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Astra vs Opus 5.5: token usage comparison
The post claims Astra High uses about 12k tokens per task versus roughly 66k for Opus 5.5, a 5.5x efficiency gap, and speculates that OpenAI has a stronger teacher model in reserve.
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@VraserXArchived 29 days agoOriginally posted 2026.10.05
VraserX e/acc @VraserXOriginally posted 2026.10.05
Token for token, GPT-6 Astra doesn’t just beat Opus 5.5. It annihilates it. Astra High uses ~12k tokens per task. Opus 5.5 needs ~66k. That’s 5.5× the token efficiency while Astra is still more intelligent pound for pound. Now think about what that implies. If Astra is the distilled model, what the hell was the teacher? OpenAI could have an internal mode lurking behind the curtain that makes Opus 5.5 and Fable 5.5 look obsolete before we’ve even seen it.
x.com/vraserx/status/2107094957035307174Archived 2026.10.06 10:03