Glimpse vs Grok 4.7
Glimpse took 8 min 32 s and $0.34 at list price, Grok 4.7 took 18 min 1 s and $0.63 at list price. Grok 4.7 took 2.1× as long and cost 1.9× as much.
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 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.
Patchbay is a three-person studio in Rotterdam devoted to the repair of vintage synthesizers. We work on instruments that have already lived a long life on stages, in studios, and in spare rooms, and we treat each one as something worth keeping rather than replacing. Our benches are set up for careful diagnosis, component-level repair, and the slow work of bringing an old circuit back into reliable use.
The three of us share the shop, the tools, and the jobs. One person may trace a failing voice while another sources a part or recalibrates an oscillator; we pass instruments between us until the sound is right and the hardware is stable. Clients come to us with analog polys, early digital machines, drum boxes, and the odd modular that has been patched and repatched for decades. We listen first, then open the case.
We are not a museum and we are not a showroom. Patchbay exists so that working musicians, collectors, and curious owners in Rotterdam and beyond can keep playing the instruments they already love.
Specs and numbers
| Glimpse | Grok 4.7 | |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | Elorian | xAI |
| Made in | US | US |
| Released | 17 Oct 2026 | 21 Sep 2026 |
| Price in, per M tokens | $0.60 | $2.00 |
| Price out, per M tokens | $3.00 | $6.00 |
| Context | 262,144 tokens | 500,000 tokens |
| Weights | closed | closed |
| Hacker News points | — | 629 |
| Time for the six prompts | 8 min 32 s | 18 min 1 s |
| List price of the six prompts | $0.34 | $0.63 |
Glimpse was cheaper: $0.29 less at list price, and less on 5 of the 6 prompts. Glimpse was faster: 9 min 28 s less in total, and faster on 5 of the 6 prompts.
In the recording, both Breakout games play.
Rebuild this screen experiment: Grok 4.7's rebuild matched the screenshot at 59%; Glimpse was not in it. Tea Garden experiment: Grok 4.7's game passed 5 of 5 checks; Glimpse was not in it.