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.