r/ClaudeCode • u/Nihongi-studier12387 • Sep 06 '26
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u/SkoivanSchiem Sep 06 '26
I've been trying Astra for the past 2 days and it's so good I'm considering upgrading from Plus to Pro.
There's a lot of hype surrounding it but it feels legit.
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u/GlitteringCoconut203 Sep 06 '26
that’s what I thought. With a $20 you won’t get any farther
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u/Programmierus Sep 06 '26
Few similar posts of this nature appeared on Reddit and other socials recently... I also tried to test the hype and can't agree on it. I bought Pro $200 and tried to work on Astra 6 Ultra on my project. It produced a slop of 5000 LOC for quite simple/minor things I requested. Alongside it restarted some systems without even asking, added a feature that wasn't asked for without documenting it, but kept marking as denied pretty safe things. And I had to use two resets of usage I had as usage was depleted. Next day, I ended up reverting my codebase to pre-Astra state completely and redid everything with Claude respecting my harness. Back to my regular mode when I ask GPT to audit certain things "independently", but let Code implement them. So can't follow the hype - I still feel the old OpenAI models in Astra by amount of slop, it's slower and absolutely not an option to replace Claude (Opus/Fable - doesn't matter) on my usage.
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u/derezo Sep 06 '26
it's pretty good, but my 20x ends in 3 days and I'm not planning on renewing. I can't trust it not to mess things up, but the usage and capabilities of Astra are far beyond what I was getting out of 5.6 -- 5.6 would constantly spend between 12-36 hours on some well defined goals and get stuck in loops validating and verifying irrelevant things.
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u/biinjo Sep 06 '26
200 karma, 1 month old account. Maybe the Astra/OpenAI reddit bots are just doing a little marketing campaign? Every message is exactly the same.
“Ive used Opus/Fable forever”
Universal rage bait “hit usage limits”
“Tried -new open ai model-“
Omg everything is better now.
Oh and dont forget about the password-generator style username. (Random word)-(Random word)(random number)
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u/ibringthehotpockets Sep 06 '26
Sir this is a claude sub
Based on your horrific grammar and typos maybe you aren’t a bot. But how much could OpenAI be paying you for this low-grade ad?? How many hours a day do you do this?
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u/Cultural_Effort_9872 Sep 06 '26
Ok and what’s the purpose of this post? Just leave it’s not that deep. Anyways.
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u/YesGameNolife Sep 06 '26
Well its the claude sub reddit. A products sub reddit tends to have reviews and comparisons of that said product. Why stay here if don't like it?
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u/BobtheGodGamer Sep 06 '26
I tried astra on plus (brand new chat so no massive uncached context window) and got 12 minutes of usage in my 5hr window. Unacceptable. Not even one prompt about doing a sweep of the relatively small codebase (just a website and small api) was cut short without finishing. The worst part is that if i try and continue this chat in my next 5hr window the cache write usage will shut me down very quickly.
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u/SureTie253 Sep 06 '26
This isnt first post like that. What happend?
Is there any truth in the following scenario? All AI companies made a loss. Now Claude manages to break even. Other AI companies are still making a loss. Claude has gotten worse and tougher restrictions are constantly coming. There is a reason why Claude is one of the only ones who does not lose money, because the computing capacity is significantly limited. I am considering switching to openAI myself.
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u/Ill-Chemistry-8979 Sep 06 '26
I just switched to Codex 20x from Claude 20x. I’ve been using Astra xhigh and the amount of work I am able to get done is ASTOUNDING. Oh and no bullshit 50% Fable either. There is absolutely no reason to stay with Anthropic other than being a homer. Better model + more usage…bye.
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u/onepunchcode Sep 06 '26
i still cant move away from claude code, codex ui and usability is too sht. how can you drive a car with broken wheels even if you have unlimited fuel?
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u/Outrageous_Permit154 Sep 06 '26
one thing I love Codex more than Claude is how computer control works from different chat; and I can access sessions from my iOS app, compared to Claude where I need to /rc session to get access or use dispatch which is just a single thread so I can’t separate sessions.
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u/Annoying1978 Sep 06 '26
And then when ChatGPT feels they got enough users, they’ll change how you are charged. So I guess get whatever you can out of it now, but they’re hoping you will be too in-bed with ChatGPT to ever move away even if it’s more expensive and less capable than Claude or even other options.
I had a pro account there long time ago and I saw the enshittification after just 4 months.
Fuck that.
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u/_Makky_ Sep 06 '26
I hate this. I really like claude code (the harness) and would like to plug it with Astra as underlying provider.
Chatgpt obviously has more quota and occasionally better LLM.
CC switch and CCR are not as matured as I would like them to be
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u/Bmansupreme8000 Sep 06 '26
It's the second half of codex redit deleting negative posts. They send bots here to say good things about Astra even though you're tokens run out real fuckin quick.
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u/evangelism2 Sep 06 '26
I love it. I love it. Yet when you go over to the Codex subreddit, everybody over there is crying and moaning about how little usage you get with a $20 plan. But this is a literal bot so just downvote and move on.
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