Glimpse vs Pareto 26.9
Glimpse took 8 min 32 s and $0.34 at list price, Pareto 26.9 took 10 min 32 s and $0.34 at list price. Pareto 26.9 took 1.2× as long, and both cost about the same.
Glimpse
Elorian · $3.00/M out
Pareto 26.9
Unbiased · $7.50/M out
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 small repair studio in Rotterdam, built around three hands, one bench, and a shared patience for machines that should have been forgotten. We work on vintage synthesizers — the hissing, glowing, drifting instruments that shaped records decades ago and still find their way to us in boxes, corners, and half-finished projects. Some arrive dead silent. Others howl through cracked pots, sticky keys, and memories of bad rooms. We like that. Our approach is careful: diagnose, restore, and explain what we found. We replace what must be replaced, but we preserve what gives an instrument its character, including its quirks when they are honest ones. Each repair is handled directly by the three of us, from first inspection to final listening. We are not a factory and we do not rush. We are three people in Rotterdam who believe old synthesizers deserve attention, patience, and a little stubborn love.
Patchbay is a small workshop in the heart of Rotterdam, where three people spend their days elbow-deep in the guts of vintage synthesizers. We fix the machines that made the sounds you grew up with—the ones that shaped entire genres and then got left in basements when the tech moved on. But we're not a museum. Our benches are covered in solder, schematics, and the occasional broken key that's been there for two weeks longer than we'd like to admit.
We started this studio because we got tired of seeing classic gear being stripped for parts, or worse, turned into Instagram decor. These instruments deserve better. They were built to make noise, and we want to keep them doing exactly that.
Between the three of us, we've fixed everything from a 1960s Buchla to a beat-up Juno that fell down a flight of stairs. If you've got a synth that's gone quiet, bring it in. We'll bring it back.
Specs and numbers
| Glimpse | Pareto 26.9 | |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | Elorian | Unbiased |
| Made in | US | — |
| Released | 17 Oct 2026 | 13 Oct 2026 |
| Price in, per M tokens | $0.60 | $2.50 |
| Price out, per M tokens | $3.00 | $7.50 |
| Context | 262,144 tokens | 262,144 tokens |
| Weights | closed | closed |
| Hacker News points | — | — |
| Time for the six prompts | 8 min 32 s | 10 min 32 s |
| List price of the six prompts | $0.34 | $0.34 |
Both cost about the same at list price: $0.34 and $0.34. Glimpse was faster: 2 min less in total, and faster on 4 of the 6 prompts.
In the recording, both Breakout games play. Pareto 26.9's landing page was cut off at the output limit (12,000 tokens).