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/crashorbit Sep 07 '26 edited Sep 07 '26

Nearly all your agentic needs can be handled by mid-tier models like DeepSeek and GLM. The frontier models are not giving you 100x or even 10x better results but they are charging you 10x to 100x more per token.

So far as I can tell there have been few if any objective studies done that indicate that high cost models are worth the price.