Mistral Large 4 vs MiMo v2.6 Flash
Mistral Large 4 took 51 min 22 s and $0.61 at list price, MiMo v2.6 Flash took 24 min 20 s and $0.040 at list price. Mistral Large 4 took 2.1× as long and cost 15× as much.
Mistral Large 4
Mistral · $2.10/M out · 4,680 HN pts
MiMo v2.6 Flash
Xiaomi · $0.28/M out · 5 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 sits in a former warehouse on Rotterdam's northern edge, where the Maas meets the industrial harbour. Three of us work here—no more, no less—surrounded by oscilloscopes, desoldering stations, and the persistent hum of transformers. We repair vintage synthesizers. That is the whole business.
We are not a museum, and we are not a factory. Every Minimoog, ARP 2600, or Juno that crosses our bench receives the same stubborn attention: traced schematics, replaced capacitors, calibrated voltages, hours spent listening for the note that was never quite right. The machines arrive broken, silent, forgotten. They leave singing.
Rotterdam built its reputation on moving heavy things and keeping them moving. We apply the same pragmatism to circuits that predate us by forty years. If it made sound once, it can make sound again. That is the promise we keep, solder joint by solder joint.
Patchbay is a three-person studio in Rotterdam dedicated to the repair and restoration of vintage synthesizers. We work on instruments that have been sitting in attics, basements, and rehearsal rooms for decades — the ones that hum when they shouldn't, lose their voice, or refuse to power on at all. Our approach is patient and detail-oriented. We trace faults through aging circuit boards, source period-correct components when possible, and treat every repair as a conversation with the person who built the instrument, and the musicians who played it before it fell silent.
We believe these machines deserve to stay in circulation rather than end up in landfill. Whether it is a Moog, a Juno, or a machine you cannot name, bring it in and we will tell you honestly what it needs.
Specs and numbers
| Mistral Large 4 | MiMo v2.6 Flash | |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | Mistral | Xiaomi |
| Made in | France | China |
| Released | 6 Oct 2026 | 21 Sep 2026 |
| Price in, per M tokens | $0.70 | $0.14 |
| Price out, per M tokens | $2.10 | $0.28 |
| Context | 1,048,576 tokens | 1,050,000 tokens |
| Weights | open | open |
| Hacker News points | 4,680 | 5 |
| Time for the six prompts | 51 min 22 s | 24 min 20 s |
| List price of the six prompts | $0.61 | $0.040 |
MiMo v2.6 Flash was cheaper: $0.57 less at list price, and less on each of the 6 prompts. MiMo v2.6 Flash was faster: 27 min 2 s less in total, and faster on 3 of the 6 prompts.
In the recording, Mistral Large 4's Breakout game plays; MiMo v2.6 Flash's stopped painting.
Rebuild this screen experiment: Mistral Large 4's rebuild matched the screenshot at 46%; MiMo v2.6 Flash was not in it. Tea Garden experiment: Mistral Large 4's game passed 2 of 5 checks; MiMo v2.6 Flash was not in it.