Nex-N2.6 vs GPT-6.1 Terra
Nex-N2.6 took 28 min 48 s and $0.077 at list price, GPT-6.1 Terra took 5 min 29 s and $0.15 at list price. Nex-N2.6 took 5.3× as long, and GPT-6.1 Terra cost 1.9× as much.
Nex-N2.6
Nex AGI · $0.40/M out
GPT-6.1 Terra
OpenAI · $5.00/M out · 724 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, dedicated to repairing vintage synthesizers and keeping them in use.
Old instruments have a way of becoming familiar: the feel of a key, the response of a filter, the particular sound a circuit makes when it’s working as it should. When something goes wrong, we take the time to understand both the fault and the instrument around it. We work carefully, preserving original parts wherever practical and making repairs with the long term in mind.
Our studio brings together a shared interest in electronics, sound and the machines that connect them. Whether a synthesizer has a stubborn key, a noisy output or has been silent for years, we’re interested in finding a way forward.
We work with musicians, collectors and anyone who wants to hear an old instrument come to life again. If you have a synth that needs attention, we’d be glad to hear about it.
Specs and numbers
| Nex-N2.6 | GPT-6.1 Terra | |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | Nex AGI | OpenAI |
| Made in | China | US |
| Released | 10 Nov 2026 | 26 Oct 2026 |
| Price in, per M tokens | $0.12 | $1.00 |
| Price out, per M tokens | $0.40 | $5.00 |
| Context | 262,144 tokens | 1,050,000 tokens |
| Weights | open | closed |
| Hacker News points | — | 724 |
| Time for the six prompts | 28 min 48 s | 5 min 29 s |
| List price of the six prompts | $0.077 | $0.15 |
Nex-N2.6 was cheaper: $0.070 less at list price, and less on each of the 6 prompts. GPT-6.1 Terra was faster: 23 min 19 s less in total, and faster on each of the 6 prompts.
In the recording, both Breakout games play.
Rebuild this screen experiment: GPT-6.1 Terra's rebuild matched the screenshot at 95%; Nex-N2.6 was not in it. Tea Garden experiment: GPT-6.1 Terra's game passed 5 of 5 checks; Nex-N2.6 was not in it.