MiMo v2.6 Pro vs MiniMax M3
MiMo v2.6 Pro took 36 min 46 s and $0.12 at list price, MiniMax M3 took 33 min 3 s and $0.21 at list price. MiMo v2.6 Pro took 1.1× as long, and MiniMax M3 cost 1.7× as much.
MiMo v2.6 Pro
Xiaomi · $0.87/M out · 169 HN pts
MiniMax M3
MiniMax · $1.2/M out · 144 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 dedicated to the repair and restoration of vintage synthesizers. We spend our days with soldering irons and oscilloscopes, coaxing life back into instruments that were built to last and mostly did, until they didn't.
Between us we cover decades of combined experience with analog and early digital circuitry, from the classics of Roland, Korg, Moog, and ARP to the odd, wonderful machines that never made it big. We treat every repair with the same care, whether it's a flagship polysynth or a broken drum machine with a devoted following.
Our workshop sits in the west of the city. You're welcome to visit — bring the instrument, bring the story behind it. We like hearing both.
What we don't know we research, and what we can't source we sometimes fabricate. Nothing gets written off before we've tried.
Patchbay began in a cluttered apartment in Rotterdam, where three friends spent weekends coaxing old synthesizers back to life. What started as a shared obsession quickly outgrew the living room. In 2016, we opened our first proper workshop in a converted warehouse on the south side of the city, and we have been soldering, calibrating, and listening closely ever since.
We are a small team of three. Niels handles the analog work, coaxing warm tones from aging oscillators and reluctant filters. Marijn focuses on digital systems and the occasional stubborn MIDI quirk. Sanna manages restorations, sourcing rare components and keeping long projects on track. Between us, we have decades of experience with the machines that shaped electronic music.
Every synth that passes through our doors carries decades of sound inside it. Our job is to make sure that story continues.
Specs and numbers
| MiMo v2.6 Pro | MiniMax M3 | |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | Xiaomi | MiniMax |
| Made in | China | China |
| Released | 21 Sep 2026 | 31 May 2026 |
| Price in, per M tokens | $0.435 | $0.3 |
| Price out, per M tokens | $0.87 | $1.2 |
| Context | 1,050,000 tokens | 1,048,576 tokens |
| Weights | open | open |
| Hacker News points | 169 | 144 |
| Time for the six prompts | 36 min 46 s | 33 min 3 s |
| List price of the six prompts | $0.12 | $0.21 |
MiMo v2.6 Pro was cheaper: $0.089 less at list price, and less on 5 of the 6 prompts. MiniMax M3 was faster: 3 min 43 s less in total, and faster on 3 of the 6 prompts.
In the recording, both Breakout games play.