alt Hacker NewsPelican: https://tools.simonwillison.net/markdown-svg-renderer#url=ht... - rendered via the OpenRouter API: https://openrouter.ai/moonshotai/kimi-k3
95 input, 16,658 output = 25 cents! https://www.llm-prices.com/#it=95&ot=16658&ic=3&oc=15 (13,241 of those were reasoning tokens.)
I think that's the most expensive pelican I've rendered through a Chinese model so far.
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I wouldn't be surprised if models were optimizing for rendering SVG pelicans at this point
How did "Generate an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle" turn into 95 tokens?
Oof, front fork is wrecked. Pelican should be wearing a helmet on that death trap.
The most whimsical benchmaxxing target :)
I rarely see gears in these bicycles. Is the idea that should a pelican need to go uphill it could just fly.
It got the 3D effect of leg behind the bar at least which is impressive
thanks for the pelican brief
It is a nice pelican, though. At least it has that going for it.
loving the comintern neckerchief on it!
Wrote this up in a bit more detail on my blog, including some thoughts on what value the pelican benchmark can still provide here: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/16/kimi-k3/