alt Hacker News2.5x more expensive than Sol. Can expect 2.5x more usage in Codex subscription.
Sol is already brutal (even after their recent fixes, it's just a token-hungry model: I go through a full 20x account per day, on Sol Med/High standard speed, with ~2 threads).
Note that Tibo recommended using Sol Med as daily driver. When I'm doing less complicated work, I can't even make it past 2-3 days with Sol Med, whereas I was able to work ~80 hours/week with 5.5 High.
I hope the efficiency gains are true, since their token efficiency claims for Sol were bullshit. Sol needs a lot of rework on top of its inefficiencies so this could net out to less token consumption overall, if their claims are more accurate this time.
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>token-hungry model
It's kind of funny how this is the exact opposite of the truth. It's one of the most token-efficient models ever.
The claims aren't bullshit. Every conceivable benchmark and test you can throw at it shows Sol being good for token efficiency.
Jesus what are you doing that requires Sol usage so often?
Terra not enough? I know Luna isn't reliable, so that's fair.
Genuinely curious though, because I use Cursor daily and almost everything I do, highly complex or high volume, can be handled with Auto mode or Composer 2.5 (or Grok 4.6 High). So I have to assume you're doing something far more complex than what I am
looping sol twice most likely.
The general efficiency of Sol has seemed way better to me. I left 5.6 Sol Ultra standard speed run for ~23 hours yesterday/today on a project and used 80% of the weekly usage. 74 subagent tasks and ~2.5 billion tokens for my $200 20x Pro plan. Meanwhile at work I used $1000 in credit and ran out my $200 plan for the entire month writing 4 much smaller projects with Fable 5 Max.
Both of these were largely about creating a personal baseline for what the best output the current models could deliver and how quickly it'd burn through the plans (spoiler: bad value vs taking even minimal effort in selecting the right sized model in the plan... but the output was still good). Particularly since I needed to burn a free reset anyways and my weekly reset was already near.
I obviously also hope Astra were dirt cheap but I'm more worried they won't develop/release powerful model options because people get upset they can't run them 5 wide 24/7 on a $200/m plan.