Side-by-side comparison of MiMo-V2.5 (Xiaomi (MiMo)) and Qwen3.6-35B-A3B (Alibaba Cloud (Qwen) · China) for self-hosted deployment of the open-weight model. MiMo-V2.5 is rated conditional; Qwen3.6-35B-A3B is conditional. They part ways on licence: MiMo-V2.5 is "MIT", Qwen3.6-35B-A3B is "Apache 2.0".
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| Summary | ||
| Verdict | Conditional MiMo-V2.5 is the omnimodal sibling of MiMo-V2.5-Pro — text, vision, audio, and video on a single sparse-MoE backbone, also under MIT. Same posture as the Pro: deployable weights, but the China origin and stage-level training disclosure mean any EU rollout needs self-hosting plus a deployer-prepared GPAI compliance file, with extra attention to Article 50 transparency for synthetic and biometric outputs. | Conditional Based on published licence terms, Qwen3.6-35B-A3B ships under Apache 2.0 with no use restrictions, making self-hosted commercial deployment viable. However, opaque training-data disclosure and Chinese origin create EU AI Act Art. 53 transparency and data-transfer risks that deployers should document before placing personal data into prompts. |
| Last reviewed | 2026-04-28 | 2026-04-17 |
| Open-weight | ||
| Licence | MIT | Apache 2.0 |
| Commercial use | Unrestricted | Unrestricted |
| Training data | Categories only | Undisclosed |
| Origin | China | China (Hangzhou) |
| Performance & pricing? | ||
| Quality index | 49/100 | 44/100 |
| Speed | — | 238 tok/s |
| Blended price | — | $0.84/M |
| Context window | — | — |
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