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MiMo v2.6 Flash vs Hy4 Preview

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MiMo v2.6 Flash took 24 min 20 s and $0.040 at list price, Hy4 Preview took 34 min 52 s and $0.32 at list price. Hy4 Preview took 1.4× as long and cost 8.0× as much.

MiMo v2.6 Flash

Xiaomi · $0.28/M out · 5 HN pts

Hy4 Preview

Tencent · $2.50/M out · 440 HN pts

Pelican

Generate an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle

MiMo v2.6 Flash's SVG for the "Pelican riding a bicycle" prompt

MiMo v2.6 Flash

52 s$0.00311k tokensAPI
Hy4 Preview's SVG for the "Pelican riding a bicycle" prompt

Hy4 Preview

4 min 30 s$0.06727k tokensAPI

Watch

Draw a mechanical wristwatch that shows the current local time, with a sweeping seconds hand and a date window. Make it look expensive.

Still of MiMo v2.6 Flash's page for the "Wristwatch that shows the current time" prompt

MiMo v2.6 Flash

11 min 19 s$0.01450k tokensAPI
Still of Hy4 Preview's page for the "Wristwatch that shows the current time" prompt

Hy4 Preview

44 s$0.0114.2k tokensAPI

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.

Still of MiMo v2.6 Flash's page for the "Landing page for a cargo bike workshop" prompt

MiMo v2.6 Flash

8 min 49 s$0.01346k tokensAPI
Still of Hy4 Preview's page for the "Landing page for a cargo bike workshop" prompt

Hy4 Preview

7 min 45 s$0.06225k tokensAPI

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.

Still of MiMo v2.6 Flash's page for the "Playable Breakout" prompt

MiMo v2.6 Flash

44 s$0.00621k tokensAPI
Still of Hy4 Preview's page for the "Playable Breakout" prompt

Hy4 Preview

12 min 37 s$0.1145k tokensAPI

Design a logo for Night Heron, an independent bookshop that only opens after dark.

MiMo v2.6 Flash's SVG for the "Bookshop logo" prompt

MiMo v2.6 Flash

2 min 23 s$0.00416k tokensAPI
Hy4 Preview's SVG for the "Bookshop logo" prompt

Hy4 Preview

7 min 58 s$0.06024k tokensAPI

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 dedicated to the repair and restoration of vintage synthesizers. We work on instruments that have been sitting in attics, basements, and rehearsal rooms for decades — the ones that hum when they shouldn't, lose their voice, or refuse to power on at all. Our approach is patient and detail-oriented. We trace faults through aging circuit boards, source period-correct components when possible, and treat every repair as a conversation with the person who built the instrument, and the musicians who played it before it fell silent.

We believe these machines deserve to stay in circulation rather than end up in landfill. Whether it is a Moog, a Juno, or a machine you cannot name, bring it in and we will tell you honestly what it needs.

MiMo v2.6 Flash

13 s<$0.001178 tokensAPI

Patchbay is a three-person studio in Rotterdam with a very specific obsession: bringing vintage synthesizers back to life. We are three technicians and musicians who spend our days surrounded by circuit boards, calibration tapes, and the smell of solder, coaxing sound out of machines that have been silent for years. From wobbly oscillators and dead keys to crackling faders and drifting filters, we diagnose, repair, and restore analog instruments with the patience they deserve. Our workshop is stocked with rare spare parts, original service manuals, and a deep archive of hard-won knowledge about classics from Moog, Roland, Sequential, Korg, and ARP. We love these instruments not as museum pieces, but as living tools that still have music in them. Every synthesizer that leaves our bench is tested, played, and calibrated so it feels reliable enough for the stage, the studio, or the late-night jam that inspired it in the first place.

Hy4 Preview

79 s$0.0125.0k tokensAPI

Specs and numbers

MiMo v2.6 FlashHy4 Preview
MakerXiaomiTencent
Made inChinaChina
Released21 Sep 202628 Aug 2026
Price in, per M tokens$0.14$0.834
Price out, per M tokens$0.28$2.50
Context1,050,000 tokens1,048,576 tokens
Weightsopenopen
Hacker News points5440
Time for the six prompts24 min 20 s34 min 52 s
List price of the six prompts$0.040$0.32

MiMo v2.6 Flash was cheaper: $0.28 less at list price, and less on 5 of the 6 prompts. MiMo v2.6 Flash was faster: 10 min 32 s less in total, and faster on 4 of the 6 prompts.

In the recording, MiMo v2.6 Flash's Breakout game stopped painting; Hy4 Preview's loads but doesn't start.

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