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

OpenRouter lists GPT-6.1 Terra, which matches GPT-6 Astra on Agents' Last Exam and finishes tasks over 3x faster than Astra and Sol, at $1/$5 per million tokens with 1.05M context.

A post claims GPT-6.1 Terra is over 3x more token-efficient than Opus 5.5 and 9x cheaper per task, while finishing tasks over 3x faster than GPT-6 Astra and 6.1 Sol.

Finn says Terra passes Astra on some tests at 3x the speed and one-tenth the price, built for personal agents, while he still uses Astra on fast settings for coding.

A French-language post details GPT-6.1 Terra's API pricing, speed and benchmarks: it matches GPT-6 Astra on Agents' Last Exam at one-tenth the per-token cost, runs over 3x faster than Astra and Sol, and is live in ChatGPT Work, Codex and the API.

OpenAI releases the fast, low-cost Terra, up 15 points on a PC-operation benchmark over GPT-5.6 Terra and near Astra performance at roughly a tenth of the token price.

Terra scores 60.0% on Agents' Last Exam versus GPT-6 Astra's 59.3%, at $1.01 per task versus $7.24, but trails badly on Terminal-Bench coding.

A user asks OpenAI what reason there is to use the new model over Opus 5.5 and calls for a frontier model genuinely better than Astra 6.

The author says using Astra/6.1 Sol for Samsung reverse engineering got the account banned because normal technical terms tripped daybreak's content tripwire, while users who obfuscate their wording avoid problems.

In a Vals AI simulated refund scenario, GPT-6 Astra researched rail regulator rules and contacted free university legal clinics, while Grok 4.7 burned its token budget on 187 messages and Fable 5.1 leaked private data; no model recovered the refund.

Testing bug-hunting with GPT-6 Astra MAX on the $20 Codex plan used 17M tokens over 1.3 hours, about $22.26 of API usage, wiping out the weekly quota and leading the author to estimate only ~$90 of monthly value versus earlier subsidies.

A video comparing GPT-6 Astra against Claude Opus 5.5 side by side for people choosing between the two models.

The poster argues OpenAI's products, infrastructure and models are lagging, saying 6.1 Astra needs to be a major leap to turn things around.