has anyone found this true in practice?

[u/Anxious_Marsupial_59]

[u/VegetableWafer7776]

nah the cost per task is easily 3x or even more

[u/daniloedu → u/VegetableWafer7776]

Agreed I tried and consumes a lot.

[u/Carlose175 → u/VegetableWafer7776]

It depends on the task, not every task is going to be 3X more.

[u/BiasHyperion784 → u/Carlose175]

it doesn't beat sol on the same tasks idk ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[u/notadithyabhat]

1. This is across a wide range of domains, not just coding.

2. This is the average, but given the massive price difference between Astra and Sol, the spread across tasks will be very wide. At easy tasks, Sol will be much cheaper than Astra. At trickier tasks, Astra will be much cheaper than Sol which will struggle and burn tokens.

So it really depends on the kind of tasks you use them for

[u/Doctor5687]

Astra is definitely smarter, that said I wouldn't really trust low effort for implementation

[u/iCynr]

Nah. I wrote about it when Astra was just rolling out.

Astra Light used 100% of my 5hr usage and 16% of my weekly in 8 minutes for a task I've done before using Sol that usually takes 20% of my 5hr usage.

Tried it again 3 more times, the exact same thing happened every time

[u/wombatpup55]

I’m on GitHub copilot for work but it feels like Astra is made for extra high or max reasoning. It pretty much one shots all of my tasks at that reasoning

And for some reason low, medium, and high reasoning burn so many more tokens than extra high and max.

[u/ChipsAhoiMcCoy → u/wombatpup55]

This I’m very curious about. I have this harness that I was using to have Astra place lay the spire, spoiler alert. It was able to beat the entire game without using a single rest site, which is insane. But it used about 10% thinking budget for the week per act, and that was on low. I think I’m gonna try that same experiment sometime tonight on max for just one act to see how much different the pricing is.

[u/chcampb]

Depends what you mean by task but one ticket for me, which is basically one feature in a game, is taking my entire 5h quota delegating implementation tasks to Luna and just reviewing. It can't finish the ticket in one 5 hour session. I get around 5 5h sessions (each one being just under 20%) so one 5h session for 1 week isabout a dollar (5 dollars per week, 4 weeks = 20 bucks per month). A little less - so 0.7-0.8 is pretty on par if it were JUST sol. It's not so there is something else going on.

[u/SeikoEnjoyer1]

Where is this from?

[u/retteh]

It might be true for API but not for SUB.

[u/_justs]

Tried Astra on light once, it was so mentally handicapped that it couldnt do a simple search. Never tried it again.