Claude Fable 5.1 vs Laguna S 2.1
Claude Fable 5.1 took 16 min 4 s and $3.97 at list price, Laguna S 2.1 took 2 min 43 s and $0.003 at list price. Claude Fable 5.1 took 5.9× as long and cost 1260× as much.
Claude Fable 5.1
Anthropic · $50.00/M out · 1,630 HN pts
Laguna S 2.1
Poolside · $0.18/M out · free route · 430 HN pts
Only Claude Fable 5.1 has CLI runs here (Claude Code).
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 three people and one workshop in Rotterdam, and we spend our days bringing old synthesizers back to life. Most of what arrives at our bench is somewhere between thirty and fifty years old: a Juno with a dead voice chip, a Minimoog that drifts out of tune the moment the room warms up, a Polysix whose battery has quietly eaten its own circuit board. We know these instruments inside and out because we have had hundreds of them open on the table.
We started Patchbay because we kept meeting musicians who had been told their synth was not worth fixing. We disagree. These machines were built to be serviced, and with the right parts, enough patience, and a good set of schematics, almost any of them can be made to play again. When we hand an instrument back, we want it to sound the way it did the day it left the factory, or better.
Patchbay is een drie personen studio in Rotterdam die zich specialiseert in het repareren van vintage synthesizers. Onze missie is om de magie van klassieke elektronische instrumenten levendig te houden en te delen met een nieuwe generatie makers en musicians.
Gestart door twee ervaren technici en een ontwerper, combineren wij technische precisie met een diep begrip van elektronische muziekgeschiedenis. Wij geloven dat elk oud apparaat een verhaal heeft en een unieke klank die bijdragen aan de creatieve processen van artiesten.
Onze aanpak is zorgvuldig en respectvol. Elk apparaat wordt met de grootste zorg behandeld, met gebruik van oorspronkelijke onderdelen wanneer mogelijk en moderne technieken wanneer nodig. We streven altijd naar een perfecte balans tussen authenticiteit en betrouwbaarheid.
Of je nu een geliefde vintage synth moet repareren of hulp nodig hebt bij het onderhouden van je collectie, Patchbay staat klaar om je instrumenten weer in geluid te brengen. Neem contact op voor een consult; wij kijken uit naar het horen van je project.
Specs and numbers
| Claude Fable 5.1 | Laguna S 2.1 | |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | Anthropic | Poolside |
| Made in | US | France |
| Released | 1 Sep 2026 | 21 Jul 2026 |
| Price in, per M tokens | $10.00 | free route (list $0.09/M) |
| Price out, per M tokens | $50.00 | free route (list $0.18/M) |
| Context | 1,000,000 tokens | 1,048,576 tokens |
| Weights | closed | open |
| Hacker News points | 1,630 | 430 |
| Time for the six prompts | 16 min 4 s | 2 min 43 s |
| List price of the six prompts | $3.97 | $0.003 |
Laguna S 2.1 was cheaper: $3.97 less at list price, and less on each of the 6 prompts. Laguna S 2.1 was faster: 13 min 21 s less in total, and faster on each of the 6 prompts.
In the recording, Claude Fable 5.1's Breakout game stopped painting; Laguna S 2.1's plays.
Rebuild this screen experiment: Claude Fable 5.1's rebuild matched the screenshot at 78%; Laguna S 2.1 was not in it. Tea Garden experiment: Claude Fable 5.1's game passed 5 of 5 checks; Laguna S 2.1 was not in it.





