Nemotron 3.5 Super VL vs Pareto 26.9
Nemotron 3.5 Super VL took 6 min 39 s and $0.035 at list price, Pareto 26.9 took 10 min 32 s and $0.34 at list price. Pareto 26.9 took 1.6× as long and cost 9.8× as much.
Nemotron 3.5 Super VL
NVIDIA · $0.50/M out · free route · 11 HN pts
Pareto 26.9
Unbiased · $7.50/M out
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 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
| Nemotron 3.5 Super VL | Pareto 26.9 | |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | NVIDIA | Unbiased |
| Made in | US | — |
| Released | 15 Oct 2026 | 13 Oct 2026 |
| Price in, per M tokens | free route (list $0.15/M) | $2.50 |
| Price out, per M tokens | free route (list $0.50/M) | $7.50 |
| Context | 1,048,576 tokens | 262,144 tokens |
| Weights | open | closed |
| Hacker News points | 11 | — |
| Time for the six prompts | 6 min 39 s | 10 min 32 s |
| List price of the six prompts | $0.035 | $0.34 |
Nemotron 3.5 Super VL was cheaper: $0.30 less at list price, and less on each of the 6 prompts. Nemotron 3.5 Super VL was faster: 3 min 54 s less in total, and faster on 4 of the 6 prompts.
In the recording, both Breakout games play. Pareto 26.9's landing page was cut off at the output limit (12,000 tokens).