Nex-N2.6 vs DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017
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
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 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.
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.
Specs and numbers
| Nex-N2.6 | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 | |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | Nex AGI | DeepSeek |
| Made in | China | China |
| Released | 10 Nov 2026 | 17 Oct 2026 |
| Price in, per M tokens | $0.12 | $0.006 |
| Price out, per M tokens | $0.40 | $0.50 |
| Context | 262,144 tokens | 1,048,576 tokens |
| Weights | open | open |
| Hacker News points | — | 1,717 |
| Time for the six prompts | 28 min 48 s | 7 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.





