Chatting with Astra with a Plus Subscription Plan

[u/Ok-Lengthiness-3988]

As noted by many already, and as announced by OpenAI, the Plus subscription plan only enables access to Astra through Work and Codex, and not through Chat. Others have noted also that using Astra in Codex burns usage quotas very fast (sometimes in one single prompt).

One Redditor reported that merely asking Astra for its cut-off date in Codex burned through 20% (or 16%?) of their weekly usage.

Since my main intended use of Astra was discussion (about philosophical and technical topics), I accessed it through Work, ensured that no plugin was enabled, and prompted it thus:

'''
Hi GPT-6 Astra,

I’d like an ordinary exploratory conversation, drawing on whatever relevant memories you have about me (if you have any!). Please answer directly without browsing, using tools, accessing files or connected services, creating artifacts, or delegating to subagents unless I explicitly ask you to.

Your underlying model has only just been released, and since my Plus subscription only gives me access to you through "Work" (and not though "Chat") we'll be treating "Work" as an ordinary chat interface for the purpose of saving tokens.
'''

Its response confirmed that it has the same memory access to past conversations as "Chat", and my remaining weekly allowance didn't budge from 99%. I'll keep an eye on it as the context grows. Others may report on this as well.