GPT-6 Astra in Practice: Tests, Use Cases, and Feedback

Given the same prompt to build something that looks like themselves, Astra made a 3D black display with a backlight and a robot while Sonnet 5.5 made a white platform with orange beams; Astra was also faster and cheaper (2:37 / $0.06 vs 3:02 / $0.09).

An Arabic-speaking creator gives a simplified walkthrough of the Codex main interface, citing GPT-6 Astra official docs as references.

A user complains that 20x limits were cut in half, that Dots will share the Codex usage pool in a month, and that Astra is extremely slow to respond.

The robot explores a room to remember where items are stored and fetches medicine on request, achieved by removing the intermediate action layer so GPT calls five existing skills directly.

A Turkish user says Astra's Ultrafast weekly limit is exhausted in half an hour on the $500 plan, complaining the quota runs out too fast.

Someone listed how long each GPT generation lasted, from GPT-1 to GPT-6.1 Sol, showing the spans getting shorter toward the end, with Astra at 19 days, Sol at 7 days, and the newest generation just one day old.

OpenAI launched dots, a 24-hour cloud agent built on GPT-6 Astra, but the dot.com domain redirects to Elon Musk's Grok Bot, and Pro subscribers in Europe cannot use it yet.

A short list naming GPT-6.1 Sol, GPT-6 Astra Ultrafast, Dots, Space, and ChatGPT in Slack as the author's personal favorites.

The author used prompts generated with Claude Fable 5 and GPT-6 Astra, together with Suno and ChatGPT Images 2.5, to create a JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 6 fan theme.

A video compares GPT-6.1 Sol, GPT-6 Sol, Claude Sonnet 5.5 and GPT-6 Astra, concluding that Sonnet 5.5 outperforms Astra and GPT-6 Sol has fallen behind.

Someone used GPT-6 Astra to make a Tesla Super Bowl-style AI ad, and the video has been released.

After DevDay, Pro comes in four tiers: Plus at 1x, $100 at 5x, $200 at 10x and $500 at 25x, with only the $500 tier including Ultrafast, where GPT-6 Astra tokens run up to 8x faster in Codex.