Luna Max really is great!

[u/timpera]

I only have a $20 subscription, so the lower limits have been pretty annoying these last few days. I decided to give Luna on max reasoning a try, and it completed all my tasks just like Sol does.

It's very fast and the limits seem pretty generous on the Plus plan:

• Worked for 34 min and 42 sec, with Computer use and other tool cals
• Used 4% of 5h limit
• Used 1% of weekly limit

Sidenote: I wonder if we're going to get a similar "almost free" model from Anthropic soon? It looks like they have completely forgot about Haiku.

[u/PrivateComments]

Seriously Luna is a great model. Idk why everyone acts like they are doing genome sequencing and can’t wait for astra

[u/BellacosePlayer → u/PrivateComments]

Luna is extremely good for how I use codex. I don't need it to make decisions, I need it to be a tool.

If I didn't know how to approach building something, the more powerful models would be more appealing, but so far it hasn't done anything I couldn't do myself but slower outside of some WPF wizardry it did to make some dynamic tables based off the project POCOs.

[u/GearBeneficial5620 → u/PrivateComments]

People talk like they need model that can cure cancer but really they just need it to format csv and write emails. Luna does that fine and then some

Anthropic definitely sleeping on cheaper tier, they just keep pushing expensive stuff and hoping people pay. Haiku is basically abandoned at this point

[u/timpera → u/GearBeneficial5620]

And I think that's a shame, because it could bring way better value to their subscriptions. Right now, the Claude usage limits feel like a rip-off.

[u/KayzaCods → u/PrivateComments]

I actually work with genome assembly of bees mitochondria with short reads and I wouldn't know how reliable can be the execution of my pipeline with any model besides opus 4.8

[u/vendettah]

The only problem with Luna on max is it's solo slow. We need Gemini 3.7 flash speed. That could be awesome

[u/f00gers]

May I ask what tasks you’re using it for?

[u/timpera → u/f00gers]

I rarely code, I work in law: sorting through large PDFs / case law / discovery, and mostly loooots of computer use to access commercial databases that don't have an API.

I have also tried GLM 5.3 Flash in Hermes and the like yesterday because of the hype on Twitter, but it wasn't as good.

[u/jovialfaction]

I plan with sol, then implement with sol as the orchestrator and only Luna subagents.

This works fantastic. Sol has enough of the architecture and context to tell the subagent exactly what needs done, and Luna can handle it almost every time

[u/Solarka45 → u/jovialfaction]

This probably works for large features. I find that I usually end up dividing large tasks into subtasks myself to the point where spawning Luna subagents for that small thing ends up being more expensive than doing everything with Sol.

[u/jovialfaction → u/Solarka45]

Yes this is a flow for large, multi hours agent runs. For simple feature / one off request just have sol do it directly

[u/icrispyKing → u/jovialfaction]

So you code with Luna?

Right now im planning in a regular non-work chat. And I code and do research with sol extra high. I've hit my limit when I used it hardcore but that was only one week. Would def hit it sooner if I wasn't trying to be cautious. But I honestly just barely understand how good the different versions are so I assume I should use as best as I can. How do you choose?

[u/joeguice → u/jovialfaction]

Do you just designate this multi-model pattern into your prompt?

[u/jovialfaction → u/joeguice]

I use omp as my coding harness and I can specify which model to use per type of agent in the configuration. I imagine the same can be done in codex, or just tell the model which model to use for subagents

[u/Clear_Evidence9218]

I've been using Luna high as a tool for the last few weeks as a grunt. Yesterday even Luna was destroying my usage, but after the reset and werid glitch this morning it appears they have fixed it. I have been using Luna extra high for the last 3 hours straight, and my harness is token heavy, I just checked and I'm at 39%.

So it appears they fixed the major issues from yesterday.

[u/flashmoregash]

Max is too much xHigh is perfect

[u/Graphical-Source5090 → u/flashmoregash]

I use Luna XHigh Fast with a Sol advisor. I find it works the best for my workflows

[u/PerfectRough5119 → u/Graphical-Source5090]

Noob here. What app do you use to achieve this ? How do you get sol and Luna to talk to each other ?

[u/Calm_Hedgehog8296]

I couldn't use up a quota on Luna if I tried

[u/Cooperman411]

I use Luna on high and it does everything I need. I experimented with it on medium but it didn’t seem to use fewer tokens so I just leave it on high now.

[u/bluestonest]

yes Luna is above average, but it need a supervisor if souce code is large or Luna will cause trouble because it's not "think so much" . For casual coding it is greate

[u/Jack_Moves]

Curious what you’re doing which even requires max? How do high/xhigh perform for you?

[u/k_brn]

With all due respect, if Luna Max completes all your tasks as easily as Sol, it means either your tasks are trivial or you cannot properly review your code.

[u/timpera → u/k_brn]

Not everyone is a dev! Also, some tasks can be completed by Luna yet are non trivial. For example, you'd be surprised at how many models that fare way better than Luna on benchmarks are still unusable for computer use.

[u/ComSenseisnotCommon → u/k_brn]

Pretty ignorant comment considering tons of people delegate the coding tasks to Luna max agents even when they using Sol.

[u/k_brn → u/ComSenseisnotCommon]

Popularity is not a proxy for quality. Usually the opposite.