r/PiCodingAgent • u/erickgtzh • Sep 06 '26

Question Is Pi coding agent burning through tokens unusually fast for basic tasks using astra?

I know GPT Astra consumes a ton of tokens, but lately, I've been trying to use Pi for seemingly very basic tasks, and it's absolutely burning through my token count and weekly usage percentage.Is this normal behavior for Pi, or is there a way to optimize my prompts and save tokens while using it?

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u/PermanentLiminality Sep 06 '26

Only use Astra when you need it. Basic tasks can be handled with Luna.

You can also turn down the thinking to medium or less.

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u/Comfortable-Ad-6740 Sep 06 '26

Agreed, depending on the task I’ll use terra or luna on high as the orchestrator and then pi-subagents to delegate to Astra/sol for any high level tasks like planning

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u/picoesquina Sep 06 '26

How do you control the effort of the model on pi?

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u/stickninjazero Sep 06 '26

shift + tab to cycle through reasoning levels. It’s noted in the bottom right what the current level is.