So the hype finally got to me. Everyone’s been talking about Astra nonstop, so I upgraded my ChatGPT sub to Pro to see what the fuss was about. Probably the worst money I’ve spent in a while, at least for the kind of work I do. For context, I’m on Claude’s Max 20x plan and I used it for literally everything for a full week without ever hitting the limit. With Astra, I hit the limit on the first day working on just one project. After it reset I tried to be more careful and optimize how I was using it, and it still burned through everything way too fast. To be fair, it’s not all bad. I gave it an editing task in Canva and it actually did a really nice job. But failed with Final Cut Pro tasks. So when I looked at what it produced compared to how much usage it ate up, that one job ended up being really expensive. Maybe it’s great at other stuff, videos, game dev, whatever. But for web design and coding it’s noticeably worse than Claude, and design in general still feels like a weak spot. That said, maybe the prompting just works differently than with Claude and part of this is on me. I’m trying to keep that in mind so I’m not being completely biased, or at least that’s what I’m telling myself to feel better. submitted by /u/chonkvandelay
Originally posted by u/chonkvandelay on r/ClaudeCode
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