Nex-N2.6 vs Kimi K3.1 Pro
Nex-N2.6 took 28 min 48 s and $0.077 at list price, Kimi K3.1 Pro took 32 min 17 s and $1.27 at list price. Kimi K3.1 Pro took 1.1× as long and cost 16× as much.
Nex-N2.6
Nex AGI · $0.40/M out
Kimi K3.1 Pro
Moonshot AI · $10.00/M out · 1,821 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 the repair and restoration of vintage synthesizers. The name comes from the heart of every modular system: the point where all the signals meet. We work on the machines that shaped the sound of the last fifty years—Junos, Prophets, Minimoogs, and the strange, wonderful instruments that never made it into the history books.
Our workshop is a place of solder smoke and oscilloscope traces, where dead oscillators are coaxed back to life and tired potentiometers are quietly replaced with period-correct parts. We believe these instruments deserve to stay alive: not as museum pieces, but as working tools for the musicians, producers, and studios who play them every day. Between the three of us, we bring decades of experience in electronics and restoration, and a stubborn refusal to let good machines go to waste.
Patchbay is a three-person studio in Rotterdam devoted to keeping vintage synthesizers alive, playable, and full of character. We work on instruments that have spent decades in studios, bedrooms, and tour cases, and we believe each one deserves more than a quick fix. From drifting oscillators and noisy sliders to tired keybeds and mysterious faults, we take the time to listen, diagnose, and repair with care.
Our approach combines patient troubleshooting, period-correct components where possible, and a deep respect for the original sound. We do not believe in erasing an instrument’s history; we preserve the quirks that make it worth loving. Whether your synthesizer needs a full overhaul or a little help getting back on stage, you will always know who is working on it and why. Patchbay exists for the joy of switching on an old machine and hearing it come back to life.
Specs and numbers
| Nex-N2.6 | Kimi K3.1 Pro | |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | Nex AGI | Moonshot AI |
| Made in | China | China |
| Released | 10 Nov 2026 | 23 Oct 2026 |
| Price in, per M tokens | $0.12 | $2.00 |
| Price out, per M tokens | $0.40 | $10.00 |
| Context | 262,144 tokens | 1,048,576 tokens |
| Weights | open | open |
| Hacker News points | — | 1,821 |
| Time for the six prompts | 28 min 48 s | 32 min 17 s |
| List price of the six prompts | $0.077 | $1.27 |
Nex-N2.6 was cheaper: $1.19 less at list price, and less on each of the 6 prompts. Nex-N2.6 was faster: 3 min 29 s less in total, and faster on 4 of the 6 prompts.
In the recording, both Breakout games play.
Rebuild this screen experiment: Kimi K3.1 Pro's rebuild matched the screenshot at 87%; Nex-N2.6 was not in it. Tea Garden experiment: Kimi K3.1 Pro's game passed 5 of 5 checks; Nex-N2.6 was not in it.