Astra needs heavy prompting and burns usage, one user says

leo 🐾 @synthwaveddOriginally posted 2026.09.25

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Using Claude regularly again has made obvious one of the biggest differences between Anthropic and OpenAI models: taste GPT (Astra included) just doesn't really compete. Sure, you can get ~similar quality outputs with enough prompting, time and effort, but Opus 5.5 just combines great taste, intuition and vision in a way no model before it has. While being incredibly usage-light in Claude subs, something that cannot be said about Astra A big step in the right direction in all sorts of ways for Anthropic, and I'm excited to see what they have in store soon for Haiku, Sonnet and Fable