GPT-6.1 Terra Pro vs Claude Haiku 5.5
GPT-6.1 Terra Pro took 6 min 58 s and $0.39 at list price, Claude Haiku 5.5 took 4 min 43 s and $0.035 at list price. GPT-6.1 Terra Pro took 1.5× as long and cost 11× as much.
GPT-6.1 Terra Pro
OpenAI · $5.00/M out
Claude Haiku 5.5
Anthropic · $0.50/M out · 1,071 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 repairing vintage synthesizers. We work on the instruments that have shaped decades of music, from well-loved studio staples to curious machines that have spent years in storage.
Old synthesizers develop problems in their own ways. A key stops responding, a filter drifts, a power supply gives out. We take the time to trace the fault, understand the instrument and make a repair that respects how it was built. Wherever possible, we preserve original components; when a part needs replacing, we choose with care.
We know these instruments are more than collections of circuits. They carry sounds, habits and memories, and each one has a story before it reaches our bench. Whether you rely on yours every day or are hoping to hear it again after a long silence, our aim is to help you get back to making music.
Patchbay is a three-person studio in Rotterdam, and we spend our days inside vintage synthesizers. We are repair technicians first: we open the cases, replace the leaking capacitors, re-tune the oscillators that have drifted out of pitch, and bring back the filters that went silent decades ago. Our bench is crowded with service manuals, spare chips, and a soldering station that has seen more Moog panels than we can count. We started the studio because we kept meeting musicians whose favourite instruments sat unused in cupboards, not because they were broken beyond saving but because nobody nearby knew how to fix them. We still believe most of these machines can be made to sing again, and we would rather spend an afternoon finding the one bad resistor than see another good synth end up in a skip.
Specs and numbers
| GPT-6.1 Terra Pro | Claude Haiku 5.5 | |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | OpenAI | Anthropic |
| Made in | US | US |
| Released | 26 Oct 2026 | 7 Oct 2026 |
| Price in, per M tokens | $1.00 | $0.10 |
| Price out, per M tokens | $5.00 | $0.50 |
| Context | 1,050,000 tokens | 1,000,000 tokens |
| Weights | closed | closed |
| Hacker News points | — | 1,071 |
| Time for the six prompts | 6 min 58 s | 4 min 43 s |
| List price of the six prompts | $0.39 | $0.035 |
Claude Haiku 5.5 was cheaper: $0.35 less at list price, and less on each of the 6 prompts. Claude Haiku 5.5 was faster: 2 min 15 s less in total, and faster on 5 of the 6 prompts.
In the recording, both Breakout games play.





