LFM2.5-24B-A2B vs Pareto 26.9
LFM2.5-24B-A2B took 57 s and $0.020 at list price, Pareto 26.9 took 8 min 32 s and $0.29 at list price. Pareto 26.9 took 9.1× as long and cost 15× as much.
LFM2.5-24B-A2B
LiquidAI · $0.70/M out · 292 HN pts
Pareto 26.9
Unbiased · $7.50/M out
Pelican
Generate an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle
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, three‑person studio in Rotterdam dedicated to bringing vintage synthesizers back to life. Founded by longtime gear enthusiasts, we combine hands‑on craftsmanship with a deep knowledge of analog electronics to restore, calibrate, and enhance instruments that have been out of tune for decades. Our workshop is a place where old circuitry meets modern precision, and where each repair is treated as a chance to learn something new about the machines we love. We work closely with musicians, collectors, and repair shops across the Netherlands, offering personalized service that respects the history and character of each instrument. By preserving the sonic quirks of classic synths, we help artists keep the sounds that shaped electronic music alive today. At Patchbay, the goal is simple: keep the past humming and give it a future. Our three‑person team blends electronics expertise, music production insight, and meticulous restoration craft.
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
| LFM2.5-24B-A2B | Pareto 26.9 | |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | LiquidAI | Unbiased |
| Made in | US | — |
| Released | 13 Oct 2026 | 13 Oct 2026 |
| Price in, per M tokens | $0.05 | $2.50 |
| Price out, per M tokens | $0.70 | $7.50 |
| Context | 128,000 tokens | 262,144 tokens |
| Weights | open | closed |
| Hacker News points | 292 | — |
| Time for the five prompts | 57 s | 8 min 32 s |
| List price of the five prompts | $0.020 | $0.29 |
LFM2.5-24B-A2B was cheaper: $0.27 less at list price, and less on each of the 5 prompts. LFM2.5-24B-A2B was faster: 7 min 36 s less in total, and faster on each of the 5 prompts.
In the recording, LFM2.5-24B-A2B's Breakout game stopped painting; Pareto 26.9's plays. LFM2.5-24B-A2B's landing page was cut off at the output limit (8,192 tokens). Pareto 26.9's landing page was cut off at the output limit (12,000 tokens). LFM2.5-24B-A2B's Breakout game was cut off at the output limit (8,192 tokens). LFM2.5-24B-A2B has no watch: no file after 2 runs, used all 8,192 output tokens.



