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

The poster calls for a genuinely major release, saying Sonnet surpassing Astra on Artificial Analysis was unexpected, and is curious how OpenAI will implement dots/o/aeon differently.

The account lists what DevDay may release, including an O agent, GPT-6.1/6.5 Astra, a new $500 tier and a hardware device.

The third-party routing platform says Sonnet 5.5 is 30% faster and cheaper than the previous version, with intelligence comparable to GPT-6 Astra (max).

With the same prompt at xhigh reasoning, Astra took about 15 minutes and $16 while Sonnet 5.5 took about 25 minutes and $3, and the author says Sonnet's output is clearly better.

The poster says Sonnet 5.5 has heavy usage and strong output, feels comparable to Opus 5.5, and asserts it beats GPT-6 Astra, with benchmark data still to come.

An unverified list-style leak claims OpenAI's DevDay will bring GPT-6.1/5 Astra, a $500 subscription, a new hardware device, a merger of ChatGPT and Work, and other releases.

On one identical prompt, Astra Max took about 30 minutes and cost $23.19, while Sonnet 5.5 took about 15 minutes and cost only $1.50.

On Artificial Analysis, Sonnet 5.5 at its highest setting scores 56, above GPT-6 Astra's 53, but it uses roughly 7 times more tokens per task than Astra.

A blogger compares mid-tier models: Sonnet 5.5 gains 18 points at the same price, while GPT-6 Astra scores 53 and GPT-6 Sol 48, arguing the claim of AI slowing down does not hold.

The poster argues that unless OpenAI ships Terra 6, Sol 6.1 and Astra 6.1 to take on Sonnet 5.5, Opus 5.5 and Fable 5.5 respectively, an "o agent" won't save the day.

The same prompt generates a stretchable, spinnable 3D jellyfish: the Sonnet version is more transparent with thin tentacles, the Astra version plumper and gummy, but its API cost is more than double.

The user complains that Anthropic and Google advertise their per-token prices while, at the same intelligence level, they are still far more expensive than OpenAI's Astra.