ChatGPT Users Struggle With Astra Pricing and Availability
21 posts across 2 communities in the last 60 days; 95% from r/ChatGPT.
“I am having SO MANY issues today with Astra. I have a Pro subscription, and was using Astra Extra High. Not only are chats timing out and forcing me to make new ones, but now it can't access files from Library, view previous chats with shared links, and now it can't even make…”
“I have the Plus plan $20/mo. Astra Low can burn 30% of my 5-hr limit, and Astra Ultra sometimes can't even finish running without a reset.”
“I'm honestly shocked ._. I originally thought that GPT 6 Astra would only be for premium but looks like it's not.”
Users are expressing concerns about the cost of using GPT 6 Astra, reporting significantly higher prices compared to standard models. There's also confusion regarding its availability for Plus subscribers and questions about the future of older models like Sol.
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“I'm honestly shocked ._. I originally thought that GPT 6 Astra would only be for premium but looks like it's not. submitted by /u/Szymek7903 [link] [comments]”
it cost me 3% of 5-hour limit submitted by /u/ZloeBus [link] [comments]
“Astra max isn’t worth it I got 6 mins out of it with pro before I burned my usage lmao”
“Considering paying users had free reset for their ChatGPT Work allocation if they’ve been hit by the delay of Astra deployment, do you think we might also have a compensation in form of credit / usage threshold reset for the downtime yesterday. Don’t want to sound stingy but I’ve burn almost all in 2 days lol submitted by /u/PerspectiveDue5403 [link] [comments]”
“hey guys! I'm a college student and need access to gpt 6 astra for a little assignment that has gotten too complex for the other simpler models to help with. does anyone know if there are any free demo credits or something i can use? submitted by /u/idk00999 [link] [comments]”
“I am having SO MANY issues today with Astra. I have a Pro subscription, and was using Astra Extra High. Not only are chats timing out and forcing me to make new ones, but now it can't access files from Library, view previous chats with shared links, and now it can't even make GitHub repositories (which it has done for me before with Sol). It cannot recall anything from its workspace, and it doesn't even finish tasks and give outputs. It will instead just finish a response and make me”
“I have the Plus plan $20/mo. Astra Low can burn 30% of my 5-hr limit, and Astra Ultra sometimes can't even finish running without a reset. submitted by /u/considerthis8 [link] [comments]”
“Never, for real. Astra is the equivalent to GPT Pro, it's to expensive to put it in Chat for us.”
“Astra came out and I didn't want to lock in 20+ euros a month just to find out if it's actually better than GPT-5 for what I do. So I spent the last few days testing it the cheap way. Some multi-model platforms already have Astra on their entry tier. I used Brome AI, 9.90 euros gets you Astra plus Claude, Gemini and Mistral in one interface (Poe and Mammouth do something similar). The point is you get the model for less than half the Plus price and you can run the exact same prompt throu”
“I dont care about slow and overpriced.let it run and its still cheap. If they had one that was better but even slower and more expensive id take that”
“Hello, I've been a little out of the loop lately, and today I stumbled upon some totally crazy videos of games supposedly created with Astra (i.e., https://x.com/MengTo/status/2097291240672993773 ) I’d like to give it a try, but I’d like to know which subscription plan can produce something like this in as few sessions as possible? I imagine the Plus plan doesn’t allow it, but is it possible with Pro 5x? I also don’t know how many tokens are used to achieve these kinds of results, but maybe”
“I tried to use it just to make a new Pet and it only worked 7 minutes before hitting limit! It's just a few images!”
“Just updated a bookkeeping excel sheet around 15 minutes and it was used up when done. Astra medium. And using it for my narrative story it wrote one episode and a few followups and it was used up. Has never happened with sol.”
“When astra dropped i was able to make 2 apps and game. Now it just runs out of credits. Methinks they figured they gave too much away too quickly? Not paying $100 to $200 to make something that only cost $20, 24 hours prior. And when I wait for the time limit to expire, the chat is hung up, it won't pick up where it left off and I basically have to start over. That seems like a bait and switch to me, Altman. submitted by /u/ismellmyownfarts2 [link] [comments]”
“curious and fearful to try out lol submitted by /u/Affectionate-Army213 [link] [comments]”
“https://reddit.com/link/1w9nya5/video/e1vx5vsam2oh1/player It's been working non stop and after a day of working, it requires a reset, which btw I dont have infinite. Ima have to wait till the 11, which will make the development take for ever. dont get me wrong, astra is really good, but for any meaningful use, the 200$ a month subscription simply doesn't give you enough tokens. I wish they gave more tokens for a subscription that's costing me 200$ a month, they should give twice as”
“How is your experience with Astra so far? submitted by /u/Garaad252 [link] [comments]”
“I’m a $20/mo Plus subscriber. This is the first time that I’ve used the app at all today. Saw that Astra had been released and decided to ask a fairly simple question. It worked for 39 minutes, and then I never even got the answer to the question because it hit the 5 hour usage limit. What the heck is the point of being a paying customer if it’s not even able to answer a single question? submitted by /u/Jazzlike-Cup-5336 [link] [comments]”
“Nah, I've seen companion users get mad too. They are demanding that Astra be in Chat mode without limits which is ridiculous.”
“For me, Astra has already become more of a selective task assistant. Can you run this and check that, great back to something lighter.”
“yeah i’m guessing plus gets it eventually, but rn it really feels like Astra is paywalled behind paywalled 😭”