MiniMax M3.1 Flash vs Glimpse
MiniMax M3.1 Flash took 23 min 37 s and $0.095 at list price, Glimpse took 8 min 32 s and $0.34 at list price. MiniMax M3.1 Flash took 2.8× as long, and Glimpse cost 3.6× as much.
MiniMax M3.1 Flash
MiniMax · $0.60/M out · 550 HN pts
Glimpse
Elorian · $3.00/M out
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 studio in Rotterdam dedicated to bringing vintage synthesizers back to life. We repair analog and digital instruments that shaped the sound of music, from classic drum machines and polyphonic synths to quirky, characterful machines that rarely leave a musician’s side. Our work combines technical knowledge with respect for each instrument’s history, because a synth is more than a circuit board: it carries the decisions, compromises, and personality of its original design.
We diagnose faults, restore unreliable voices, and carefully service aging components without erasing the character that made an instrument worth keeping. Whether a machine has been silent for years or simply needs a thoughtful tune-up, we treat every repair as a careful act of restoration.
Based in Rotterdam, Patchbay works with musicians, studios, collectors, and anyone who believes electronic instruments deserve another chapter. We restore them to sound as they should, preserving the details that make each one unique.
Patchbay is a small repair studio in Rotterdam, built around three hands, one bench, and a shared patience for machines that should have been forgotten. We work on vintage synthesizers — the hissing, glowing, drifting instruments that shaped records decades ago and still find their way to us in boxes, corners, and half-finished projects. Some arrive dead silent. Others howl through cracked pots, sticky keys, and memories of bad rooms. We like that. Our approach is careful: diagnose, restore, and explain what we found. We replace what must be replaced, but we preserve what gives an instrument its character, including its quirks when they are honest ones. Each repair is handled directly by the three of us, from first inspection to final listening. We are not a factory and we do not rush. We are three people in Rotterdam who believe old synthesizers deserve attention, patience, and a little stubborn love.
Specs and numbers
| MiniMax M3.1 Flash | Glimpse | |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | MiniMax | Elorian |
| Made in | China | US |
| Released | 19 Oct 2026 | 17 Oct 2026 |
| Price in, per M tokens | $0.15 | $0.60 |
| Price out, per M tokens | $0.60 | $3.00 |
| Context | 1,048,576 tokens | 262,144 tokens |
| Weights | open | closed |
| Hacker News points | 550 | — |
| Time for the six prompts | 23 min 37 s | 8 min 32 s |
| List price of the six prompts | $0.095 | $0.34 |
MiniMax M3.1 Flash was cheaper: $0.24 less at list price, and less on each of the 6 prompts. Glimpse was faster: 15 min 5 s less in total, and faster on each of the 6 prompts.
In the recording, both Breakout games play.
Rebuild this screen experiment: MiniMax M3.1 Flash's rebuild matched the screenshot at 78%; Glimpse was not in it. Tea Garden experiment: MiniMax M3.1 Flash's game passed 5 of 5 checks; Glimpse was not in it.