Muse Spark Open vs MiMo v2.6 Pro
Muse Spark Open took 9 min 38 s and $0.29 at list price, MiMo v2.6 Pro took 36 min 46 s and $0.12 at list price. MiMo v2.6 Pro took 3.8× as long, and Muse Spark Open cost 2.4× as much.
Muse Spark Open
Meta · $4.25/M out · 1,383 HN pts
MiMo v2.6 Pro
Xiaomi · $0.87/M out · 169 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 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.
Specs and numbers
| Muse Spark Open | MiMo v2.6 Pro | |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | Meta | Xiaomi |
| Made in | US | China |
| Released | 15 Oct 2026 | 21 Sep 2026 |
| Price in, per M tokens | $1.25 | $0.435 |
| Price out, per M tokens | $4.25 | $0.87 |
| Context | 1,048,576 tokens | 1,050,000 tokens |
| Weights | open | open |
| Hacker News points | 1,383 | 169 |
| Time for the six prompts | 9 min 38 s | 36 min 46 s |
| List price of the six prompts | $0.29 | $0.12 |
MiMo v2.6 Pro was cheaper: $0.17 less at list price, and less on each of the 6 prompts. Muse Spark Open was faster: 27 min 8 s less in total, and faster on each of the 6 prompts.
In the recording, both Breakout games play.
Rebuild this screen experiment: Muse Spark Open's rebuild matched the screenshot at 53%; MiMo v2.6 Pro was not in it. Tea Garden experiment: Muse Spark Open's game passed 5 of 5 checks; MiMo v2.6 Pro was not in it.





