Grok 4.7 vs Laguna S 2.1
Grok 4.7 took 18 min 1 s and $0.63 at list price, Laguna S 2.1 took 2 min 43 s and $0.003 at list price. Grok 4.7 took 6.6× as long and cost 199× as much.
Grok 4.7
xAI · $6.00/M out · 629 HN pts
Laguna S 2.1
Poolside · $0.18/M out · free route · 430 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 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.
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.
Specs and numbers
| Grok 4.7 | Laguna S 2.1 | |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | xAI | Poolside |
| Made in | US | France |
| Released | 21 Sep 2026 | 21 Jul 2026 |
| Price in, per M tokens | $2.00 | free route (list $0.09/M) |
| Price out, per M tokens | $6.00 | free route (list $0.18/M) |
| Context | 500,000 tokens | 1,048,576 tokens |
| Weights | closed | open |
| Hacker News points | 629 | 430 |
| Time for the six prompts | 18 min 1 s | 2 min 43 s |
| List price of the six prompts | $0.63 | $0.003 |
Laguna S 2.1 was cheaper: $0.62 less at list price, and less on each of the 6 prompts. Laguna S 2.1 was faster: 15 min 17 s less in total, and faster on each 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%; Laguna S 2.1 was not in it. Tea Garden experiment: Grok 4.7's game passed 5 of 5 checks; Laguna S 2.1 was not in it.