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DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 vs Gemini 4 Argon

6 prompts both ran·Specs and numbers·Change models

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 took 7 min 16 s and $0.068 at list price, Gemini 4 Argon took 13 min 43 s and $0.68 at list price. Gemini 4 Argon took 1.9× as long and cost 9.9× as much.

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017

DeepSeek · $0.60/M out · 1,693 HN pts

Gemini 4 Argon

Google · $10.00/M out · 2,036 HN pts

Pelican

Generate an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017's SVG for the "Pelican riding a bicycle" prompt

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017

48 s$0.00711k tokensAPI
Gemini 4 Argon's SVG for the "Pelican riding a bicycle" prompt

Gemini 4 Argon

2 min 11 s$0.1111k tokensAPI

Watch

Draw a mechanical wristwatch that shows the current local time, with a sweeping seconds hand and a date window. Make it look expensive.

Still of DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017's page for the "Wristwatch that shows the current time" prompt

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017

2 min 20 s$0.01017k tokensAPI
Still of Gemini 4 Argon's page for the "Wristwatch that shows the current time" prompt

Gemini 4 Argon

2 min 32 s$0.1313k tokensAPI

Landing

Build the landing page for Lumen Cycles, a Copenhagen workshop that builds custom cargo bikes to order. Make it look like a real brand you would trust with 4,000 euros.

Still of DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017's page for the "Landing page for a cargo bike workshop" prompt

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017

1 min 36 s$0.02746k tokensAPI
Still of Gemini 4 Argon's page for the "Landing page for a cargo bike workshop" prompt

Gemini 4 Argon

4 min 14 s$0.2121k tokensAPI

Breakout

Make a Breakout game I can play right now with the keyboard or the mouse. Give it several levels, a score and some juice.

Still of DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017's page for the "Playable Breakout" prompt

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017

69 s$0.01525k tokensAPI
Still of Gemini 4 Argon's page for the "Playable Breakout" prompt

Gemini 4 Argon

2 min 46 s$0.1414k tokensAPI

Design a logo for Night Heron, an independent bookshop that only opens after dark.

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017's SVG for the "Bookshop logo" prompt

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017

76 s$0.00813k tokensAPI
Gemini 4 Argon's SVG for the "Bookshop logo" prompt

Gemini 4 Argon

1 min 52 s$0.0929.2k tokensAPI

About

Write the opening of the About us page for Patchbay, a three-person studio in Rotterdam that repairs vintage synthesizers. About 150 words.

Patchbay is a three-person studio in Rotterdam devoted to keeping vintage synthesizers making the sounds they were built to make. We repair, service and restore analog instruments from the late 1960s onward, from familiar Moogs and ARPs to oddities with no service manual. Every synth that comes through the door is treated as a working instrument rather than a museum piece. We trace faults, rebuild power supplies, refresh capacitors, clean keybeds and calibrate oscillators, always with an eye on reliability and the character that made the machine worth saving. We document what we do, explain the options clearly and never replace more than necessary. Whether you need one dead voice brought back or a full restoration, we work carefully, at the bench and in conversation with you. Old synths belong on records and stages, and our job is to keep them there.

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017

7 s<$0.001975 tokensAPI

In a quiet industrial building overlooking the Maas, the air smells of warm dust, solder flux, and ozone. This is Patchbay, a three-person workshop in Rotterdam dedicated to keeping the golden age of electronic music alive. We don’t view vintage synthesizers as museum pieces to be locked behind glass. To us, a Roland Jupiter-8 or an ARP Odyssey is a living, breathing instrument meant to be played, gigged, and pushed to its sonic limits.

Between the three of us, we have spent decades deciphering faded schematics, hunting down obsolete transistors, and cleaning decades of club grime from beneath weighted keys. Rotterdam is a city built on raw electronics and relentless rhythms, and we take pride in keeping its hardware running. Whether you bring us a touring workhorse with a dead voice chip or a garage-find modular rig that hasn’t powered on since 1984, we are here to make it sing again.

Gemini 4 Argon

8 s$0.002196 tokensAPI

Specs and numbers

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017Gemini 4 Argon
MakerDeepSeekGoogle
Made inChinaUS
Released17 Oct 202613 Oct 2026
Price in, per M tokens$0.15$2.00
Price out, per M tokens$0.60$10.00
Context1,048,576 tokens1,048,576 tokens
Weightsopenclosed
Hacker News points1,6932,036
Time for the six prompts7 min 16 s13 min 43 s
List price of the six prompts$0.068$0.68

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 was cheaper: $0.61 less at list price, and less on each of the 6 prompts. DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 was faster: 6 min 26 s less in total, and faster on each of the 6 prompts.

In the recording, both Breakout games play.

Rebuild this screen experiment: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017's rebuild matched the screenshot at 57%, Gemini 4 Argon's 69%. Tea Garden experiment: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017's game passed 5 of 5 checks, Gemini 4 Argon's 5 of 5.

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