On June 10, 2026, Xiaomi’s MiMo AI team open-sourced MiMo Code V0.1.0 — a terminal-native coding agent built on a fork of OpenCode that adds a persistent cross-session memory architecture designed to keep long agentic tasks from losing context.
The headline claim: 62% on SWE-Bench Pro vs Claude Code’s 57%, and a 65%+ win rate in head-to-head human evaluation once tasks exceed 200 execution steps. Those are vendor self-reported numbers. But the methodology behind them is more interesting than the headline — and the memory architecture is the actual story.
What MiMo Code Is
MiMo Code is a fork of the MIT-licensed OpenCode agent, extended with three additions Xiaomi built on top of the base framework:
- Four-layer cross-session memory using SQLite FTS5, with a dedicated checkpoint-writer subagent that persists task state between sessions
- MiMo Auto — a free, zero-configuration model access channel bundling MiMo-V2.5-Pro
- Support for any OpenAI-compatible provider via the TUI, so you can point it at the model you already use
The base OpenCode agent is model-agnostic, MIT-licensed, and terminal-first. MiMo Code inherits all of that and adds memory persistence on top.
The Memory Architecture
Every coding agent has the same failure mode on long tasks: context accumulates, compresses, or gets dropped as the session grows. At 200+ execution steps — think multi-file refactors, extended debugging sessions, or build pipelines that span hours — the agent starts losing track of decisions made twenty turns earlier.
MiMo Code addresses this with a four-layer cross-session memory stored in SQLite with FTS5 full-text indexing:
| Layer | What it stores |
|---|---|
| Task memory | The goal, constraints, and current plan for the active job |
| File memory | Which files were touched, why, and what changed |
| Decision memory | Forks in the road: why this approach over that one |
| Error memory | What failed, the error text, and what fixed it |
A dedicated checkpoint-writer subagent runs in parallel with the main agent, writing to these layers at intervals so that a session interruption — network drop, timeout, manual kill — doesn’t erase the work. On restart, MiMo Code reads the checkpoint state and resumes from where it stopped rather than starting over.
This is an architectural choice Claude Code does not currently make. Claude Code compacts context as sessions grow, which reduces token costs but loses granular decision history.
The Benchmark Claims (and What They Actually Measure)
Xiaomi reports two benchmark comparisons:
- SWE-Bench Pro: MiMo Code 62% vs Claude Code 57%
- Terminal Bench 2: MiMo Code 73% vs Claude Code 68%
There’s an important methodological note: these numbers compare MiMo Code with MiMo-V2.5-Pro against Claude Code with MiMo-V2.5-Pro. The same underlying model runs in both harnesses. This is actually a cleaner experiment than it might first appear — it isolates the scaffolding difference from the model difference. The question being answered is “does MiMo Code’s harness architecture outperform Claude Code’s harness when the model is held constant?”
The answer, per Xiaomi’s own evaluation: yes, by 5-8 percentage points on these benchmarks.
What this does not tell you is how MiMo Code with MiMo-V2.5-Pro compares to Claude Code with Sonnet 4.6 or Opus 4.6 — because those are different models with different raw capabilities. If the model you care about is Claude, MiMo Code’s harness advantage doesn’t automatically transfer.
The human A/B evaluation of 576 developers showing 65%+ win rate at 200+ steps is harder to dismiss, though. That’s measuring real task completion preference, not a benchmark score. The 40-60% token reduction is also practical: if you’re running very long agentic sessions, you’re paying meaningfully less per task.
Installation and Configuration
MiMo Code installs via npm:
npm install -g @mimo-ai/cli
For free access with MiMo-V2.5-Pro:
mimo --auto
This uses the MiMo Auto channel — zero configuration, free during the preview period, limited to MiMo-V2.5-Pro.
To use your own model provider (any OpenAI-compatible endpoint):
mimo --provider openrouter --model xiaomi/mimo-v2.5-pro
The TUI accepts any OpenAI-compatible provider. You can point it at OpenRouter, Novita, the native xAI API, or your own deployment.
Pricing when you bring your own provider:
- Via OpenRouter: $0.435/M input, $0.87/M output
- Via Novita: $2/M input, $6/M output
- Direct MiMo API: check current rates at the MiMo console
Capabilities
MiMo Code supports the terminal agent standard feature set:
- Code reading and writing — inspect repos, edit files, run diffs
- Command execution — shell, git, build tools
- Cross-session memory — the key differentiator
- Custom provider support — any OpenAI-compatible endpoint
- Multimodal input — image context via MiMo-V2.5-Pro’s 1M token context window
What V0.1.0 does not include:
- LSP integration (available in base OpenCode; not yet ported)
- MCP server support (not listed in V0.1.0 feature set)
- IDE extensions (terminal-only for now)
- Multi-agent parallelism (sequential execution in V0.1.0)
The absence of MCP support is worth noting. Claude Code’s MCP integration lets you connect agents to your internal tools, APIs, and data sources through MCP servers. MiMo Code V0.1.0 doesn’t have this — so if your workflow depends on MCP tool-calling, it’s not a direct substitute.
Claude Code vs MiMo Code: When to Use Which
| Scenario | Claude Code | MiMo Code |
|---|---|---|
| Tasks under 100 steps | ✓ Established, well-supported | Works, but memory advantage unused |
| Tasks over 200 steps | Context compaction may lose history | Cross-session memory designed for this |
| Claude model quality matters | ✓ Native | Possible via provider config |
| MCP tool integration required | ✓ Full support | Not in V0.1.0 |
| Open source requirement | Not open source | ✓ MIT licensed |
| Cost sensitivity at scale | Premium pricing | 40-60% fewer tokens in testing |
| Enterprise compliance artifacts | Claude Code + Bedrock/Vertex | Not yet |
| Free experimentation | Free tier limited | MiMo Auto free during preview |
The clearest use case for MiMo Code today: long-horizon agentic workflows where session continuity is a real problem, you’re comfortable with the MiMo-V2.5-Pro model quality, and you don’t need MCP integration or Claude’s specific strengths.
Stay on Claude Code if: you need MCP integration, you need Claude’s model quality (especially on complex reasoning or code), or you’re running enterprise deployments where compliance and auditability matter.
V0.1.0 Is Early
The .0.1.0 version tag means what it says. MiMo Code is very new as of June 10, and several things that experienced builders will reach for — MCP, LSP, parallel agents — are not there yet. The cross-session memory architecture is the genuine differentiator. Whether that differentiator justifies switching from your existing tool depends on whether you’re actually hitting the 200-step context problem in production.
If you run long agentic workflows and haven’t tried persistent cross-session memory in your harness, MiMo Code is worth the install to evaluate. If your tasks are shorter or your MCP integration is load-bearing, wait for V0.2.0 or later.
Sources: VentureBeat — MiMo Code launch | TechTimes — benchmark caveat | LLMReference
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