Gemini 4 Argon vs Ling 3.1 Flash
Gemini 4 Argon took 13 min 43 s and $0.68 at list price, Ling 3.1 Flash took 75 min 28 s and $0.055 at list price. Ling 3.1 Flash took 5.5× as long, and Gemini 4 Argon cost 12× as much.
Gemini 4 Argon
Google · $10.00/M out · 2,036 HN pts
Ling 3.1 Flash
inclusionAI · $0.225/M out · 1 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 small repair studio in Rotterdam dedicated to keeping vintage synthesizers alive. We are three people — a technician, a historian, and a musician — who believe that the instruments built in the 1960s, 70s, and 80s still have decades of sound left in them, if someone is willing to care for them properly.
We work on everything from early Moogs and Arps to Roland Junos and Oberheim OB-series, handling everything from dead power supplies and leaky batteries to full recaps and voice board restoration. Our workshop is small by design. We take on a limited number of instruments at a time, which means every synth that comes through our door gets our full attention.
Most of our clients are working musicians, collectors, and small studios across Europe, but we also welcome instruments with stories we'd love to hear. If you have a piece of synth history that needs care, we'd be glad to talk.
Specs and numbers
| Gemini 4 Argon | Ling 3.1 Flash | |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | inclusionAI | |
| Made in | US | China |
| Released | 13 Oct 2026 | 2 Oct 2026 |
| Price in, per M tokens | $2.00 | $0.075 |
| Price out, per M tokens | $10.00 | $0.225 |
| Context | 1,048,576 tokens | 1,000,000 tokens |
| Weights | closed | closed |
| Hacker News points | 2,036 | 1 |
| Time for the six prompts | 13 min 43 s | 75 min 28 s |
| List price of the six prompts | $0.68 | $0.055 |
Ling 3.1 Flash was cheaper: $0.62 less at list price, and less on each of the 6 prompts. Gemini 4 Argon was faster: 61 min 45 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%; Ling 3.1 Flash was not in it. Tea Garden experiment: Gemini 4 Argon's game passed 5 of 5 checks; Ling 3.1 Flash was not in it.