Nex-N2.6 vs Gemini 4 Argon
Nex-N2.6 took 28 min 48 s and $0.077 at list price, Gemini 4 Argon took 13 min 43 s and $0.68 at list price. Nex-N2.6 took 2.1× as long, and Gemini 4 Argon cost 8.8× as much.
Nex-N2.6
Nex AGI · $0.40/M out
Gemini 4 Argon
Google · $10.00/M out · 2,040 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.
In a quiet industrial building overlooking the Maas, the air smells of warm dust, solder flux, and ozone. This is Patchbay, a three-person workshop in Rotterdam dedicated to keeping the golden age of electronic music alive. We don’t view vintage synthesizers as museum pieces to be locked behind glass. To us, a Roland Jupiter-8 or an ARP Odyssey is a living, breathing instrument meant to be played, gigged, and pushed to its sonic limits.
Between the three of us, we have spent decades deciphering faded schematics, hunting down obsolete transistors, and cleaning decades of club grime from beneath weighted keys. Rotterdam is a city built on raw electronics and relentless rhythms, and we take pride in keeping its hardware running. Whether you bring us a touring workhorse with a dead voice chip or a garage-find modular rig that hasn’t powered on since 1984, we are here to make it sing again.
Specs and numbers
| Nex-N2.6 | Gemini 4 Argon | |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | Nex AGI | |
| Made in | China | US |
| Released | 10 Nov 2026 | 13 Oct 2026 |
| Price in, per M tokens | $0.12 | $2.00 |
| Price out, per M tokens | $0.40 | $10.00 |
| Context | 262,144 tokens | 1,048,576 tokens |
| Weights | open | closed |
| Hacker News points | — | 2,040 |
| Time for the six prompts | 28 min 48 s | 13 min 43 s |
| List price of the six prompts | $0.077 | $0.68 |
Nex-N2.6 was cheaper: $0.60 less at list price, and less on each of the 6 prompts. Gemini 4 Argon was faster: 15 min 5 s less in total, and faster on 5 of the 6 prompts.
In the recording, both Breakout games play.
Rebuild this screen experiment: Gemini 4 Argon's rebuild matched the screenshot at 69%; Nex-N2.6 was not in it. Tea Garden experiment: Gemini 4 Argon's game passed 5 of 5 checks; Nex-N2.6 was not in it.