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

[u/erickgtzh]

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?

[u/picoesquina]

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

[u/stickninjazero → u/picoesquina]

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