Gemini 4 Hydrogen vs DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017
Gemini 4 Hydrogen took 8 min 39 s and $0.60 at list price, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 took 7 min 16 s and $0.068 at list price. Gemini 4 Hydrogen took 1.2× as long and cost 8.9× as much.
Gemini 4 Hydrogen
Google · $7.50/M out · 168 HN pts
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017
DeepSeek · $0.60/M out · 1,717 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 corner of Rotterdam, surrounded by the scent of warm solder and the hum of calibrated oscillators, Patchbay brings classic electronic instruments back to life. We are a three-person studio united by an obsession with vintage synthesizers and the belief that these machines belong under musicians' hands, not gathering dust in storage.
Every synthesizer that crosses our workbench carries decades of history, along with brittle capacitors, worn contacts, and drifting tuning. Whether we are facing a temperamental analog polysynth from the seventies or an early digital classic, we approach each repair with patience and precision. We do not believe in quick fixes. Instead, we study original schematics, source elusive components, and meticulously restore every circuit, keybed, and fader until the instrument plays as reliably as the day it was built. Patchbay exists to keep these irreplaceable voices singing for the next generation of artists.
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.
Specs and numbers
| Gemini 4 Hydrogen | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 | |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | DeepSeek | |
| Made in | US | China |
| Released | 12 Nov 2026 | 17 Oct 2026 |
| Price in, per M tokens | $1.50 | $0.15 |
| Price out, per M tokens | $7.50 | $0.60 |
| Context | 1,048,576 tokens | 1,048,576 tokens |
| Weights | closed | open |
| Hacker News points | 168 | 1,717 |
| Time for the six prompts | 8 min 39 s | 7 min 16 s |
| List price of the six prompts | $0.60 | $0.068 |
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 was cheaper: $0.54 less at list price, and less on each of the 6 prompts. DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 was faster: 83 s less in total, and faster on 4 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 Hydrogen was not in it. Tea Garden experiment: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017's game passed 5 of 5 checks; Gemini 4 Hydrogen was not in it.





