LFM2.5-24B-A2B vs Claude Haiku 5.5
LFM2.5-24B-A2B took 57 s and $0.020 at list price, Claude Haiku 5.5 took 4 min 9 s and $0.031 at list price. Claude Haiku 5.5 took 4.4× as long and cost 1.6× as much.
LFM2.5-24B-A2B
LiquidAI · $0.70/M out · 292 HN pts
Claude Haiku 5.5
Anthropic · $0.50/M out · 1,071 HN pts
Pelican
Generate an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle
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, three‑person studio in Rotterdam dedicated to bringing vintage synthesizers back to life. Founded by longtime gear enthusiasts, we combine hands‑on craftsmanship with a deep knowledge of analog electronics to restore, calibrate, and enhance instruments that have been out of tune for decades. Our workshop is a place where old circuitry meets modern precision, and where each repair is treated as a chance to learn something new about the machines we love. We work closely with musicians, collectors, and repair shops across the Netherlands, offering personalized service that respects the history and character of each instrument. By preserving the sonic quirks of classic synths, we help artists keep the sounds that shaped electronic music alive today. At Patchbay, the goal is simple: keep the past humming and give it a future. Our three‑person team blends electronics expertise, music production insight, and meticulous restoration craft.
Patchbay is a three-person studio in Rotterdam, and we spend our days inside vintage synthesizers. We are repair technicians first: we open the cases, replace the leaking capacitors, re-tune the oscillators that have drifted out of pitch, and bring back the filters that went silent decades ago. Our bench is crowded with service manuals, spare chips, and a soldering station that has seen more Moog panels than we can count. We started the studio because we kept meeting musicians whose favourite instruments sat unused in cupboards, not because they were broken beyond saving but because nobody nearby knew how to fix them. We still believe most of these machines can be made to sing again, and we would rather spend an afternoon finding the one bad resistor than see another good synth end up in a skip.
Specs and numbers
| LFM2.5-24B-A2B | Claude Haiku 5.5 | |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | LiquidAI | Anthropic |
| Made in | US | US |
| Released | 13 Oct 2026 | 7 Oct 2026 |
| Price in, per M tokens | $0.05 | $0.10 |
| Price out, per M tokens | $0.70 | $0.50 |
| Context | 128,000 tokens | 1,000,000 tokens |
| Weights | open | closed |
| Hacker News points | 292 | 1,071 |
| Time for the five prompts | 57 s | 4 min 9 s |
| List price of the five prompts | $0.020 | $0.031 |
LFM2.5-24B-A2B was cheaper: $0.012 less at list price, and less on 2 of the 5 prompts. LFM2.5-24B-A2B was faster: 3 min 13 s less in total, and faster on 4 of the 5 prompts.
In the recording, LFM2.5-24B-A2B's Breakout game stopped painting; Claude Haiku 5.5's plays. LFM2.5-24B-A2B's landing page was cut off at the output limit (8,192 tokens). LFM2.5-24B-A2B's Breakout game was cut off at the output limit (8,192 tokens). LFM2.5-24B-A2B has no watch: no file after 2 runs, used all 8,192 output tokens.



