Muse Spark Open vs MiMo v2.6 Flash
Muse Spark Open took 9 min 38 s and $0.29 at list price, MiMo v2.6 Flash took 24 min 20 s and $0.040 at list price. MiMo v2.6 Flash took 2.5× as long, and Muse Spark Open cost 7.1× as much.
Muse Spark Open
Meta · $4.25/M out · 1,383 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 is a small studio in Rotterdam where vintage synthesizers come back to life. We are three technicians, musicians and longtime collectors who have spent the last decade trading schematics, hunting spare parts, and learning the quirks of every oscillator and filter that has passed through our hands.
What started as helping friends keep their Junos and ARPs in tune has grown into a dedicated workshop in the north of the city. We repair, restore and service instruments from the sixties to the early nineties, from well-known classics to rare prototypes that barely left the factory.
We believe these machines are more than equipment. They carry histories, imperfections and sounds that cannot be replaced. Our job is to respect that character while making sure each instrument is reliable, playable, and ready for another lifetime of music.
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
| Muse Spark Open | MiMo v2.6 Flash | |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | Meta | Xiaomi |
| Made in | US | China |
| Released | 15 Oct 2026 | 21 Sep 2026 |
| Price in, per M tokens | $1.25 | $0.14 |
| Price out, per M tokens | $4.25 | $0.28 |
| Context | 1,048,576 tokens | 1,050,000 tokens |
| Weights | open | open |
| Hacker News points | 1,383 | 5 |
| Time for the six prompts | 9 min 38 s | 24 min 20 s |
| List price of the six prompts | $0.29 | $0.040 |
MiMo v2.6 Flash was cheaper: $0.25 less at list price, and less on each of the 6 prompts. Muse Spark Open was faster: 14 min 42 s less in total, and faster on 4 of the 6 prompts.
In the recording, Muse Spark Open's Breakout game plays; MiMo v2.6 Flash's stopped painting.
Rebuild this screen experiment: Muse Spark Open's rebuild matched the screenshot at 53%; MiMo v2.6 Flash was not in it. Tea Garden experiment: Muse Spark Open's game passed 5 of 5 checks; MiMo v2.6 Flash was not in it.





