Xing 4.0 vs Grok 4.7
Xing 4.0 took 25 min 32 s and was free at list price, Grok 4.7 took 15 min 31 s and $0.55 at list price. Xing 4.0 took 1.6× as long.
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.
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 compact, three-person workshop rooted in the dynamic streets of Rotterdam, born from a shared reverence for analog sound. Our team shares an unwavering dedication to vintage synthesizers, viewing each oscillator, filter, and routing cable as a vital piece of sonic history waiting to be restored. Whether diagnosing a failing voltage regulator or carefully retrofitting obsolete components, we take immense pride in bringing classic instruments back to their full potential. In our studio, repairing isn't just a technical service—it is a shared passion among friends who believe the past deserves to keep playing. We meticulously diagnose and revive legacy synths, ensuring the iconic sounds of yesterday continue shaping today’s electronic music. Bring us your dented, broken machines, and let us help you reconnect them with the rich, unmistakable sounds they were always meant to make. Every patch, every knob, every fleeting tone depends on the work we do here.
Patchbay is a three-person studio in Rotterdam devoted to the repair of vintage synthesizers. We work on instruments that have already lived a long life on stages, in studios, and in spare rooms, and we treat each one as something worth keeping rather than replacing. Our benches are set up for careful diagnosis, component-level repair, and the slow work of bringing an old circuit back into reliable use.
The three of us share the shop, the tools, and the jobs. One person may trace a failing voice while another sources a part or recalibrates an oscillator; we pass instruments between us until the sound is right and the hardware is stable. Clients come to us with analog polys, early digital machines, drum boxes, and the odd modular that has been patched and repatched for decades. We listen first, then open the case.
We are not a museum and we are not a showroom. Patchbay exists so that working musicians, collectors, and curious owners in Rotterdam and beyond can keep playing the instruments they already love.
Specs and numbers
| Xing 4.0 | Grok 4.7 | |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | XingChen | xAI |
| Made in | China | US |
| Released | 16 Oct 2026 | 21 Sep 2026 |
| Price in, per M tokens | free route (list $0/M) | $2.00 |
| Price out, per M tokens | free route (list $0/M) | $6.00 |
| Context | 262,144 tokens | 500,000 tokens |
| Weights | open | closed |
| Hacker News points | — | 629 |
| Time for the five prompts | 25 min 32 s | 15 min 31 s |
| List price of the five prompts | free | $0.55 |
Xing 4.0 was free at list price; Grok 4.7 cost $0.55. Grok 4.7 was faster: 10 min 1 s less in total, and faster on each of the 5 prompts.
In the recording, both Breakout games play. Xing 4.0's landing page showed a blank first frame when the still was taken. Xing 4.0 has no logo: doesn’t draw (an SVG file without the SVG namespace, which browsers draw as an empty box).
Rebuild this screen experiment: Grok 4.7's rebuild matched the screenshot at 59%; Xing 4.0 was not in it. Tea Garden experiment: Grok 4.7's game passed 5 of 5 checks; Xing 4.0 was not in it.