Muse Ember vs Claude Haiku 5.5
Muse Ember took 3 min 48 s and $0.065 at list price, Claude Haiku 5.5 took 4 min 43 s and $0.035 at list price. Claude Haiku 5.5 took 1.2× as long, and Muse Ember cost 1.8× as much.
Muse Ember
Meta · $0.50/M out · 346 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
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 a three-person studio in Rotterdam repairing vintage synthesizers. We work carefully, one instrument at a time, because old machines deserve patience. Our bench is crowded with test leads, spare knobs, tired capacitors, and service manuals held together by tape. Every repair begins with listening. We power up the synth, play a few notes, and trace the fault by ear before opening the case. Perhaps the filter drifts as it warms. Maybe a voice cuts out, or the envelope behaves strangely. We clean contacts, replace components only when necessary, and keep original parts wherever possible. We believe repair is a form of preservation. These instruments were built to be played for decades, not replaced when something small fails. Rotterdam has a long history of making and fixing things, and we are proud to continue that tradition. Bring us your beloved keyboard, and we will see what can be saved.
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
| Muse Ember | Claude Haiku 5.5 | |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | Meta | Anthropic |
| Made in | US | US |
| Released | 9 Nov 2026 | 7 Oct 2026 |
| Price in, per M tokens | $0.10 | $0.10 |
| Price out, per M tokens | $0.50 | $0.50 |
| Context | 1,048,576 tokens | 1,000,000 tokens |
| Weights | closed | closed |
| Hacker News points | 346 | 1,071 |
| Time for the six prompts | 3 min 48 s | 4 min 43 s |
| List price of the six prompts | $0.065 | $0.035 |
Claude Haiku 5.5 was cheaper: $0.030 less at list price, and less on each of the 6 prompts. Muse Ember was faster: 56 s less in total, and faster on 2 of the 6 prompts.
In the recording, both Breakout games play.





