Pareto 26.9 vs MiMo v2.6 Flash
Pareto 26.9 took 10 min 32 s and $0.34 at list price, MiMo v2.6 Flash took 24 min 20 s and $0.040 at list price. MiMo v2.6 Flash took 2.3× as long, and Pareto 26.9 cost 8.4× as much.
Pareto 26.9
Unbiased · $7.50/M out
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 workshop in the heart of Rotterdam, where three people spend their days elbow-deep in the guts of vintage synthesizers. We fix the machines that made the sounds you grew up with—the ones that shaped entire genres and then got left in basements when the tech moved on. But we're not a museum. Our benches are covered in solder, schematics, and the occasional broken key that's been there for two weeks longer than we'd like to admit.
We started this studio because we got tired of seeing classic gear being stripped for parts, or worse, turned into Instagram decor. These instruments deserve better. They were built to make noise, and we want to keep them doing exactly that.
Between the three of us, we've fixed everything from a 1960s Buchla to a beat-up Juno that fell down a flight of stairs. If you've got a synth that's gone quiet, bring it in. We'll bring it back.
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
| Pareto 26.9 | MiMo v2.6 Flash | |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | Unbiased | Xiaomi |
| Made in | — | China |
| Released | 13 Oct 2026 | 21 Sep 2026 |
| Price in, per M tokens | $2.50 | $0.14 |
| Price out, per M tokens | $7.50 | $0.28 |
| Context | 262,144 tokens | 1,050,000 tokens |
| Weights | closed | open |
| Hacker News points | — | 5 |
| Time for the six prompts | 10 min 32 s | 24 min 20 s |
| List price of the six prompts | $0.34 | $0.040 |
MiMo v2.6 Flash was cheaper: $0.30 less at list price, and less on each of the 6 prompts. Pareto 26.9 was faster: 13 min 48 s less in total, and faster on 5 of the 6 prompts.
In the recording, Pareto 26.9's Breakout game plays; MiMo v2.6 Flash's stopped painting. Pareto 26.9's landing page was cut off at the output limit (12,000 tokens).