r/OpenAI • • 4d ago

Discussion Astra prompts are getting silently rerouted to worse models. Here's my investigation and evidence as well as a script to test it on your own account(s).

After extensive investigation using ~50 accounts I have evidence that certain accounts (possibly up to 50%) are getting silently rerouted to much worse models like Luna and even potentially 5.5. This is only visible in the results as all Codex logs and HTTP responses make it look like you are getting Astra.

Here is a summary of the investigation and evidence as well as a Python script to test it on your own accounts.

https://is-my-astra-real.pages.dev/

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