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Claude Sonnet 5.5 vs Laguna S 2.1

6 prompts both ran·Specs and numbers·Change models

Claude Sonnet 5.5 took 3 min 49 s and $0.34 at list price, Laguna S 2.1 took 2 min 43 s and $0.003 at list price. Claude Sonnet 5.5 took 1.4× as long and cost 108× as much.

Claude Sonnet 5.5

Anthropic · $10.00/M out · 9 HN pts

Laguna S 2.1

Poolside · $0.18/M out · free route · 430 HN pts

Only Claude Sonnet 5.5 has CLI runs here (Claude Code).

Pelican

Generate an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle

Claude Sonnet 5.5's SVG for the "Pelican riding a bicycle" prompt

Claude Sonnet 5.5

12 s$0.0131.3k tokensCLI
Laguna S 2.1's SVG for the "Pelican riding a bicycle" prompt

Laguna S 2.1

10 s<$0.0011.1k 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 Claude Sonnet 5.5's page for the "Wristwatch that shows the current time" prompt

Claude Sonnet 5.5

42 s$0.0656.5k tokensCLI
Still of Laguna S 2.1's page for the "Wristwatch that shows the current time" prompt

Laguna S 2.1

25 s<$0.0013.0k 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 Claude Sonnet 5.5's page for the "Landing page for a cargo bike workshop" prompt

Claude Sonnet 5.5

1 min 37 s$0.1616k tokensCLI
Still of Laguna S 2.1's page for the "Landing page for a cargo bike workshop" prompt

Laguna S 2.1

41 s<$0.0014.7k 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 Claude Sonnet 5.5's page for the "Playable Breakout" prompt

Claude Sonnet 5.5

53 s$0.0838.3k tokensCLI
Still of Laguna S 2.1's page for the "Playable Breakout" prompt

Laguna S 2.1

74 s$0.0017.1k tokensAPI

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

Claude Sonnet 5.5's SVG for the "Bookshop logo" prompt

Claude Sonnet 5.5

17 s$0.0202.0k tokensCLI
Laguna S 2.1's SVG for the "Bookshop logo" prompt

Laguna S 2.1

10 s<$0.0011.0k 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 three people in a workshop in Rotterdam, trying to keep old synthesizers alive. We repair, restore and recalibrate the instruments that shaped electronic music: Moogs and Oberheims, Rolands and Sequential Circuits, the odd temperamental Soviet oddity that someone found in an attic.

Most of what lands on our benches has been silent for years. A crackling pot, a drifting oscillator, a power supply that gave up in 1994. Some come from working musicians who need their instrument back before the next tour. Others come from people who inherited a dusty box from a parent and want to hear what it sounds like.

We work slowly and by hand. We trace faults with a scope and a schematic, source or rebuild parts when originals are gone, and change as little as we can. Every synth leaves with a note describing exactly what we did, so the next person to open it knows where we have been.

Come by, bring your synth, and stay for coffee.

Claude Sonnet 5.5

7 s$0.005475 tokensCLI

Patchbay is een drie personen studio in Rotterdam die zich specialiseert in het repareren van vintage synthesizers. Onze missie is om de magie van klassieke elektronische instrumenten levendig te houden en te delen met een nieuwe generatie makers en musicians.

Gestart door twee ervaren technici en een ontwerper, combineren wij technische precisie met een diep begrip van elektronische muziekgeschiedenis. Wij geloven dat elk oud apparaat een verhaal heeft en een unieke klank die bijdragen aan de creatieve processen van artiesten.

Onze aanpak is zorgvuldig en respectvol. Elk apparaat wordt met de grootste zorg behandeld, met gebruik van oorspronkelijke onderdelen wanneer mogelijk en moderne technieken wanneer nodig. We streven altijd naar een perfecte balans tussen authenticiteit en betrouwbaarheid.

Of je nu een geliefde vintage synth moet repareren of hulp nodig hebt bij het onderhouden van je collectie, Patchbay staat klaar om je instrumenten weer in geluid te brengen. Neem contact op voor een consult; wij kijken uit naar het horen van je project.

Laguna S 2.1

3 s<$0.001332 tokensAPI

Specs and numbers

Claude Sonnet 5.5Laguna S 2.1
MakerAnthropicPoolside
Made inUSFrance
Released28 Sep 202621 Jul 2026
Price in, per M tokens$2.00free route (list $0.09/M)
Price out, per M tokens$10.00free route (list $0.18/M)
Context1,000,000 tokens1,048,576 tokens
Weightsclosedopen
Hacker News points9430
Time for the six prompts3 min 49 s2 min 43 s
List price of the six prompts$0.34$0.003

Laguna S 2.1 was cheaper: $0.34 less at list price, and less on each of the 6 prompts. Laguna S 2.1 was faster: 65 s less in total, and faster on 5 of the 6 prompts.

In the recording, both Breakout games play.

Rebuild this screen experiment: Claude Sonnet 5.5's rebuild matched the screenshot at 94%; Laguna S 2.1 was not in it. Tea Garden experiment: Claude Sonnet 5.5's game passed 5 of 5 checks; Laguna S 2.1 was not in it.

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