Grok 4.7 vs Fugu Max
Grok 4.7 took 18 min 1 s and $0.63 at list price, Fugu Max took 27 min 24 s and $1.02 at list price. Fugu Max took 1.5× as long and cost 1.6× as much.
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 devoted to the repair of vintage synthesizers. We work on instruments that have already lived a long life on stages, in studios, and in spare rooms, and we treat each one as something worth keeping rather than replacing. Our benches are set up for careful diagnosis, component-level repair, and the slow work of bringing an old circuit back into reliable use.
The three of us share the shop, the tools, and the jobs. One person may trace a failing voice while another sources a part or recalibrates an oscillator; we pass instruments between us until the sound is right and the hardware is stable. Clients come to us with analog polys, early digital machines, drum boxes, and the odd modular that has been patched and repatched for decades. We listen first, then open the case.
We are not a museum and we are not a showroom. Patchbay exists so that working musicians, collectors, and curious owners in Rotterdam and beyond can keep playing the instruments they already love.
Tucked away in the industrial heart of Rotterdam, Patchbay is a three-person workshop dedicated to the survival and revival of vintage synthesizers. We started with a simple conviction: these instruments are not museum relics meant to gather dust behind glass, but living, breathing tools of expression built to make noise. Across our three workbenches, we combine decades of obsessive circuit-tracing, soldering, and component-level diagnostics. Whether coaxing a temperamental Japanese polysynth back into tune, rebuilding a tired power supply, or hunting down elusive, out-of-production chips, we treat every machine with meticulous patience and deep technical reverence. Rotterdam is a city shaped by honest craft, and we bring that same pragmatic devotion to every solder joint and calibration trim. At Patchbay, we don't just repair obsolete electronics—we preserve the warmth, grit, and soul of analog sound for the musicians who still rely on it.
Specs and numbers
| Grok 4.7 | Fugu Max | |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | xAI | Sakana AI |
| Made in | US | Japan |
| Released | 21 Sep 2026 | 11 Sep 2026 |
| Price in, per M tokens | $2.00 | $2.00 |
| Price out, per M tokens | $6.00 | $6.00 |
| Context | 500,000 tokens | 1,000,000 tokens |
| Weights | closed | closed |
| Hacker News points | 629 | 7 |
| Time for the six prompts | 18 min 1 s | 27 min 24 s |
| List price of the six prompts | $0.63 | $1.02 |
Grok 4.7 was cheaper: $0.39 less at list price, and less on 5 of the 6 prompts. Grok 4.7 was faster: 9 min 24 s less in total, and faster on 5 of the 6 prompts.
In the recording, both Breakout games play.
Rebuild this screen experiment: Grok 4.7's rebuild matched the screenshot at 59%; Fugu Max was not in it. Tea Garden experiment: Grok 4.7's game passed 5 of 5 checks; Fugu Max was not in it.