Claude Opus 5.5 vs Laguna S 2.1
Claude Opus 5.5 took 11 min 46 s and $1.57 at list price, Laguna S 2.1 took 2 min 43 s and $0.003 at list price. Claude Opus 5.5 took 4.3× as long and cost 497× as much.
Claude Opus 5.5
Anthropic · $20.00/M out · 2,737 HN pts
Laguna S 2.1
Poolside · $0.18/M out · free route · 430 HN pts
Only Claude Opus 5.5 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 in a narrow workshop near the Maas in Rotterdam. Every day we open up instruments that were built before most of their current owners were born. Some arrive in flight cases and some come wrapped in old bath towels. Most have a story: a Juno that went quiet halfway through a gig, a Minimoog left in someone's attic for thirty years, or a modular system that a previous technician gave up on.
We started Patchbay because we kept seeing good synthesizers sent off as "unrepairable" when all they needed was patience, a schematic and a steady hand. We swap out dried capacitors, hunt for intermittent faults, recalibrate oscillators until they track properly again, and source or rebuild parts that stopped being made decades ago.
We don't try to make old machines sound new. Our job is to make them sound like themselves again, and to make sure they keep working for the next person who plays them.
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 Opus 5.5 | Laguna S 2.1 | |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | Anthropic | Poolside |
| Made in | US | France |
| Released | 22 Sep 2026 | 21 Jul 2026 |
| Price in, per M tokens | $4.00 | free route (list $0.09/M) |
| Price out, per M tokens | $20.00 | free route (list $0.18/M) |
| Context | 1,000,000 tokens | 1,048,576 tokens |
| Weights | closed | open |
| Hacker News points | 2,737 | 430 |
| Time for the six prompts | 11 min 46 s | 2 min 43 s |
| List price of the six prompts | $1.57 | $0.003 |
Laguna S 2.1 was cheaper: $1.56 less at list price, and less on each of the 6 prompts. Laguna S 2.1 was faster: 9 min 3 s less in total, and faster on each of the 6 prompts.
In the recording, both Breakout games play.
Rebuild this screen experiment: Claude Opus 5.5's rebuild matched the screenshot at 89%; Laguna S 2.1 was not in it. Tea Garden experiment: Claude Opus 5.5's game passed 5 of 5 checks; Laguna S 2.1 was not in it.





