GPT-6.1 Terra vs Glimpse
GPT-6.1 Terra took 5 min 29 s and $0.15 at list price, Glimpse took 8 min 32 s and $0.34 at list price. Glimpse took 1.6× as long and cost 2.3× as much.
GPT-6.1 Terra
OpenAI · $5.00/M out · 706 HN pts
Glimpse
Elorian · $3.00/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 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.
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.
Specs and numbers
| GPT-6.1 Terra | Glimpse | |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | OpenAI | Elorian |
| Made in | US | US |
| Released | 26 Oct 2026 | 17 Oct 2026 |
| Price in, per M tokens | $1.00 | $0.60 |
| Price out, per M tokens | $5.00 | $3.00 |
| Context | 1,050,000 tokens | 262,144 tokens |
| Weights | closed | closed |
| Hacker News points | 706 | — |
| Time for the six prompts | 5 min 29 s | 8 min 32 s |
| List price of the six prompts | $0.15 | $0.34 |
GPT-6.1 Terra was cheaper: $0.19 less at list price, and less on each of the 6 prompts. GPT-6.1 Terra was faster: 3 min 3 s less in total, and faster on 5 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%; Glimpse was not in it. Tea Garden experiment: GPT-6.1 Terra's game passed 5 of 5 checks; Glimpse was not in it.