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Mercury 3 vs Laguna S 2.1

6 prompts both ran·Specs and numbers·Change models

Mercury 3 took 7 min 31 s and $0.065 at list price, Laguna S 2.1 took 2 min 43 s and $0.003 at list price. Mercury 3 took 2.8× as long and cost 20× as much.

Mercury 3

Inception · $0.35/M out · 258 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

Mercury 3's SVG for the "Pelican riding a bicycle" prompt

Mercury 3

1 min 30 s$0.01028k tokensAPI
Laguna S 2.1's SVG for the "Pelican riding a bicycle" prompt

Laguna S 2.1

10 s<$0.0011.1k tokensAPI

Watch

Draw a mechanical wristwatch that shows the current local time, with a sweeping seconds hand and a date window. Make it look expensive.

Still of Mercury 3's page for the "Wristwatch that shows the current time" prompt

Mercury 3

70 s$0.01233k tokensAPI
Still of Laguna S 2.1's page for the "Wristwatch that shows the current time" prompt

Laguna S 2.1

25 s<$0.0013.0k tokensAPI

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.

Still of Mercury 3's page for the "Landing page for a cargo bike workshop" prompt

Mercury 3

42 s$0.00720k tokensAPI
Still of Laguna S 2.1's page for the "Landing page for a cargo bike workshop" prompt

Laguna S 2.1

41 s<$0.0014.7k tokensAPI

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.

Still of Mercury 3's page for the "Playable Breakout" prompt

Mercury 3

29 s$0.00719k tokensAPI
Still of Laguna S 2.1's page for the "Playable Breakout" prompt

Laguna S 2.1

74 s$0.0017.1k tokensAPI

Design a logo for Night Heron, an independent bookshop that only opens after dark.

Mercury 3's SVG for the "Bookshop logo" prompt

Mercury 3

3 min 38 s$0.02983k tokensAPI
Laguna S 2.1's SVG for the "Bookshop logo" prompt

Laguna S 2.1

10 s<$0.0011.0k tokensAPI

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 repair studio in Rotterdam, tucked between a bike shop and a coffee roastery, where vintage synthesizers come to live another life. We are not a factory and we are not a museum; we are technicians who love the smell of warm solder and the patience that old circuits demand. Between us we have restored everything from early Moog modulars to battered Junos, and we treat each instrument as if it were the first one we ever opened. There is no assembly line here. Every capacitor is tested, every busbar tracked by hand, and every voice board is listened to twice—once on the bench, once through the speakers of the synth that will use it. Patchbay exists because these machines deserve more than a quick fix. They deserve someone who knows their quirks, their failures, and the strange, beautiful sounds that made us fall in love with them in the first place.

Mercury 3

3 s<$0.0011.2k tokensAPI

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.

Laguna S 2.1

3 s<$0.001332 tokensAPI

Specs and numbers

Mercury 3Laguna S 2.1
MakerInceptionPoolside
Made inUSFrance
Released16 Oct 202621 Jul 2026
Price in, per M tokens$0.10free route (list $0.09/M)
Price out, per M tokens$0.35free route (list $0.18/M)
Context1,000,000 tokens1,048,576 tokens
Weightsclosedopen
Hacker News points258430
Time for the six prompts7 min 31 s2 min 43 s
List price of the six prompts$0.065$0.003

Laguna S 2.1 was cheaper: $0.061 less at list price, and less on each of the 6 prompts. Laguna S 2.1 was faster: 4 min 48 s less in total, and faster on 4 of the 6 prompts.

In the recording, Mercury 3's Breakout game stopped painting; Laguna S 2.1's plays.

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