Gemini 4 Argon vs MiMo v2.6 Pro
Gemini 4 Argon took 13 min 43 s and $0.68 at list price, MiMo v2.6 Pro took 36 min 46 s and $0.12 at list price. MiMo v2.6 Pro took 2.7× as long, and Gemini 4 Argon cost 5.6× as much.
Gemini 4 Argon
Google · $10.00/M out · 2,036 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.
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 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
| Gemini 4 Argon | MiMo v2.6 Pro | |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | Xiaomi | |
| Made in | US | China |
| Released | 13 Oct 2026 | 21 Sep 2026 |
| Price in, per M tokens | $2.00 | $0.435 |
| Price out, per M tokens | $10.00 | $0.87 |
| Context | 1,048,576 tokens | 1,050,000 tokens |
| Weights | closed | open |
| Hacker News points | 2,036 | 169 |
| Time for the six prompts | 13 min 43 s | 36 min 46 s |
| List price of the six prompts | $0.68 | $0.12 |
MiMo v2.6 Pro was cheaper: $0.56 less at list price, and less on each of the 6 prompts. Gemini 4 Argon was faster: 23 min 3 s less in total, and faster on each 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%; MiMo v2.6 Pro was not in it. Tea Garden experiment: Gemini 4 Argon's game passed 5 of 5 checks; MiMo v2.6 Pro was not in it.