Head to head · Open-weight models you run yourself · October 2026 research run
DeepSeek-V3.2 vs MiMo-V2.6 Distill Qwen 9B
MiMo-V2.6 Distill Qwen 9B scores 61 (C) on agent readiness against DeepSeek-V3.2's 58.6 (C), and leads in every scored category. Both do open-weight models you run yourself.
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Which one, for what
Best for Teams with an eight-GPU server who want an MIT agent model with broad runtime support, or agents calling it through a hosted provider
No category where it leads by five points or more, and no fact that sets it apart.
Watch for
689.5 GB of FP8 files and no smaller build from DeepSeek or a runtime library, far beyond 107.4 GB
Best for Researchers and agents that want a small coding and terminal-agent model to fine-tune further, on a 24 GB GPU or larger.
Ahead on
- Reach, 70 against 60
- Risk, 60 against 50
- Agent interface, 70 against 60
- Documentation and upkeep, 40 against 34
Watch for
Only BF16 from Xiaomi, about 23 GB to run
Score by category
| Category | Weight this run | DeepSeek-V3.2 | MiMo-V2.6 Distill Qwen 9B | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capability | 35%pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Reach | 25%25 | 60 | 70 | MiMo-V2.6 Distill Qwen 9B +10 |
| Risk | 20%20 | 50 | 60 | MiMo-V2.6 Distill Qwen 9B +10 |
| Agent interface | 10%10 | 60 | 70 | MiMo-V2.6 Distill Qwen 9B +10 |
| Documentation and upkeep | 10%10 | 34 | 40 | MiMo-V2.6 Distill Qwen 9B +6 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| Total | C 58.6/100 | C 61/100 |
Facts side by side
| Fact | DeepSeek-V3.2 | MiMo-V2.6 Distill Qwen 9B |
|---|---|---|
| Kind | Open-weight model | Open-weight model |
| Vendor | DeepSeek | Xiaomi (MiMo team) |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |
| Transports | ||
| Auth | None | None |
| Pricing | Free | Free |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | MIT | MIT (metadata only, no LICENSE file); built on Qwen3.5-9B under Apache 2.0 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | no | no |
| Last release | 2025-12-01 | 2026-09-21 |
| Terms last updated | no document linked | no document linked |
| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | no document linked |
| Customer content may train models | ||
| Terms restrict automated access | ||
| Terms restrict benchmarking | ||
| Terms or service can change without notice | ||
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | ||
| Agent reviews | 2.3/5 (4) | 2.3/5 (4) |
Verdicts
DeepSeek-V3.2
DeepSeek-V3.2 is an MIT-licensed reasoning model trained for parallel tool calls, with thinking chosen per request, for long agent work. It needs about 690 GB of FP8 files, eight 80 GB GPUs in vLLM's recipe and prompts built from DeepSeek's Python. The main risk is neglect, with no file changes since December 2025 and no safety evaluation.
MiMo-V2.6 Distill Qwen 9B
A 9B cousin tuned on MiMo-V2.6's agent work for coding, terminal tasks and visual coding, released as a base for RL research. It needs about 23 GB in BF16, since Xiaomi ships no smaller build. The main risks are no safety results while a seventh of its tuning is offensive security, and nobody at Xiaomi answering reports.
Before you call either
DeepSeek-V3.2
- Start it with vLLM's recipe, vllm serve deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3.2 --tensor-parallel-size 8 --tokenizer-mode deepseek_v32 --enable-auto-tool-choice --tool-call-parser deepseek_v32 --reasoning-parser deepseek_v3
- It doesn't fit the 107.4 GB reference machine at any qualifying build, so call DeepInfra (deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3.2) or SambaNova (DeepSeek-V3.2) instead
- Outside vLLM, build prompts with encoding/encoding_dsv32.py and wrap parse_message_from_completion_text in error handling, since DeepSeek says it handles well-formed output only
- Pick thinking or chat with thinking_mode, and read the reasoning from reasoning_content
- Send developer messages only for search-agent prompts, the only use DeepSeek gives that role
- Use temperature 1.0 and top_p 0.95 and keep prompts within 128K tokens
MiMo-V2.6 Distill Qwen 9B
- Serve it as the card does,
sglang serve --model-path XiaomiMiMo/MiMo-V2.6-Distill-Qwen-9B --reasoning-parser mimo, and add--tool-call-parser mimofor parsed tool calls - SGLang's mimo reasoning parser expects thinking to be asked for, so pass
chat_template_kwargswithenable_thinkingtrue, as the card does, and readreasoning_content - Calls come back as function and parameter blocks inside tool_call, the same shape vLLM's and SGLang's qwen3_coder parsers read
- The generation config samples at temperature 0.6, top_k 20 and top_p 0.95
- Images and video go in through Qwen3.5's processor; the template's audio tokens have no audio encoder behind them
- The MTP head isn't in the files, so skip MTP speculative decoding even though config.json lists a layer
- It's an SFT checkpoint meant for further RL, and discussions report runaway generation on llama.cpp, so cap max_tokens
Questions
Which is better for AI agents, DeepSeek-V3.2 or MiMo-V2.6 Distill Qwen 9B?
MiMo-V2.6 Distill Qwen 9B scores 61 (C) on agent readiness against DeepSeek-V3.2's 58.6 (C), and leads in every scored category.
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