Gemini 4 Argon vs Grok 4.7
Gemini 4 Argon took 13 min 43 s and $0.68 at list price, Grok 4.7 took 18 min 1 s and $0.63 at list price. Grok 4.7 took 1.3× as long, and Gemini 4 Argon cost 1.1× as much.
Gemini 4 Argon
Google · $10.00/M out · 2,036 HN pts
Grok 4.7
xAI · $6.00/M out · 629 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.
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.
Patchbay is a three-person studio in Rotterdam devoted to the repair of vintage synthesizers. We work on instruments that have already lived a long life on stages, in studios, and in spare rooms, and we treat each one as something worth keeping rather than replacing. Our benches are set up for careful diagnosis, component-level repair, and the slow work of bringing an old circuit back into reliable use.
The three of us share the shop, the tools, and the jobs. One person may trace a failing voice while another sources a part or recalibrates an oscillator; we pass instruments between us until the sound is right and the hardware is stable. Clients come to us with analog polys, early digital machines, drum boxes, and the odd modular that has been patched and repatched for decades. We listen first, then open the case.
We are not a museum and we are not a showroom. Patchbay exists so that working musicians, collectors, and curious owners in Rotterdam and beyond can keep playing the instruments they already love.
Specs and numbers
| Gemini 4 Argon | Grok 4.7 | |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | xAI | |
| Made in | US | US |
| Released | 13 Oct 2026 | 21 Sep 2026 |
| Price in, per M tokens | $2.00 | $2.00 |
| Price out, per M tokens | $10.00 | $6.00 |
| Context | 1,048,576 tokens | 500,000 tokens |
| Weights | closed | closed |
| Hacker News points | 2,036 | 629 |
| Time for the six prompts | 13 min 43 s | 18 min 1 s |
| List price of the six prompts | $0.68 | $0.63 |
Grok 4.7 was cheaper: $0.051 less at list price, and less on 3 of the 6 prompts. Gemini 4 Argon was faster: 4 min 18 s less in total, and faster on 3 of the 6 prompts.
In the recording, both Breakout games play.
Rebuild this screen experiment: Gemini 4 Argon's rebuild matched the screenshot at 69%, Grok 4.7's 59%. Tea Garden experiment: Gemini 4 Argon's game passed 5 of 5 checks, Grok 4.7's 5 of 5.