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Gemini 4 Hydrogen vs DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017

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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

Gemini 4 Hydrogen's SVG for the "Pelican riding a bicycle" prompt

Gemini 4 Hydrogen

58 s$0.0668.8k tokensAPI
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017's SVG for the "Pelican riding a bicycle" prompt

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017

48 s$0.00711k 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 Gemini 4 Hydrogen's page for the "Wristwatch that shows the current time" prompt

Gemini 4 Hydrogen

80 s$0.09413k tokensAPI
Still of DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017's page for the "Wristwatch that shows the current time" prompt

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017

2 min 20 s$0.01017k 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 Gemini 4 Hydrogen's page for the "Landing page for a cargo bike workshop" prompt

Gemini 4 Hydrogen

3 min 13 s$0.2331k tokensAPI
Still of DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017's page for the "Landing page for a cargo bike workshop" prompt

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017

1 min 36 s$0.02746k 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 Gemini 4 Hydrogen's page for the "Playable Breakout" prompt

Gemini 4 Hydrogen

1 min 36 s$0.1215k tokensAPI
Still of DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017's page for the "Playable Breakout" prompt

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017

69 s$0.01525k tokensAPI

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

Gemini 4 Hydrogen's SVG for the "Bookshop logo" prompt

Gemini 4 Hydrogen

73 s$0.07910k tokensAPI
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017's SVG for the "Bookshop logo" prompt

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017

76 s$0.00813k 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.

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.

Gemini 4 Hydrogen

20 s$0.0202.7k tokensAPI

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.

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017

7 s<$0.001975 tokensAPI

Specs and numbers

Gemini 4 HydrogenDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017
MakerGoogleDeepSeek
Made inUSChina
Released12 Nov 202617 Oct 2026
Price in, per M tokens$1.50$0.15
Price out, per M tokens$7.50$0.60
Context1,048,576 tokens1,048,576 tokens
Weightsclosedopen
Hacker News points1681,717
Time for the six prompts8 min 39 s7 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.

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