Gemini 4 Hydrogen vs Particle-1
Gemini 4 Hydrogen took 8 min 39 s and $0.60 at list price, Particle-1 took 7 min 13 s and $0.056 at list price. Gemini 4 Hydrogen took 1.2× as long and cost 11× as much.
Gemini 4 Hydrogen
Google · $7.50/M out · 1,026 HN pts
Particle-1
Particle AI · $0.50/M out · free route · 20 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 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.
Patchbay is a three-person studio in Rotterdam dedicated to the repair and restoration of vintage synthesizers. We are engineers, musicians, and collectors who believe these instruments are not museum pieces but tools meant to be played, heard, and trusted on stage or in the studio. Our bench has seen everything from stubborn Moogs and fragile ARP boards to polysynths with corroded traces and keyboards that have traveled too many miles. We approach each repair with patience, documentation, and respect for the original design, while making sensible updates only where reliability demands them. Because we are a small team, you work directly with the person handling your instrument, from the first diagnosis to the final calibration. We also advise on maintenance, source hard-to-find parts, and help you decide when a repair is worthwhile. Patchbay exists to keep old synthesizers making new music.
Specs and numbers
| Gemini 4 Hydrogen | Particle-1 | |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | Particle AI | |
| Made in | US | — |
| Released | 12 Nov 2026 | 28 Oct 2026 |
| Price in, per M tokens | $1.50 | free route (list $0.05/M) |
| Price out, per M tokens | $7.50 | free route (list $0.50/M) |
| Context | 1,048,576 tokens | 1,048,576 tokens |
| Weights | closed | closed |
| Hacker News points | 1,026 | 20 |
| Time for the six prompts | 8 min 39 s | 7 min 13 s |
| List price of the six prompts | $0.60 | $0.056 |
Particle-1 was cheaper: $0.55 less at list price, and less on each of the 6 prompts. Particle-1 was faster: 86 s less in total, and faster on 4 of the 6 prompts.
In the recording, both Breakout games play.





