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Nex-N2.6 vs DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017

6 prompts both ran·Specs and numbers·Change models

Nex-N2.6 took 28 min 48 s and $0.077 at list price, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 took 7 min 16 s and $0.057 at list price. Nex-N2.6 took 4.0× as long and cost 1.4× as much.

Nex-N2.6

Nex AGI · $0.40/M out

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017

DeepSeek · $0.50/M out · 1,717 HN pts

Pelican

Generate an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle

Nex-N2.6's SVG for the "Pelican riding a bicycle" prompt

Nex-N2.6

1 min 56 s$0.00513k tokensAPI
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017's SVG for the "Pelican riding a bicycle" prompt

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017

48 s$0.00611k tokensAPI

Watch

Draw a mechanical wristwatch that shows the current local time, with a sweeping seconds hand and a date window. Make it look expensive.

Still of Nex-N2.6's page for the "Wristwatch that shows the current time" prompt

Nex-N2.6

6 min 53 s$0.01845k tokensAPI
Still of DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017's page for the "Wristwatch that shows the current time" prompt

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017

2 min 20 s$0.00917k tokensAPI

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.

Still of Nex-N2.6's page for the "Landing page for a cargo bike workshop" prompt

Nex-N2.6

9 min 25 s$0.02665k tokensAPI
Still of DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017's page for the "Landing page for a cargo bike workshop" prompt

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017

1 min 36 s$0.02346k tokensAPI

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.

Still of Nex-N2.6's page for the "Playable Breakout" prompt

Nex-N2.6

6 min 41 s$0.01845k tokensAPI
Still of DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017's page for the "Playable Breakout" prompt

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017

69 s$0.01325k tokensAPI

Design a logo for Night Heron, an independent bookshop that only opens after dark.

Nex-N2.6's SVG for the "Bookshop logo" prompt

Nex-N2.6

3 min 38 s$0.01024k tokensAPI
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017's SVG for the "Bookshop logo" prompt

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017

76 s$0.00713k tokensAPI

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 dedicated to the repair and restoration of vintage synthesizers. The name comes from the heart of every modular system: the point where all the signals meet. We work on the machines that shaped the sound of the last fifty years—Junos, Prophets, Minimoogs, and the strange, wonderful instruments that never made it into the history books.

Our workshop is a place of solder smoke and oscilloscope traces, where dead oscillators are coaxed back to life and tired potentiometers are quietly replaced with period-correct parts. We believe these instruments deserve to stay alive: not as museum pieces, but as working tools for the musicians, producers, and studios who play them every day. Between the three of us, we bring decades of experience in electronics and restoration, and a stubborn refusal to let good machines go to waste.

Nex-N2.6

16 s<$0.0011.7k tokensAPI

Patchbay is a three-person studio in Rotterdam devoted to keeping vintage synthesizers making the sounds they were built to make. We repair, service and restore analog instruments from the late 1960s onward, from familiar Moogs and ARPs to oddities with no service manual. Every synth that comes through the door is treated as a working instrument rather than a museum piece. We trace faults, rebuild power supplies, refresh capacitors, clean keybeds and calibrate oscillators, always with an eye on reliability and the character that made the machine worth saving. We document what we do, explain the options clearly and never replace more than necessary. Whether you need one dead voice brought back or a full restoration, we work carefully, at the bench and in conversation with you. Old synths belong on records and stages, and our job is to keep them there.

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017

7 s<$0.001975 tokensAPI

Specs and numbers

Nex-N2.6DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017
MakerNex AGIDeepSeek
Made inChinaChina
Released10 Nov 202617 Oct 2026
Price in, per M tokens$0.12$0.006
Price out, per M tokens$0.40$0.50
Context262,144 tokens1,048,576 tokens
Weightsopenopen
Hacker News points—1,717
Time for the six prompts28 min 48 s7 min 16 s
List price of the six prompts$0.077$0.057

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 was cheaper: $0.020 less at list price, and less on 5 of the 6 prompts. DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 was faster: 21 min 32 s less in total, and faster on each of the 6 prompts.

In the recording, both Breakout games play.

Rebuild this screen experiment: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017's rebuild matched the screenshot at 57%; Nex-N2.6 was not in it. Tea Garden experiment: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017's game passed 5 of 5 checks; Nex-N2.6 was not in it.

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