Pareto 26.9 vs Muse Wonder
Pareto 26.9 took 10 min 32 s and $0.34 at list price, Muse Wonder took 6 min 56 s and $0.93 at list price. Pareto 26.9 took 1.5× as long, and Muse Wonder cost 2.8× as much.
Pareto 26.9
Unbiased · $7.50/M out
Muse Wonder
Meta · $20.00/M out · 682 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 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.
Patchbay is a small workshop in Rotterdam where three of us spend our days bringing vintage synthesizers back to life. We repair and restore instruments from the 1960s, 70s, and 80s — Minimoogs with drifting oscillators, Junos with silent choruses, Prophet-5s that have not powered on in decades — tracing faults board by board, replacing tired components, and calibrating each machine until it sounds musical again. We believe these instruments were built to be played, not preserved behind glass, so we work carefully and reversibly wherever possible, documenting every repair and keeping original parts when they can be saved. Musicians, studios, and collectors bring us synths from across Europe, sometimes in flight cases, sometimes in pieces. Whether it needs a full restoration or a single sticky key, we treat it as if it were our own, and we will not send it home until we would happily play it ourselves.
Specs and numbers
| Pareto 26.9 | Muse Wonder | |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | Unbiased | Meta |
| Made in | — | US |
| Released | 13 Oct 2026 | 12 Oct 2026 |
| Price in, per M tokens | $2.50 | $4.00 |
| Price out, per M tokens | $7.50 | $20.00 |
| Context | 262,144 tokens | 1,048,576 tokens |
| Weights | closed | closed |
| Hacker News points | — | 682 |
| Time for the six prompts | 10 min 32 s | 6 min 56 s |
| List price of the six prompts | $0.34 | $0.93 |
Pareto 26.9 was cheaper: $0.59 less at list price, and less on each of the 6 prompts. Muse Wonder was faster: 3 min 37 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).
Rebuild this screen experiment: Muse Wonder's rebuild matched the screenshot at 66%; Pareto 26.9 was not in it. Tea Garden experiment: Muse Wonder's game passed 5 of 5 checks; Pareto 26.9 was not in it.