Grok 4.7 vs Inkling
Grok 4.7 took 18 min 1 s and $0.63 at list price, Inkling took 8 min 30 s and $0.21 at list price. Grok 4.7 took 2.1× as long and cost 3.0× as much.
Grok 4.7
xAI · $6.00/M out · 629 HN pts
Inkling
Thinking Machines · $4.05/M out · free route · 4 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.
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.
Patchbay is a three-person repair studio in Rotterdam dedicated to vintage synthesizers. We work on analog circuits, replace failing capacitors and resistors, calibrate unstable oscillators, and restore instruments that have been silent for years. Our bench sees early Japanese mono synths, European string machines, American polys, and large modular systems. We treat each repair as a specific problem rather than a routine job, because these machines were built differently and fail differently. The studio grew out of our own need for careful, local repairs. Over time, musicians, collectors, and producers across the Netherlands started bringing us gear they could not trust elsewhere. We open every case with the same approach: diagnose the fault properly, use appropriate parts, and test the result thoroughly. We do not apply quick fixes or ignore underlying issues. Whether your synthesizer suffers from tuning drift, dead voices, noisy outputs, or an unknown electrical fault, we are in Rotterdam to find the cause and return it to reliable working condition.
Specs and numbers
| Grok 4.7 | Inkling | |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | xAI | Thinking Machines |
| Made in | US | US |
| Released | 21 Sep 2026 | 17 Jul 2026 |
| Price in, per M tokens | $2.00 | free route (list $1.00/M) |
| Price out, per M tokens | $6.00 | free route (list $4.05/M) |
| Context | 500,000 tokens | 524,288 tokens |
| Weights | closed | open |
| Hacker News points | 629 | 4 |
| Time for the six prompts | 18 min 1 s | 8 min 30 s |
| List price of the six prompts | $0.63 | $0.21 |
Inkling was cheaper: $0.42 less at list price, and less on 5 of the 6 prompts. Inkling was faster: 9 min 30 s less in total, and faster on 4 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%, Inkling's 51%. Tea Garden experiment: Grok 4.7's game passed 5 of 5 checks, Inkling's 5 of 5.