Mistral Large 4 vs Laguna S 2.1
Mistral Large 4 took 51 min 22 s and $0.61 at list price, Laguna S 2.1 took 2 min 43 s and $0.003 at list price. Mistral Large 4 took 19× as long and cost 194× as much.
Mistral Large 4
Mistral · $2.10/M out · 4,689 HN pts
Laguna S 2.1
Poolside · $0.18/M out · free route · 430 HN pts
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 sits in a former warehouse on Rotterdam's northern edge, where the Maas meets the industrial harbour. Three of us work here—no more, no less—surrounded by oscilloscopes, desoldering stations, and the persistent hum of transformers. We repair vintage synthesizers. That is the whole business.
We are not a museum, and we are not a factory. Every Minimoog, ARP 2600, or Juno that crosses our bench receives the same stubborn attention: traced schematics, replaced capacitors, calibrated voltages, hours spent listening for the note that was never quite right. The machines arrive broken, silent, forgotten. They leave singing.
Rotterdam built its reputation on moving heavy things and keeping them moving. We apply the same pragmatism to circuits that predate us by forty years. If it made sound once, it can make sound again. That is the promise we keep, solder joint by solder joint.
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
| Mistral Large 4 | Laguna S 2.1 | |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | Mistral | Poolside |
| Made in | France | France |
| Released | 6 Oct 2026 | 21 Jul 2026 |
| Price in, per M tokens | $0.70 | free route (list $0.09/M) |
| Price out, per M tokens | $2.10 | free route (list $0.18/M) |
| Context | 1,048,576 tokens | 1,048,576 tokens |
| Weights | open | open |
| Hacker News points | 4,689 | 430 |
| Time for the six prompts | 51 min 22 s | 2 min 43 s |
| List price of the six prompts | $0.61 | $0.003 |
Laguna S 2.1 was cheaper: $0.61 less at list price, and less on each of the 6 prompts. Laguna S 2.1 was faster: 48 min 39 s less in total, and faster on each of the 6 prompts.
In the recording, both Breakout games play.
Rebuild this screen experiment: Mistral Large 4's rebuild matched the screenshot at 46%; Laguna S 2.1 was not in it. Tea Garden experiment: Mistral Large 4's game passed 2 of 5 checks; Laguna S 2.1 was not in it.





