Nex-N2.6 vs Mistral Large 4
Nex-N2.6 took 28 min 48 s and $0.077 at list price, Mistral Large 4 took 51 min 22 s and $0.61 at list price. Mistral Large 4 took 1.8× as long and cost 7.9× as much.
Nex-N2.6
Nex AGI · $0.40/M out
Mistral Large 4
Mistral · $2.10/M out · 4,717 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 sits in a former warehouse on Rotterdam's northern edge, where the Maas meets the industrial harbour. Three of us work here—no more, no less—surrounded by oscilloscopes, desoldering stations, and the persistent hum of transformers. We repair vintage synthesizers. That is the whole business.
We are not a museum, and we are not a factory. Every Minimoog, ARP 2600, or Juno that crosses our bench receives the same stubborn attention: traced schematics, replaced capacitors, calibrated voltages, hours spent listening for the note that was never quite right. The machines arrive broken, silent, forgotten. They leave singing.
Rotterdam built its reputation on moving heavy things and keeping them moving. We apply the same pragmatism to circuits that predate us by forty years. If it made sound once, it can make sound again. That is the promise we keep, solder joint by solder joint.
Specs and numbers
| Nex-N2.6 | Mistral Large 4 | |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | Nex AGI | Mistral |
| Made in | China | France |
| Released | 10 Nov 2026 | 6 Oct 2026 |
| Price in, per M tokens | $0.12 | $0.70 |
| Price out, per M tokens | $0.40 | $2.10 |
| Context | 262,144 tokens | 1,048,576 tokens |
| Weights | open | open |
| Hacker News points | — | 4,717 |
| Time for the six prompts | 28 min 48 s | 51 min 22 s |
| List price of the six prompts | $0.077 | $0.61 |
Nex-N2.6 was cheaper: $0.53 less at list price, and less on each of the 6 prompts. Nex-N2.6 was faster: 22 min 34 s less in total, and faster on 3 of the 6 prompts.
In the recording, both Breakout games play.
Rebuild this screen experiment: Mistral Large 4's rebuild matched the screenshot at 46%; Nex-N2.6 was not in it. Tea Garden experiment: Mistral Large 4's game passed 2 of 5 checks; Nex-N2.6 was not in it.