Mercury 3 vs MiMo v2.6 Pro
Mercury 3 took 7 min 31 s and $0.065 at list price, MiMo v2.6 Pro took 36 min 46 s and $0.12 at list price. MiMo v2.6 Pro took 4.9× as long and cost 1.9× as much.
Mercury 3
Inception · $0.35/M out · 258 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 repair studio in Rotterdam, tucked between a bike shop and a coffee roastery, where vintage synthesizers come to live another life. We are not a factory and we are not a museum; we are technicians who love the smell of warm solder and the patience that old circuits demand. Between us we have restored everything from early Moog modulars to battered Junos, and we treat each instrument as if it were the first one we ever opened. There is no assembly line here. Every capacitor is tested, every busbar tracked by hand, and every voice board is listened to twice—once on the bench, once through the speakers of the synth that will use it. Patchbay exists because these machines deserve more than a quick fix. They deserve someone who knows their quirks, their failures, and the strange, beautiful sounds that made us fall in love with them in the first place.
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
| Mercury 3 | MiMo v2.6 Pro | |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | Inception | Xiaomi |
| Made in | US | China |
| Released | 16 Oct 2026 | 21 Sep 2026 |
| Price in, per M tokens | $0.10 | $0.435 |
| Price out, per M tokens | $0.35 | $0.87 |
| Context | 1,000,000 tokens | 1,050,000 tokens |
| Weights | closed | open |
| Hacker News points | 258 | 169 |
| Time for the six prompts | 7 min 31 s | 36 min 46 s |
| List price of the six prompts | $0.065 | $0.12 |
Mercury 3 was cheaper: $0.057 less at list price, and less on 3 of the 6 prompts. Mercury 3 was faster: 29 min 15 s less in total, and faster on each of the 6 prompts.
In the recording, Mercury 3's Breakout game stopped painting; MiMo v2.6 Pro's plays.