DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 vs MiMo v2.6 Pro
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 took 7 min 16 s and $0.068 at list price, MiMo v2.6 Pro took 36 min 46 s and $0.12 at list price. MiMo v2.6 Pro took 5.1× as long and cost 1.8× as much.
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017
DeepSeek · $0.60/M out · 1,693 HN pts
MiMo v2.6 Pro
Xiaomi · $0.87/M out · 169 HN pts
Pelican
Generate an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle
Watch
Draw a mechanical wristwatch that shows the current local time, with a sweeping seconds hand and a date window. Make it look expensive.
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.
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.
Logo
Design a logo for Night Heron, an independent bookshop that only opens after dark.
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.
Patchbay is a three-person studio in Rotterdam dedicated to the repair and restoration of vintage synthesizers. We spend our days with soldering irons and oscilloscopes, coaxing life back into instruments that were built to last and mostly did, until they didn't.
Between us we cover decades of combined experience with analog and early digital circuitry, from the classics of Roland, Korg, Moog, and ARP to the odd, wonderful machines that never made it big. We treat every repair with the same care, whether it's a flagship polysynth or a broken drum machine with a devoted following.
Our workshop sits in the west of the city. You're welcome to visit — bring the instrument, bring the story behind it. We like hearing both.
What we don't know we research, and what we can't source we sometimes fabricate. Nothing gets written off before we've tried.
Specs and numbers
| DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 | MiMo v2.6 Pro | |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | DeepSeek | Xiaomi |
| Made in | China | China |
| Released | 17 Oct 2026 | 21 Sep 2026 |
| Price in, per M tokens | $0.15 | $0.435 |
| Price out, per M tokens | $0.60 | $0.87 |
| Context | 1,048,576 tokens | 1,050,000 tokens |
| Weights | open | open |
| Hacker News points | 1,693 | 169 |
| Time for the six prompts | 7 min 16 s | 36 min 46 s |
| List price of the six prompts | $0.068 | $0.12 |
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 was cheaper: $0.053 less at list price, and less on 5 of the 6 prompts. DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 was faster: 29 min 30 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%; MiMo v2.6 Pro was not in it. Tea Garden experiment: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017's game passed 5 of 5 checks; MiMo v2.6 Pro was not in it.