> In your experience, is max worse or you suggest it for less token use?

Yes. DS4 Flash max is incredibly chatty for minimal gain over DS4 high.

I asked the same question a month ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47978820 and confirmed in my tests.

> ...MiMo, but since you have, do you find it to be better than DeepSeek v4?

I didn't test MiMo 2.5 enough to form a veridict but from initial tests it is equivalent to DS4. But MiMo 2.5 (non Pro) has the advantage of having vision capability and MiMo is priced equaly as DeepSeek v4 in the $10/mo OpenCode Go now, after the discount you mentioned, see the yellow bars at https://opencode.ai/go

I'll start testing MiMo seriously next week.