Nemotron 3.5 Super VL vs Grok 4.7
Nemotron 3.5 Super VL took 6 min 39 s and $0.035 at list price, Grok 4.7 took 18 min 1 s and $0.63 at list price. Grok 4.7 took 2.7× as long and cost 18× as much.
Nemotron 3.5 Super VL
NVIDIA · $0.50/M out · free route · 11 HN pts
Grok 4.7
xAI · $6.00/M out · 629 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 dedicated to bringing vintage synthesizers back to life. We started with a shared obsession for the circuits, keyboards, and sonic quirks of the instruments that shaped electronic music, and we turned that obsession into a careful, hands-on repair practice. Every synth that comes through our door is treated as its own project—diagnosed by ear, opened with care, and restored using a mix of original components and thoughtful modern solutions where needed. We work with collectors, studios, and musicians who value the character of older gear and want it to keep sounding its best. Based in Rotterdam, we combine technical precision with a deep respect for the history inside every chassis. At Patchbay, repairing isn’t just about getting a machine working again; it’s about preserving the voice of an instrument and keeping it ready for the next recording, performance, or moment of inspiration.
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.
Specs and numbers
| Nemotron 3.5 Super VL | Grok 4.7 | |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | NVIDIA | xAI |
| Made in | US | US |
| Released | 15 Oct 2026 | 21 Sep 2026 |
| Price in, per M tokens | free route (list $0.15/M) | $2.00 |
| Price out, per M tokens | free route (list $0.50/M) | $6.00 |
| Context | 1,048,576 tokens | 500,000 tokens |
| Weights | open | closed |
| Hacker News points | 11 | 629 |
| Time for the six prompts | 6 min 39 s | 18 min 1 s |
| List price of the six prompts | $0.035 | $0.63 |
Nemotron 3.5 Super VL was cheaper: $0.59 less at list price, and less on each of the 6 prompts. Nemotron 3.5 Super VL was faster: 11 min 22 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%; Nemotron 3.5 Super VL was not in it. Tea Garden experiment: Grok 4.7's game passed 5 of 5 checks; Nemotron 3.5 Super VL was not in it.