EDIT: this doesn't say anything about availability on either Azure or AWS. I'm assuming it will show up later, but it would be interesting if it didn't.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"potwinkle","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:04:34.000Z","created_at_i":1790100274,"id":49805564,"options":[],"parent_id":49805509,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Very nice in cost/1mtok. Looks like more work is being done for efficient everyday helper models as time goes on.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"Readerium","children":[{"author":"hehimself","children":[{"author":"Readerium","children":[{"author":"blovescoffee","children":[{"author":"pinkgolem","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:46:37.000Z","created_at_i":1790102797,"id":49806193,"options":[],"parent_id":49805936,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"that might depend on usecase, half of my cost is cache reads usally","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:27:45.000Z","created_at_i":1790101665,"id":49805936,"options":[],"parent_id":49805763,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"cost is dominated by non cached reads","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:16:55.000Z","created_at_i":1790101015,"id":49805763,"options":[],"parent_id":49805592,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Same price on Cache Reads 0.2/M\nSo won't be 50 percent cheaper, more like 25% cheaper assuming half cost is cache read.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:05:46.000Z","created_at_i":1790100346,"id":49805592,"options":[],"parent_id":49805569,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Not the direct competitor to Opus 5.5, cuz 6 Sol is 50% cheaper.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:04:45.000Z","created_at_i":1790100285,"id":49805569,"options":[],"parent_id":49805509,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Opus 5.5 seems better? \nCan someone attach both scores","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"droidjj","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:04:48.000Z","created_at_i":1790100288,"id":49805572,"options":[],"parent_id":49805509,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Not only is GPT-6 Luna better, it's 50% cheaper. It was already practically free on a pro plan.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"nickandbro","children":[{"author":"physicallyIllfr","children":[{"author":"blovescoffee","children":[{"author":"physicallyIllfr","children":[{"author":"jpadkins","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T20:16:55.000Z","created_at_i":1790108215,"id":49807482,"options":[],"parent_id":49806532,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Has there ever been an instance in history when this strategy worked?\nPlato argued that writing things down will make your memory worse, and less skilled as a debater (kind of true!) \nHow are the Luddites doing at textiles?\nI remember the arguments that using 'high level languages' like C and Pascal will make you not understand machine specific details (kind of true!)
I respect that you want to learn how things are done, that is a great trait. But once you learn how its done, you should use the tools to free up cognitive load for more difficult tasks.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:08:25.000Z","created_at_i":1790104105,"id":49806532,"options":[],"parent_id":49805985,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"I prefer to do these things myself and grow my competency.
This will make me more valuable in the future when everyone has lost the ability to do anything on their own.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:30:47.000Z","created_at_i":1790101847,"id":49805985,"options":[],"parent_id":49805919,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"1. you can have luna clean up after itself and improve code 2. you might be doing something like video-editing, cad modeling, artistic direction, pcb routing, etc. that need to run a long time to "converge"","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"minimaxir","children":[{"author":"physicallyIllfr","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:09:41.000Z","created_at_i":1790104181,"id":49806556,"options":[],"parent_id":49806323,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"No its not I use llms just as much as the next guy and not even fable can keep a codebase organized on long running unspervised tasks.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:56:05.000Z","created_at_i":1790103365,"id":49806323,"options":[],"parent_id":49805919,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Luna is fine. It's not Claude Sonnet 3.5.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"thimabi","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:11:43.000Z","created_at_i":1790104303,"id":49806590,"options":[],"parent_id":49805919,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Not all tasks require frontier intelligence. If you\u2019ve got an easy, but tedious workflow, Luna can be quite good at that.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:26:51.000Z","created_at_i":1790101611,"id":49805919,"options":[],"parent_id":49805613,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Why would you do this though, surely these long running /goal tasks just like letting a wild animal out into your code base.
Does anyone care about code quality anymore?","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:06:21.000Z","created_at_i":1790100381,"id":49805613,"options":[],"parent_id":49805509,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Pricing is insane, can have Luna going after a goal for 10 days and not run into maxing out the limits.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"pookieinc","children":[{"author":"thereitgoes456","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:08:08.000Z","created_at_i":1790100488,"id":49805641,"options":[],"parent_id":49805615,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"These don\u2019t necessarily reflect actual costs, OpenAI is not profitable and nowhere near. They\u2019ve lost their market lead and Sam may feel they need to get it back with any means necessary.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"giancarlostoro","children":[{"author":"andybak","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:14:53.000Z","created_at_i":1790104493,"id":49806634,"options":[],"parent_id":49805658,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"If you told us which model that was or roughly when, then your comment would be more helpful.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:09:11.000Z","created_at_i":1790100551,"id":49805658,"options":[],"parent_id":49805615,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"The last time I gave GPT a shot, it ate all my tokens and got nothing meaningful done.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"Readerium","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:09:12.000Z","created_at_i":1790100552,"id":49805659,"options":[],"parent_id":49805615,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"A vs B
Should be B vs A correct?
Else it's confusing","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"bitmasher9","children":[{"author":"wyre","children":[{"author":"atq2119","children":[{"author":"wyre","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:59:02.000Z","created_at_i":1790103542,"id":49806352,"options":[],"parent_id":49806040,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Ya, are LLM's not a great example of Jevon's paradox? I don't think Jevon's needs all else being equal. The paradox being that we should be able to use things less because they are more efficient, when instead they get used more.
Surely, a large part of the increase of the demand in LLMs is in their intelligence, but to hit the demand models needed to be made more efficient, and labs found that more efficient models, still demanded more usage.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:34:13.000Z","created_at_i":1790102053,"id":49806040,"options":[],"parent_id":49805867,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"FWIW, what you're describing is a simple demand curve, not Jevons paradox.
The "paradox" is when an increase in efficiency which would decrease the use of a resource all else equal, instead indirectly causes more use.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:23:10.000Z","created_at_i":1790101390,"id":49805867,"options":[],"parent_id":49805661,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Any business would charge more if they could. Jevon's paradox would mean that they can make more money by charging less because demand is going to keep growing.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"blovescoffee","children":[{"author":"blubber","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:28:55.000Z","created_at_i":1790101735,"id":49805960,"options":[],"parent_id":49805868,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"They also have postponed their IPO. So they don't have to be profitable that soon. Anthropic on the other hand plans to do the IPO this fall.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"vanuatu","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:39:14.000Z","created_at_i":1790102354,"id":49806107,"options":[],"parent_id":49805868,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"HN discovers competition leads to lower prices","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:23:19.000Z","created_at_i":1790101399,"id":49805868,"options":[],"parent_id":49805661,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Of course they'd charge more if they could... Of course they're pricing to outcompete their competitor...","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"Shekelphile","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:49:31.000Z","created_at_i":1790102971,"id":49806229,"options":[],"parent_id":49805661,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"They're cutting prices because they want to cannabalize the market for people using models like deepseek via API as well as people paying for anthropic subs.
When they cut prices on luna the first time around they took (literally) millions of users from anthropic.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:09:23.000Z","created_at_i":1790100563,"id":49805661,"options":[],"parent_id":49805615,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"GPT would charge more if they could. Both companies need way way more revenue. GPT simply made a calculation that they can earn more money by charging less than their competitors.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"mchusma","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:11:02.000Z","created_at_i":1790100662,"id":49805683,"options":[],"parent_id":49805615,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Opus 5.5 is incredible so far, its going to get used. Fable is much better than Astra for me in practice, and Sol is not marketed as better.
Its a great release, I will use both heavily.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"etothet","children":[{"author":"esafak","children":[{"author":"etothet","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:58:11.000Z","created_at_i":1790103491,"id":49806345,"options":[],"parent_id":49806154,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Just because a provider is charging less, doesn't mean their cost went down. This is probably especially true with the big players that are trying to stay competitive.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:44:00.000Z","created_at_i":1790102640,"id":49806154,"options":[],"parent_id":49805695,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"It should matter; if their costs go down you'll get more usage.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:12:27.000Z","created_at_i":1790100747,"id":49805695,"options":[],"parent_id":49805615,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"For API usage, sure. But plenty of people have subscriptions where these differences effectively don\u2019t matter.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"mfiguiere","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:13:08.000Z","created_at_i":1790100788,"id":49805710,"options":[],"parent_id":49805615,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Also, batch processing prices are still 50% off, which put GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna at $5 and $0.25 for output.
https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/pricing?latest-pricin...","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"onlyrealcuzzo","children":[{"author":"charliegoforit","children":[{"author":"wyre","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:24:14.000Z","created_at_i":1790101454,"id":49805883,"options":[],"parent_id":49805818,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"they said quota so i would imagine the $200 subscription. Probably through Codex or Pi coding agents.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"onlyrealcuzzo","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:33:28.000Z","created_at_i":1790102008,"id":49806031,"options":[],"parent_id":49805818,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"$200/mo
A lot of what I'm doing has pretty expensive build/testing processes between iterations - even on a 40 core machine - so I'm not burning tokens 24/7 like some people may.
I'd guess I'm probably spending >50% of the time running tests & build processes & tooling and the remainder is purely burning tokens.
I also have some internal tooling (that I will hopefully open source soon) that makes LLMs substantially more correct (thus more efficient) - so there's that, too.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:20:12.000Z","created_at_i":1790101212,"id":49805818,"options":[],"parent_id":49805731,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"How much does it cost you per month to have that much sol high usage and what do you use, api? Through what? Thank you","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"adam_arthur","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:56:36.000Z","created_at_i":1790103396,"id":49806327,"options":[],"parent_id":49805731,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"You can now start to add automations on top of typical dev flows.
There are a ton of use cases that open up with cheaper models.
E.g. extensive security scanning on every PR, quality scans, adversarial reviews etc","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:14:34.000Z","created_at_i":1790100874,"id":49805731,"options":[],"parent_id":49805615,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"I could already run Sol High on 3 concurrent side projects 24/7 and not run out of quota.
This is great, but practically, I'm not going to start working on more side projects.
Perhaps in another 6-12 months I'll be fine to drop down to $20/m instead of $200.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"shmoil","children":[{"author":"blovescoffee","children":[{"author":"s3p","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:28:54.000Z","created_at_i":1790105334,"id":49806846,"options":[],"parent_id":49805874,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"then it should be GPT 5.6 Sol vs. GPT 6 Sol","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:23:49.000Z","created_at_i":1790101429,"id":49805874,"options":[],"parent_id":49805779,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"It's before and after following the arrow. 6 is the cheaper one.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"yzydserd","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:28:32.000Z","created_at_i":1790101712,"id":49805951,"options":[],"parent_id":49805779,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Yes very poor proofreading!","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"jameshart","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:45:25.000Z","created_at_i":1790102725,"id":49806176,"options":[],"parent_id":49805779,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"This is how the price cut is portrayed on OpenAI\u2019s site. They are trying to say the prices have moved from the higher ones to the lower ones.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:17:50.000Z","created_at_i":1790101070,"id":49805779,"options":[],"parent_id":49805615,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":">> GPT\u20116 Sol vs. GPT\u20115.6 Sol
>> $4 \u2192 $2
>> $20 \u2192 $10
Do you mean 100% more expensive? GPT 6 is 100% more expensive than 5.6 per your post.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"edf13","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:20:11.000Z","created_at_i":1790101211,"id":49805817,"options":[],"parent_id":49805615,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"You also need to compare allowances on Codex vs. Claude Code","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"dyauspitr","children":[{"author":"Readerium","children":[{"author":"dyauspitr","children":[{"author":"MaKey","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:32:07.000Z","created_at_i":1790101927,"id":49806007,"options":[],"parent_id":49805895,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Exactly","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"Readerium","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:35:18.000Z","created_at_i":1790102118,"id":49806055,"options":[],"parent_id":49805895,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Yes that is number of reasoning tokens used.
Performance increases both with larger model (Luna vs Sol)
And with more reasoning (low vs xhigh)","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:24:57.000Z","created_at_i":1790101497,"id":49805895,"options":[],"parent_id":49805847,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Then what is Astra high-extra high-Ultra? That\u2019s effort within each tier?","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:21:48.000Z","created_at_i":1790101308,"id":49805847,"options":[],"parent_id":49805828,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Number is generation\nName is the size (Luna smallest to Astra largest)","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"hersko","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:49:29.000Z","created_at_i":1790106569,"id":49807120,"options":[],"parent_id":49805828,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Just released 6-Sol and 6-luna a few hours ago","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:20:31.000Z","created_at_i":1790101231,"id":49805828,"options":[],"parent_id":49805615,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Wtf is GPT-6 Sol, I though GPT-6 is Astra?","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"LZ_Khan","children":[{"author":"AustinDev","children":[{"author":"solenoid0937","children":[{"author":"vanuatu","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:38:37.000Z","created_at_i":1790102317,"id":49806100,"options":[],"parent_id":49805932,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"source? p sure they said they were confident they did not access the researcher's chats","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:27:20.000Z","created_at_i":1790101640,"id":49805932,"options":[],"parent_id":49805862,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Well we know for a fact that OpenAI steals Millennium Problem work from researchers. Have we seen anything similar from Anthropic?","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:22:55.000Z","created_at_i":1790101375,"id":49805862,"options":[],"parent_id":49805846,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"and anthropic won't? or any other inference provider? Running your own inference either locally or remotely are probably the only ways to make sure that doesn't happen.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"nradov","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:24:23.000Z","created_at_i":1790101463,"id":49805885,"options":[],"parent_id":49805846,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"What are you working on? Is any of it actually worth stealing?","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"OutOfHere","children":[{"author":"redanddead","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:48:45.000Z","created_at_i":1790102925,"id":49806219,"options":[],"parent_id":49806070,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":">so you'll be grateful for an AI that thinks like you do when it comes to your line of work.
Highly subjective take
What kind of work do you do, out of curiosity","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"copperx","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:50:09.000Z","created_at_i":1790103009,"id":49806235,"options":[],"parent_id":49806070,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Are you really comparing LLMs to brains?","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:36:37.000Z","created_at_i":1790102197,"id":49806070,"options":[],"parent_id":49805846,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"And why is that bad? As your brain gets older, it will not remain so clever, so you'll be grateful for an AI that thinks like you do when it comes to your line of work, failing which the quality of your output could recede like your hairline.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"trentor","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:55:42.000Z","created_at_i":1790103342,"id":49806316,"options":[],"parent_id":49805846,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"See I will never use anthropic because they run inference on spacex. Wat den een sien Uhl, is den annern sien Nachtigall.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:21:43.000Z","created_at_i":1790101303,"id":49805846,"options":[],"parent_id":49805615,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Disagree. I would never use OpenAI cause they're probably just going to steal whatever I'm working on.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"an0malous","children":[{"author":"solenoid0937","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:24:55.000Z","created_at_i":1790101495,"id":49805894,"options":[],"parent_id":49805878,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Before IPO. This is why Anthropic isn't playing the same games","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"blovescoffee","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:34:26.000Z","created_at_i":1790102066,"id":49806045,"options":[],"parent_id":49805878,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"there are still competitive market forces for co's post IPO","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"selectodude","children":[{"author":"infinitezest","children":[{"author":"derac","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T20:02:42.000Z","created_at_i":1790107362,"id":49807300,"options":[],"parent_id":49806247,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"If the market crashes they will be much cheaper to run actually, no? Hardware would flood the market.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"fragmede","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T20:42:35.000Z","created_at_i":1790109755,"id":49807790,"options":[],"parent_id":49806247,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"It seems silly to say we have no idea when we actually do, though. We know how much hardware costs, we know how to reliably run a webservice that hits an API hosted on a machine with a GPU, we know how to operate these things at scale outside of OpenAI and Anthropic (not Nvidia). VC money can be patient, Uber's profitable, yeah $1 Uber rides got us hooked and they're running the same playbook. Unfortunately the convenience is worth paying for, so it seems dumb to think we can control the beast or ignore it, or get everyone to agree to hold back.
Is there a world where OpenAI starts charging $2,000/month for what we previously were paying $20 for? What are we going to do? AWS could totally jack up the prices for EC2 instances as well, but we've come to rely on that as well.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:51:09.000Z","created_at_i":1790103069,"id":49806247,"options":[],"parent_id":49806075,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"You're building your livelihood/workflows on a set of inputs that you have no idea what they actually cost or how reliable they'll be when the VC cash stops flowing. If you're OK with that, do your thing but it seems a little foolish to me.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:37:19.000Z","created_at_i":1790102239,"id":49806075,"options":[],"parent_id":49805878,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Okay? I didn\u2019t sign a 10 year contract. We\u2019re month to month and I use my own harness.
If they\u2019re subsidizing my usage, that\u2019s great.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"minimaxir","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:16:57.000Z","created_at_i":1790104617,"id":49806667,"options":[],"parent_id":49805878,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"That would only work if OpenAI were a monopoly, which they are not.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:23:57.000Z","created_at_i":1790101437,"id":49805878,"options":[],"parent_id":49805615,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"These are the pre rug pull prices. They'll increase prices 10x and nerf the models after they IPO.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"persedes","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:28:22.000Z","created_at_i":1790101702,"id":49805949,"options":[],"parent_id":49805615,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Not that anthropic models are very good at this, but due to the changes in tokenizers and thinking tokens: cost per token is not as helpful anymore as cost / task.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"joshstrange","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:30:27.000Z","created_at_i":1790101827,"id":49805978,"options":[],"parent_id":49805615,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"As someone who has used Claude Code and Codex the prices don't matter in the same way but I found that I burned through my usage way faster on Codex even though I regularly hear that the Codex plans go further. That was not my experience and the intelligence was comparable to what I was getting in Claude.
If these price changes mean that coding plans have effectively more usage then that's great, but Codex is surviving on resets from my own experience using it. I was glad to go back to Claude.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"hombre_fatal","children":[{"author":"jorl17","children":[{"author":"user43928","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T20:32:29.000Z","created_at_i":1790109149,"id":49807666,"options":[],"parent_id":49806957,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"It also feels slow for me and compacts often.
However, it is not a 'token eating machine'. In fact it uses a third of the output tokens of Opus 5.5, Fable 5.1, or Opus 5.
17k for Astra xhigh vs 61-66k.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:37:17.000Z","created_at_i":1790105837,"id":49806957,"options":[],"parent_id":49806051,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Astra is:
- Unbearably slow
- A token eating machine like no other
- Constantly compacting
- A model (like other GPT ones) that hides thinking traces and thinking summaries, which infuriates me
I've been in the Claude camp for a while, but the way it writes has left me with a a brick for a brain and wanted to see if Astra was as good as they say. Well, I can't know, because in the time it takes for it to actually build anything useful, I've moved to other ideas.
Unbearably, annoyingly slow. I keep thinking I must be doing something wrong.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:34:44.000Z","created_at_i":1790102084,"id":49806051,"options":[],"parent_id":49805615,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"I mainly use Codex/Sol to review my plans drafted by Fable. But beyond that, Astra blows through usage limits too fast to be a daily driver and writes weird code despite what my "house style" is, and Codex is behind Claude Code in terms of critical features like seeing what's going on in subagents.
The parent + subagent workflow has become critical for keeping the reasoning agent (parent) context-lean while also letting me chat to the main agent while work is getting done.
My main process is to use Fable to reason and then spawn Opus subagents, and I get amazing results, and I'm always looking into what the subagents are doing.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"ignoramous","children":[{"author":"minimaxir","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:18:16.000Z","created_at_i":1790104696,"id":49806687,"options":[],"parent_id":49806077,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Yes, still 20% of input cost.
https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/pricing","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:37:22.000Z","created_at_i":1790102242,"id":49806077,"options":[],"parent_id":49805615,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"> 50% cheaper
Cache read/write decrease by 50% or similar? That's where most (95%+) of the cost is for agentic coding workloads.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"minimaxir","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:46:29.000Z","created_at_i":1790102789,"id":49806191,"options":[],"parent_id":49805615,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"I legit question if these prices are still inference-profitable for OpenAI. They likely didn't have 100% profit margin.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"baalimago","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:11:18.000Z","created_at_i":1790104278,"id":49806581,"options":[],"parent_id":49805615,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"> it's pretty incredible what the OpenAI team is doing
We don't know how much they are bleeding financially, it might just be a front","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"rgbrenner","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:37:41.000Z","created_at_i":1790105861,"id":49806962,"options":[],"parent_id":49805615,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"The major difference being the 1M token context window. Once you exceed 272K input tokens, Codex Sol is roughly the same price as Opus; and Astra similar to Fable.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:06:28.000Z","created_at_i":1790100388,"id":49805615,"options":[],"parent_id":49805509,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"I don't see how anyone can be using Claude with prices like this, it's pretty incredible what the OpenAI team is doing, w.r.t model quality and pricing.
Prices per 1M tokens Claude Opus 5.5 Claude Opus 5\n Cache reads $0.20 $0.50\n Input tokens $4 $5\n Output tokens $20 $25\n Cache writes $5 $6.25\n\n\nInput
Output
Price reduction
GPT\u20116 Sol\nvs. GPT\u20115.6 Sol
$4 \u2192 $2
$20 \u2192 $10
50% cheaper
GPT\u20116 Luna\nvs. GPT\u20115.6 Luna
$0.20 \u2192 $0.10
$1.20 \u2192 $0.50
50% cheaper","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"mchusma","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:06:42.000Z","created_at_i":1790100402,"id":49805619,"options":[],"parent_id":49805509,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"What a day! I couldn't really use the last Luna for much (wasn't smart enough) or Astra (too expensive). So this release is really exciting. I can probably use Sol 6 as much as I want in the week, which as great.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"sfkgtbor","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:07:23.000Z","created_at_i":1790100443,"id":49805629,"options":[],"parent_id":49805509,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"I'm glad both labs noticed and are trying to improve the models communication styles, they were getting closer and closer to meaningless gibberish.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"Readerium","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:07:36.000Z","created_at_i":1790100456,"id":49805632,"options":[],"parent_id":49805509,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"6 Sol Performs worse than 5.6 Sol at DeepSwe?
Wierd!!","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"samuelknight","children":[{"author":"MrBuddyCasino","children":[{"author":"o_m","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:24:33.000Z","created_at_i":1790101473,"id":49805889,"options":[],"parent_id":49805703,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Nah, Luna uses was more tokens and fills the context up way to fast. Terra is in the sweet spot where if feels like Opus 4.6. Competent but not too smart. It also lets you have longer sessions (back and forth) without filling the context too fast.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:12:50.000Z","created_at_i":1790100770,"id":49805703,"options":[],"parent_id":49805637,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Perhaps people realized that Luna Max is ~ Terra?","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"minimaxir","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:27:24.000Z","created_at_i":1790101644,"id":49805933,"options":[],"parent_id":49805637,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Terra is the middle-child in more ways than one. It has much lower usage than Sol or Luna (going off OpenRouter).","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"MangoCoffee","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:41:33.000Z","created_at_i":1790106093,"id":49807010,"options":[],"parent_id":49805637,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"isn't Sol became Terra? this is OpenAI tweet: https://x.com/OpenAI/status/2102460975790137662?s=20
Astra is the best. Luna is cheapest then it seems like Sol is the middle child like Terra.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:07:48.000Z","created_at_i":1790100468,"id":49805637,"options":[],"parent_id":49805509,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"No terra it seems? Luna 5.6 is great for token churning so it will be exciting to try the new one.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"cesarvarela","children":[{"author":"petesergeant","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:17:08.000Z","created_at_i":1790101028,"id":49805767,"options":[],"parent_id":49805650,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"I've found Astra to be horrible at making orchestration decisions. I will be trying to use Sol for both. Fable is very good at it though. Worst part of my week is when I hit my Fable usage limit and have to switch to Astra.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"afro88","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:47:59.000Z","created_at_i":1790102879,"id":49806210,"options":[],"parent_id":49805650,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"I've found Sol to be an excellent orchestrator, with Astra the planner and Sol again the implementer.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:08:40.000Z","created_at_i":1790100520,"id":49805650,"options":[],"parent_id":49805509,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"It looks like the optimal pattern is to have Astra as the orchestrator and Sol as the implementer. Same as with Fable and Opus.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"recitedropper","children":[{"author":"wahnfrieden","children":[{"author":"dominotw","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:12:25.000Z","created_at_i":1790100745,"id":49805694,"options":[],"parent_id":49805681,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"and comments complaining about other comments complaining too","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"rtaylorgarlock","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:12:55.000Z","created_at_i":1790100775,"id":49805705,"options":[],"parent_id":49805681,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Pretty sure this is the reason HN exists \u00af\\_(\u30c4)_/\u00af lol","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"ronsor","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:13:10.000Z","created_at_i":1790100790,"id":49805712,"options":[],"parent_id":49805681,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Including this one, yes.
But the reason people say "Claude can't compete" is because Claude Opus has been going downhill since 4.7, and many have found Opus 5 intolerable. Fable is much better, but also much more expensive than OpenAI's offerings.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"CaptWorld","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:16:42.000Z","created_at_i":1790101002,"id":49805761,"options":[],"parent_id":49805681,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"And comments complaining about how only big businesses get benefitted too","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:10:56.000Z","created_at_i":1790100656,"id":49805681,"options":[],"parent_id":49805664,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"And comments complaining about other comments too","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"droidjj","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:12:17.000Z","created_at_i":1790100737,"id":49805693,"options":[],"parent_id":49805664,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Is this comment about astroturfing or a decline in comment quality? To be honest, I was one of those early commenters, and I was just genuinely shocked at the price drop. I am also excited to try Opus 5.5!","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"mydreamof","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:13:48.000Z","created_at_i":1790100828,"id":49805721,"options":[],"parent_id":49805664,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"In the other hand the pricies dropped by a big margin","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"saadn92","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:14:35.000Z","created_at_i":1790100875,"id":49805732,"options":[],"parent_id":49805664,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"bots everywhere","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"civvv","children":[{"author":"ZeWaka","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:19:56.000Z","created_at_i":1790101196,"id":49805814,"options":[],"parent_id":49805741,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Eternal September 2, I suppose.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"LeBit","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:24:29.000Z","created_at_i":1790101469,"id":49805888,"options":[],"parent_id":49805741,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"They already exists. You haven\u2019t been invited? Hmmmmm","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:15:24.000Z","created_at_i":1790100924,"id":49805741,"options":[],"parent_id":49805664,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Welcome to the new internet. It was fun whilst it lasted. Next evolution will likely be closed, invite only forums.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"qoez","children":[{"author":"LeBit","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:22:59.000Z","created_at_i":1790101379,"id":49805864,"options":[],"parent_id":49805780,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"It\u2019s not that bad: https://news.ycombinator.com/bestcomments","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:17:52.000Z","created_at_i":1790101072,"id":49805780,"options":[],"parent_id":49805664,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Fundamentally I feel like coders just doesn't even need to be that smart anymore given AI assistance. This place ten years ago used to be filled with some of the most interesting comments/takes around for that reason.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"monkeydust","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:20:27.000Z","created_at_i":1790101227,"id":49805825,"options":[],"parent_id":49805664,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Stick with it. The collapse of HN is a leading indicator to the fall of humanity.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"Madmallard","children":[{"author":"minimaxir","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:34:19.000Z","created_at_i":1790102059,"id":49806041,"options":[],"parent_id":49805838,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"The comment got flagkilled, I'm unsure what else dang would need to do.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:21:11.000Z","created_at_i":1790101271,"id":49805838,"options":[],"parent_id":49805664,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"I remember how a few months ago Dang was criticizing people for making comments like this. Guess he just realized how stupid that was and stopped bothering eventually.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"woah","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:22:48.000Z","created_at_i":1790101368,"id":49805860,"options":[],"parent_id":49805664,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Are the prices very nice or not?","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"sidrag22","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:23:51.000Z","created_at_i":1790101431,"id":49805876,"options":[],"parent_id":49805664,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Ya all these articles lately about how everyone is sick of reading AI prose, and interacting with models in general. Tons of new model optimizations and workflow optimizations or whatever. I'm not really aware of any idea or product aimed at making the internet usable, and making it somewhat resistant to the generated noise. I think HN is a bit better than reddit for this type of example for floods of comments, first movers on reddit REALLY rise to the top and stay there.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"cmrdporcupine","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:24:12.000Z","created_at_i":1790101452,"id":49805882,"options":[],"parent_id":49805664,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Are you trying to imply that nothing OpenAI can release would justify that response and therefore the people must be bots?
Asking cuz I don't think I'm a bot [pats self], I legitimately prefer the GPT models to Anthropic's, don't like Anthropic's customer service/reliability story at all, and I welcome a massive price reduction. Seems like something I should be happy to get.
If you'd told me I'd be typing this a year ago I'd be skeptical though.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:09:27.000Z","created_at_i":1790100567,"id":49805664,"options":[],"parent_id":49805509,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"[flagged]","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"theanonymousone","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:09:47.000Z","created_at_i":1790100587,"id":49805667,"options":[],"parent_id":49805509,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Third-party inference providers will have a hard time to beat Luna in pricing with comparable open models.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"badatnames","children":[{"author":"chaos_emergent","children":[{"author":"cmrdporcupine","children":[{"author":"FergusArgyll","children":[{"author":"cmrdporcupine","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:29:17.000Z","created_at_i":1790101757,"id":49805965,"options":[],"parent_id":49805916,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"It wasn't just Astra. Sol 5.6 was a hog, too. They futzed with the formula and it pissed people off royal.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:26:27.000Z","created_at_i":1790101587,"id":49805916,"options":[],"parent_id":49805839,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Oh, I'm happy I'm not the only one. Astra was feasting on tokens!","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:21:12.000Z","created_at_i":1790101272,"id":49805839,"options":[],"parent_id":49805757,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Well, they do rug pull constantly. This week and last leading up to this the cost to use Codex was overwhelmingly perceived as terrible. People running out of usage all over the place. Reddit full of people crying. I noticed it myself.
Then they do a new model launch, issue quota resets all around, and it's a party for 2-3 weeks before things return to normal.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"badatnames","children":[{"author":"wyre","children":[{"author":"badatnames","children":[{"author":"wyre","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:13:00.000Z","created_at_i":1790104380,"id":49806606,"options":[],"parent_id":49805976,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Wasn't SpaceX's insane valuation largely based off of Grok, because their rocket and satellite businesses could never be valued at over a trillion $$?
I don't see your metaphor to iphones and flip phones. This new Luna model is cheaper than deepseek 4.1 flash, except for cache reads. OpenAI having to compete with China is a much larger economic-political issue that is far larger than just our AI labs.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:30:22.000Z","created_at_i":1790101822,"id":49805976,"options":[],"parent_id":49805900,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"SpaceX is a different beast with extremely high friction to enter its market, a massive technology lead, and well developed preferential high level relationships with just about every country worth worrying about.
OpenAI/Anthropic meanwhile feel a bit like they're hoping to sell iPhones in a market about to be flooded by $20 flip phones, with almost no channel of their own to do it. And for whatever mad reason OpenAI are now signalling they will attempt to compete on price with flip phones despite their cost of labour, energy, and just about everything else being far higher","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:25:13.000Z","created_at_i":1790101513,"id":49805900,"options":[],"parent_id":49805880,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Didn't SpaceX already set a precedence for garbage fire S-1s? I don't think OpenAI has to worry about that?","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:24:00.000Z","created_at_i":1790101440,"id":49805880,"options":[],"parent_id":49805757,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Because at some point keeping it up involves filing an S-1 that doesn't look like a garbage fire","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:16:21.000Z","created_at_i":1790100981,"id":49805757,"options":[],"parent_id":49805678,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Curious why you think it's unsustainable?","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:10:36.000Z","created_at_i":1790100636,"id":49805678,"options":[],"parent_id":49805509,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"It's asking a lot to trust they can or will maintain this new pricing. In any case it's exciting to think this might lead to further price cuts in the highly competent and competitive Chinese clones. I'm still using ChatGPT for interactive queries, but at this point pretty much only because of its familiar UI","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"cmrdporcupine","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:12:30.000Z","created_at_i":1790100750,"id":49805699,"options":[],"parent_id":49805509,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Looking at their own charts it seems like it's only small incremental improvement over 5.6 Sol, but with a massive cost reduction. And the better writing/communication style that Astra had.
Which... fine, I'll take that.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"Ninjinka","children":[{"author":"Readerium","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:18:18.000Z","created_at_i":1790101098,"id":49805792,"options":[],"parent_id":49805737,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Sol 6 is also dumber than Sol 5.6 on some tasks (DeepSWE)","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:15:01.000Z","created_at_i":1790100901,"id":49805737,"options":[],"parent_id":49805509,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"so opus 5.5 is smarter and cheaper than fable, and sol 6 is a little dumber and WAY cheaper than astra? is that right?","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"eyk19","children":[{"author":"mrdependable","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:29:48.000Z","created_at_i":1790101788,"id":49805968,"options":[],"parent_id":49805771,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Wouldn't that mean the cost of metering it is more than they make from metering it? I don't think that is the case.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:17:21.000Z","created_at_i":1790101041,"id":49805771,"options":[],"parent_id":49805509,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Luna really is "intelligence to cheap to meter" by now","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"jrflo","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:18:29.000Z","created_at_i":1790101109,"id":49805797,"options":[],"parent_id":49805509,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"The only two benchmarks shared between the Opus 5.5 and Sol 6 launch seem to be frontier code and automation bench, looks like Sol wins on automation bench (same performance for half the cost) and Opus 5.5 wins on frontier code (2-5% better scores across the board for same cost)","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"m_fayer","children":[{"author":"redox99","children":[{"author":"cmrdporcupine","children":[{"author":"jeffnash","children":[{"author":"m_fayer","children":[{"author":"jeffnash","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:52:37.000Z","created_at_i":1790106757,"id":49807163,"options":[],"parent_id":49807033,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"I fear the opposite will happen. Guy driving like a maniac almost side-swipes you in traffic? "Look at this 1-bit quantized Qwen 2.5 7B over here".","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:42:52.000Z","created_at_i":1790106172,"id":49807033,"options":[],"parent_id":49806117,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"I also get good mileage out of Terra when I need a diligent workhorse. That's a good way to describe it. We should start using character archetypes when we describe models, it'll do more good than the dubious numbers and cherry-picked quotes. Maybe RPG character-type cliches? Myers Briggs?","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:40:27.000Z","created_at_i":1790102427,"id":49806117,"options":[],"parent_id":49806005,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"I felt this way with Sol in the 5.6 series and was one of the seemingly few people on this earth who liked Terra for that reason. I would often have a very specific code-manipulation ask, e.g. "add a parameter to this method, ensure all callers pass it in, if there is not a logical way to derive the parameter to be passed in a particular instance, flag this in your final response", and Sol would go on some rabbit hole side quest to refactor my codebase to determine some way to derive it rather than flagging it as I had asked.
Terra had the "workhorse" quality where it could do these changes in bulk and follow directions without being too 'smart' (but sloppy) as you described. Luna was a bit too dumb and would make sloppy mistakes; I see that more as a "run these tests and format the results" sort of model. Maybe 6 Luna will be better.
I also just reread your comment and realized the naming convention is still extremely confusing with respect to ordering of [Family]x[Model]x[Number].","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"mavsman","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:42:31.000Z","created_at_i":1790102551,"id":49806135,"options":[],"parent_id":49806005,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Glad you pointed out the UI work. I've been doing a lot of it and it's so much better than 5.6 as UI, it's unbelievable. I give it super ambiguous instructions and it's reading my mind. I do the same thing with 5.6 and I'm correcting it for a few minutes.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:31:52.000Z","created_at_i":1790101912,"id":49806005,"options":[],"parent_id":49805858,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Yeah.
Astra was/is superior for planning type tasks. It was capable of doing seemingly magic things with rather vague/lazy instructions ("I need to be able to test this on Windows, maybe a qemu VM or something? Shrug." ... 1 hour later "yeah i built you a whole qemu + eval windows image + harness of powershell scripts + shell scripts to retrieve & verify harness.").
And for UI work -- which is not something I do a lot of but do here and there -- it was clearly superior to 5.6 Sol.
But it also feels sloppier? Somehow. And too expensive to use.
We'll see how Sol 6 is.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"Rapzid","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:21:21.000Z","created_at_i":1790104881,"id":49806717,"options":[],"parent_id":49805858,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Yeah, I use Astra for destroying vaguely scoped asks and tasks, and then for high-level design and plan generations..
Otherwise I'm using 5.6 Sol for actual plan execution and review..","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:22:33.000Z","created_at_i":1790101353,"id":49805858,"options":[],"parent_id":49805803,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Same. In fact I found 6 Astra to be a downgrade in situations where I didn't need the extra intelligence.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"NorthSouthNorth","children":[{"author":"jauntywundrkind","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:25:54.000Z","created_at_i":1790105154,"id":49806795,"options":[],"parent_id":49805899,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Astra is 100% conpletionist no chill alien.
It wants things beyond what the mortals (us) know to reach for. It's not good at explaining itself, it doesn't show it's thinking. It's often not wrong. But the no compromises attitude can be unbearable to deal with. Especially given how little it cares about telling us.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:25:11.000Z","created_at_i":1790101511,"id":49805899,"options":[],"parent_id":49805803,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Completely agree. I've been using 5.6 still even with Astra available to me for most tasks. It's funny how much of this is just "vibes" because I cannot quantify what it is. Astra is definitely better when I have an ambitious feature, but in like 9/10 tasks I prefer working with 5.6 Sol. A few weeks ago when the limits were seemingly higher, having 5.6 on fast mode was a good time.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"nickreese","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:25:32.000Z","created_at_i":1790101532,"id":49805907,"options":[],"parent_id":49805803,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"This is 100% my experience. I rarely reach for Astra as we speak.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"mcast","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:27:12.000Z","created_at_i":1790101632,"id":49805928,"options":[],"parent_id":49805803,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"It's a shame the labs don't open source their models after deprecating them. I get why, but, it's a piece of internet history I hope is preserved.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"jdw64","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:30:14.000Z","created_at_i":1790101814,"id":49805975,"options":[],"parent_id":49805803,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"I agree. Sol followed my instructions well and wrote good code.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"BowBun","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:31:48.000Z","created_at_i":1790101908,"id":49806002,"options":[],"parent_id":49805803,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"This has been my experience for a year. Same with Opus models. This is how I think this tech will be best used in the long term - finding the one you vibe with most. Much like IDEs!","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"bradly","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:32:48.000Z","created_at_i":1790101968,"id":49806018,"options":[],"parent_id":49805803,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Not only was 6 worse the 5.6 Sol for my me, but it went through my Plus usage in minutes, while I could cruise for hours with 5.6. It would churn on a basic prompt for minutes and then just give up on usage limits.
Highlight and lowlight of my week was successfully convincing the OpenAI support chat robot to give me a refund for the month for my issues with 6 chewing threw my usage with no output.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"AaronAPU","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:35:51.000Z","created_at_i":1790102151,"id":49806063,"options":[],"parent_id":49805803,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"I had this experience as well, but after rewriting my agent instructions it has been far better. I believe Astra\u2019s \u201ctoken efficiency\u201d translates to \u201cdon\u2019t research as much\u201d which caused it to make poorly informed architectural decisions.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"apitman","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:00:49.000Z","created_at_i":1790103649,"id":49806383,"options":[],"parent_id":49805803,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Similar for me. gpt-5.6-sol high has been my go-to for months. One of the reasons I'm pushing myself to try open models more is because it lends some level of guarantee I can continue to use the same tool as long as I want to. And I think we may just be getting to the point the open models are >= 5.6 Sol for coding.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"simianwords","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:26:49.000Z","created_at_i":1790105209,"id":49806814,"options":[],"parent_id":49805803,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Agree as well and I had a much worse experience with GPT 6 Astra for some reason.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"alansaber","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:28:17.000Z","created_at_i":1790105297,"id":49806832,"options":[],"parent_id":49805803,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"I felt that was about 5.5. IMO 5.6 Sol was overindexed: more verbose, prone to overengineering.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"jmuguy","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T20:12:03.000Z","created_at_i":1790107923,"id":49807416,"options":[],"parent_id":49805803,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Yeah 5.6 Sol is what got me to switch from Anthropic. I couldn't deal with Claude's Ted Talk responses to literally everything. Sol has been nice and concise and just stays out of the way.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:18:51.000Z","created_at_i":1790101131,"id":49805803,"options":[],"parent_id":49805509,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"I've been working with agents all year, but 5.6 Sol was some sort of sweet spot for me. Something about how it communicated verbally and its engineering instincts just clicked for me, and I was able to somehow predict it and jam with it. Like a colleague you click with. It's the first model I've gotten attached to. I'm concerned that whatever model supercedes it, while technically better, just won't feel quite as natural to work with. And this makes me feel very professionally vulnerable to the labs. I miss the days when my crucial tooling came from companies as reliable and predictable as, say, Jetbrains.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"meerita","children":[{"author":"slekker","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:42:46.000Z","created_at_i":1790102566,"id":49806140,"options":[],"parent_id":49805844,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Source?","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"thimabi","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:05:54.000Z","created_at_i":1790103954,"id":49806482,"options":[],"parent_id":49805844,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"You probably mean they are operating with 80% margins discounting training expenses, which will continue to be pretty high for the foreseeable future.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:21:35.000Z","created_at_i":1790101295,"id":49805844,"options":[],"parent_id":49805509,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"OpenAI, Antrophic and others are operating with 80% margins. They can lower the prices for a long while.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"simianparrot","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:22:46.000Z","created_at_i":1790101366,"id":49805859,"options":[],"parent_id":49805509,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Well at least it looks like OpenAI is dogfooding because their announcements, product names, and everything else looks and sounds like LLM-slop.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"sehw","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:23:30.000Z","created_at_i":1790101410,"id":49805870,"options":[],"parent_id":49805509,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"sage","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"msh","children":[{"author":"blovescoffee","children":[{"author":"OutOfHere","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:30:35.000Z","created_at_i":1790101835,"id":49805982,"options":[],"parent_id":49805918,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"I don't agree. In "none" thinking mode, Terra serves a useful purpose where medium-grade intelligence is needed. Luna doesn't cut it.
Hardly enough time had passed to develop the data to come to a conclusion. Users can take time to build interest.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:26:41.000Z","created_at_i":1790101601,"id":49805918,"options":[],"parent_id":49805872,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"It wasn't really used enough and it sat in an awkward middle space between luna and sol where either luna high/xhigh or sol med were better cost/perf wise","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"Tadpole9181","children":[{"author":"OutOfHere","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:31:31.000Z","created_at_i":1790101891,"id":49805995,"options":[],"parent_id":49805921,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"The users of Terra disagree. Specifically, Terra is useful when medium-grade intelligence is needed in instant ("none" thinking) mode.
Hardly enough time had passed to develop the data to come to a conclusion. Users can take time to develop an interest.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"msh","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:31:46.000Z","created_at_i":1790101906,"id":49806000,"options":[],"parent_id":49805921,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"I have found it worked quite well as the workhorse model in my hermes agent.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"darklinear","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T20:16:02.000Z","created_at_i":1790108162,"id":49807464,"options":[],"parent_id":49805921,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"I disagree. After a bit of experimenting, I actually found Terra to be a very good workhorse model on none-to-medium reasoning, and I actually quite prefer its code to Sol's in many cases. It has less of a complexity to over-complicate things. Where Sol would have a sea of try/except and recoveries for situations that are structurally impossible, Terra would just write nice, sequential code.
Maybe for one-shotting large things Sol is better, but for prod code where I decompose into smaller tasks and read all the code I favored Terra.
Sol 5.6 was still king for architecture/research in my workflow, though.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:27:01.000Z","created_at_i":1790101621,"id":49805921,"options":[],"parent_id":49805872,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"It probably didn't see that much use, as it struggled to find a niche. If you wanted intelligence tasks, Sol was cheap enough and much smarter. If you wanted performance and cost-effectiveness, Luna was significantly better value while being only a little less intelligent.
Terra ended up just being an awkward middle ground that was not particularly suited for any workload.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"smith7018","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:28:50.000Z","created_at_i":1790101730,"id":49805958,"options":[],"parent_id":49805872,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"I read that there are rumors that they're getting rid of that tier. No idea where the rumor came from, though. This lends credence to it, I suppose.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"sandos","children":[{"author":"apitman","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:08:22.000Z","created_at_i":1790104102,"id":49806529,"options":[],"parent_id":49806339,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Your employer should reconsider. Sol high is cheaper than Terra max and smarter, when measured per task. ie even if tokens are more expensive Sol can often do a job with fewer tokens.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:57:41.000Z","created_at_i":1790103461,"id":49806339,"options":[],"parent_id":49805872,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"I'm scared now, my employer only allows Luna and Terra on 5.6. I really hope they will allow Sol then on GPT 6.
Funny thing is they very recently also set a real limit per-user/month, so why even limit the models because theyre "too expensive".","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"miohtama","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:05:53.000Z","created_at_i":1790103953,"id":49806480,"options":[],"parent_id":49805872,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Sol price is halved so no need for terra","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:23:35.000Z","created_at_i":1790101415,"id":49805872,"options":[],"parent_id":49805509,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"I dont understand why there is not a gpt-6 terra?","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"devinprater","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:24:45.000Z","created_at_i":1790101485,"id":49805892,"options":[],"parent_id":49805509,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Good. Maybe they can use GPT-6 to fix the accessibility of their iOS app. Output shows as text fields to VoiceOver, and the accessibility announcements have backslashes before seemingly every punctuation mark. And then bring accessibility announcements to the Android app so I don't have to make a whole new app just to add that through an accessibility service. Ugh the things I do for accessibility cause I'm blind. On a better note though, AI has done so much for the blind community, from image (and increasingly video) description to mods for video games like Final Fantasy 1 through 6 Pixel remaster, I have a ton to be grateful for.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"markerbrod","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:25:00.000Z","created_at_i":1790101500,"id":49805897,"options":[],"parent_id":49805509,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Does anyone know if the ~50% price reduction also implies x2 subscription usage? Or is it only for the API.
Edit: Yes, it applies also to subscriptions, source https://x.com/thsottiaux/status/2102463847714247142","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"fHr","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:28:49.000Z","created_at_i":1790101729,"id":49805957,"options":[],"parent_id":49805509,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Luna is the goat for real, cost intelligence ratio is insane already and it is enough for most daily computer use.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"yipinwong","children":[{"author":"dmazin","children":[{"author":"yipinwong","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:09:26.000Z","created_at_i":1790104166,"id":49806552,"options":[],"parent_id":49806004,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Benchmark doesn't really show the whole story.
I forgot which model degraded in quality as time went by, but let's try out Luna 6 for a few more days to confirm for upgradability.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:31:50.000Z","created_at_i":1790101910,"id":49806004,"options":[],"parent_id":49805963,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Per the benchmarks in the post, Luna 6 is at best a couple points superior to Luna 5.6 and (unless I\u2019m reading it wrong) xhigh has actually degraded in quality?
I was hoping for a serious Luna upgrade. It was already cheap enough. This feels more like a price reduction than an upgrade.
That said, if the new Luna is able to handle ultra mode and subagents v2 in codex cli, then at least that\u2019s a win.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:29:06.000Z","created_at_i":1790101746,"id":49805963,"options":[],"parent_id":49805509,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"I've been raving about Luna 5.6 as it's dirt cheap, and "intelligent enough". Double quoted.
Now GPT 6 Luna is even cheaper, and more intelligent, there is no going back... to SOL 5.6 for intelligent layer.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"recitedropper","children":[{"author":"john_strinlai","children":[{"author":"recitedropper","children":[{"author":"seizethecheese","children":[{"author":"recitedropper","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:11:41.000Z","created_at_i":1790104301,"id":49806589,"options":[],"parent_id":49806254,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"More than two comments per minute right when it was posted, all simple one-liners celebrating the price decrease.
I would agree now that the thread has recovered to a more interesting state, but how it first looked--combined with it being posted right after Opus 5.5 announcement--look questionable to me.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:51:44.000Z","created_at_i":1790103104,"id":49806254,"options":[],"parent_id":49806125,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"I agree with the rule and also found your comment boring.
Also, I don\u2019t see that much astroturfing here? (And I tend to see it a lot on HN.)","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"minimaxir","children":[{"author":"recitedropper","children":[{"author":"minimaxir","children":[{"author":"recitedropper","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:12:53.000Z","created_at_i":1790104373,"id":49806601,"options":[],"parent_id":49806419,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"I guess there are more people eagerly watching price decreases than I realized!","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:02:54.000Z","created_at_i":1790103774,"id":49806419,"options":[],"parent_id":49806386,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Yes. See my comment on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:oxaernim5mj2mmy3ytrvb42n/po...
> what the fuck","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:01:03.000Z","created_at_i":1790103663,"id":49806386,"options":[],"parent_id":49806290,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"I've seen your articles in the past and I thought they were great. So I respect your thinking, and have no intention of being combative.
But do you really think people were so excited about cheaper versions of Astra that they were just waiting around to comment the instant this was posted? More than two comments per minute? All the initial comments were really similar too: brief one liners celebrating the cheap prices.
I think AI right now is a sort of Rorschach test. What it is clearly revealing to me is that I don't trust organizations with enormous financial incentives to not manipulate public opinion. So I see bots everywhere. :)","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:54:06.000Z","created_at_i":1790103246,"id":49806290,"options":[],"parent_id":49806125,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Yes, this thread is not being manipulated. People a) being excited about something and b) it being in favor of a certain company is not sufficient evidence of astroturfing.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"john_strinlai","children":[{"author":"recitedropper","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:03:49.000Z","created_at_i":1790103829,"id":49806436,"options":[],"parent_id":49806303,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"That is actually a great point. I have no rebuttal.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:54:44.000Z","created_at_i":1790103284,"id":49806303,"options":[],"parent_id":49806125,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":">Do you think the "you can't mention astroturfing" rule is really serving HN these days?
yes, i think so.
because, unfortunately, complaining about bots (or astroturfing, or whatever) doesn't stop them. so we end up with threads that have both the potential bot/astroturfing/whatever activity and complaints, which further drowns out any interesting comments.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"BenzeneDream","children":[{"author":"recitedropper","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:15:24.000Z","created_at_i":1790104524,"id":49806642,"options":[],"parent_id":49806479,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Engagement is generally more important than purely positive sentiment.
Anyway these comments were made when this thread was in an earlier state. I agree that it has gone on to be more "organic" looking. That doesn't exclude it initially being manipulated to the top, in my mind, but certainly they aren't carpet-bombing with only booster comments.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:05:51.000Z","created_at_i":1790103951,"id":49806479,"options":[],"parent_id":49806125,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Do you think all the comments in here are positive about the model? Because they aren't. In no way does it seem astroturfed. And yeah, pretty boring to read that kind of comment every time.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"FergusArgyll","children":[{"author":"recitedropper","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:21:08.000Z","created_at_i":1790104868,"id":49806715,"options":[],"parent_id":49806646,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"You know I think I have accepted this after a few decades on this planet, but probably can't hurt to be reminded. :)
I wouldn't argue there aren't real humans excited for this drop. It was just all the circumstances around it--the comment speed, the upvote speed, the initial uniformity of what people were saying.
Anyway, thank you for the moral reminder.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:15:48.000Z","created_at_i":1790104548,"id":49806646,"options":[],"parent_id":49806125,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"You have to accept that people are different than you.
I see long massive pro apple threads. I don't get it at all. As in; literally don't understand what Apple is good for. But I have friends, family irl who love apple so I know the sentiment exists. I therefore accept that many HN users are similar.
Many people really truly are happy to see another model drop and are excited about progress etc etc. Surely you've met such ppl in real life. Well, they're here too (I'm one of them fwiw)","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:41:11.000Z","created_at_i":1790102471,"id":49806125,"options":[],"parent_id":49806086,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Do you think the "you can't mention astroturfing" rule is really serving HN these days? Do you think this thread hasn't been manipulated?
I respect you for replying here though, and yes I get that HN forum standards would suggest flagging my previous comment. But it is just sad to see a place used to be so vibrant get manipulated because of how much weight it holds for us in the industry.
And yea sure, I could go and flag all the bots and message Dang. But probably time to stop shouting into the void. :)","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:37:53.000Z","created_at_i":1790102273,"id":49806086,"options":[],"parent_id":49805966,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":">My previous comment--which suggested astroturfing--was the highest upvoted comment here until it got flagged
fyi, i flagged it because it is boring reading and against the rules.
if you suspect astroturfing, flag the comments and contact the mods.
(complaining that your complaint got flagged is also tiresome. contact the mods. "@dang" doesnt work, use the email.)","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"tomhow","children":[{"author":"recitedropper","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:10:20.000Z","created_at_i":1790104220,"id":49806566,"options":[],"parent_id":49806288,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Hopefully it is clear from my other comments that I do try to provide value too.
> You have now posted accusations/assumptions of astroturfing and manipulation at least 15 times, without ever providing any evidence.
I tried to point out the upvote speed and age-to-comment ratio for this thread look anomalous to me, and that it being posted within the Opus 5.5 release hour was further reason for skepticism. Circumstantial, sure, but I see very little ways to gather hard evidence of astroturfing without being a mod.
> when users and moderators simply uphold the guidelines, staging a protest by demanding your account be deleted.
You're right this was a little dramatic. I think it is just annoying though when two times that I have posted about astroturfing, it has been the most upvoted comment only to get flagged. I guess this is a self-fulfilling prophecy though, as you are right that other human commenters are abound and tend to flag people complaining about astroturfing.
Anyway thanks for the reply. If your read of my account is that I'm more-often-than-not a bad actor, then I will stop commenting here. Seems like it is for the best. :)","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:53:59.000Z","created_at_i":1790103239,"id":49806288,"options":[],"parent_id":49805966,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"There's no evidence of astroturfing. The comments you\u2019re referring to are from accounts with established history and in different locations, without any evidence of being linked to OpenAI. They just seem excited about the models and the pricing.
On the other hand, you have previously written: I'll gladly admit I think what these companies are doing is unethical, and I'm sure that biases my thinking toward skepticism. [1]
You have now posted accusations/assumptions of astroturfing and manipulation at least 15 times, without ever providing any evidence. This is in breach of the guidelines, because comments like this poison discussions far more than the comments they're complaining about.
We \u2013 of course \u2013 want all comments and posts on HN to be authentic. HN is only a place where anyone wants to participate because since the beginning, we've had software mechanisms and moderation practices that detect and weed out inauthentic commenting and voting. We're identifying and dealing with it every day, continually improving the software to detect and remove it. Most of that happens quietly and efficiently in the background without anyone having to see it. When users see evidence of manipulation and report it to us via email, we happily and thoroughly investigate it.
Most of the time, what we find is simply that people are authentically excited and passionate about the topic, which is what is happening here. I understand it can be hard to accept that if you're skeptical about the topic.
It's fine to be skeptical about the topic and you're welcome to express your skeptical views on the topic. People do that every day on HN, about AI-related topics and countless others. Healthy debate is what we're here for.
But you can't keep poisoning HN, by (1) continually posting these unfounded claims, then (2) when users and moderators simply uphold the guidelines, staging a protest by demanding your account be deleted. This is not what people do when they care about a forum's health.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48220908","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"rvz","children":[{"author":"recitedropper","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:29:43.000Z","created_at_i":1790105383,"id":49806857,"options":[],"parent_id":49806789,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"A bunch of actual humans have replied to this so at least HN isn't totally gone yet. :)
Otherwise, yes, we agree. Although, given the other replies to this, there are clearly those who disagree who appear to be smart and level-headed.
Anyhow I've learned my lesson now.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:25:38.000Z","created_at_i":1790105138,"id":49806789,"options":[],"parent_id":49805966,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Clearly this isn't the first time. Remember criticizing model releases will get you flagged here.
This is why HN has been on the down hill in quality and those that care to highlight that are being punished, while the astro-turfing, gaslighting and Show HN self-promotion slop continues.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:29:29.000Z","created_at_i":1790101769,"id":49805966,"options":[],"parent_id":49805509,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"This is the most blatantly astroturfed thread I have ever seen on Hacker News.
My previous comment--which suggested astroturfing--was the highest upvoted comment here until it got flagged. Which implies to me that atleast the other remaining humans on this forum see it as well.
26 minutes, 89 comments, upvoted instantly to the top, posted within one hour of the Opus 5.5 announcement. You tell me.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"jeffnash","children":[{"author":"spijdar","children":[{"author":"sidrag22","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:49:21.000Z","created_at_i":1790102961,"id":49806227,"options":[],"parent_id":49806056,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"I've been doing this, my only experience with codex was brutal usage wise and i just retreated back to pi pretty quickly so the credit usage i'm receiving is kinda all im familiar with. Surely seems like less than CC, but i guess not using codex makes my experience kinda not valid for comparing usage.
And ya i can go over that 240k limit, I still very seldom do, and try to treat it as the actual limit. I'm surprised to see so many people still talking about compaction to complete long running tasks, i think the bulk of the work should be somewhat frontloaded into a plan that is split off into subplans, then you can kinda open up a few options, one session with subagents for the subplans of the main plan, or just handoff prompts about progress against the main plan/relevant subplan. I just never trust the blackbox that is compaction, I feel its a recipe for disaster/context poison.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:35:20.000Z","created_at_i":1790102120,"id":49806056,"options":[],"parent_id":49805972,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"I dunno about Codex-the-application itself, but you can definitely use e.g. Pi with the larger context windows with a Codex login. It puts a pretty large multiplier on credit usage, however.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"noname120","children":[{"author":"jeffnash","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:44:01.000Z","created_at_i":1790102641,"id":49806155,"options":[],"parent_id":49806060,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"I actually haven't played with the GUI. I probably should now that the Linux version is in beta. My situation is kind of the reverse: I like using oracle to basically zip up my repo, ask GPT Pro to propose some sort of design or refactor based on the code, then provide a step by step implementation plan for a cheaper model to implement directly in a harness on my machine. It often takes upwards of 90 minutes to come up with something but I've never been disappointed by the results. I suppose I could do this and then save a step by referencing the oracle-created thread with the @ you mentioned
And re: the toml workaround, AWESOME! I appreciate you pointing these two things out, this is my highest-ROI HN comment thus far.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:35:33.000Z","created_at_i":1790102133,"id":49806060,"options":[],"parent_id":49805972,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"> It's also is a godsend if you use an MCP like oracle to automate the process of calling the Pro model on particularly tough problems
As far as I know Codex (at least the GUI) can automatically call the ChatGPT Chat models (including Astra 6 Pro), you just need to @ a ChatGPT Chat conversation from within Codex and tell it when to use it.
> There used to be a toml file workaround for Codex to extend the GPT context window to 1m, but this stopped working on the plans and only on per-token billing
Not true, it works again[1]. I confirm that it works both on 5.6 Sol and Astra 6, possibly other models too.
[1] https://x.com/thsottiaux/status/2089082893804896524","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"sodacanner","children":[{"author":"basisword","children":[{"author":"rbranson","children":[{"author":"basisword","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:07:59.000Z","created_at_i":1790104079,"id":49806519,"options":[],"parent_id":49806273,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"iOS development mostly. I'm using the Pro plans as it's work on personal projects outside my day job and I'm able to get just enough usage from those plans to get me through each day.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:53:00.000Z","created_at_i":1790103180,"id":49806273,"options":[],"parent_id":49806119,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Assuming you are doing coding, I'm curious how would you characterize tne majority of your work (language, domain, frontend/backend, etc)?","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"DaSHacka","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T20:05:13.000Z","created_at_i":1790107513,"id":49807336,"options":[],"parent_id":49806119,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Same here, especially as I stick with Opus 4.6. My usage limits truly feel limitless, I can just hammer a task over and over again until completion.
Meanwhile I just burned ~20% of my weekly quota with Astra making one config file for a service.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:40:31.000Z","created_at_i":1790102431,"id":49806119,"options":[],"parent_id":49806076,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"I've been using Claude Pro and recently gave Codex a try again. Both on the $20 plans. I get so much more usage with Claude. It's night and day for me. Codex runs out constantly, whereas Claude I hit limits very rarely.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"jeffnash","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:41:43.000Z","created_at_i":1790106103,"id":49807012,"options":[],"parent_id":49806076,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"I'm actually interested to see how the token discount maps to the usage limit consumption. The conspiracy theorist in me wonders if they're making up the discount and resultant load increase on the API end by reducing effective usage on the subscription end.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:37:20.000Z","created_at_i":1790102240,"id":49806076,"options":[],"parent_id":49805972,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"In my personal experience I currently get a lot, lot more usage on the 5x Claude plan than the 5x Codex plan.
Having limitless webUI ChatGPT usage is much better user experience, though. I'll give them that.
(edit: Sol-6 is half the price, so maybe the usage limits are going to be way better.)","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"paulmist","children":[{"author":"joshstrange","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:56:55.000Z","created_at_i":1790103415,"id":49806331,"options":[],"parent_id":49806157,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"This is my experience. After months of hearing how Codex limits were way higher I bumped to the $100/mo plan after hitting my limits a day early on Claude due to some heavy usage + Fable (not normal for me, I often fit nicely in the $200/mo plan). I hit the usage limit in a day with a single agent running on codex and the tiny context window was stifling. Yes, I'm comparing a $100 to a $200 plan but I extrapolated the usage (4x'd it) and it still wasn't close, I got way more done with Opus.
Using Agentsview (which might have it's own issues) I was getting ~$200 of API usage in my 1 week Codex window (paid $100) vs ~$5,000 of API usage in 1 week for Claude (paid $200).","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:44:04.000Z","created_at_i":1790102644,"id":49806157,"options":[],"parent_id":49805972,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"> Winner right now is Codex by a mile
Opposite in my experience. I need to limit codex to 500k on medium/low, still run out in 2-3 days with 1 CLI window. CC gives me 4-5 medium/high days with 2-3 CLI windows, and Opus is still great for other regular dumb engineering/refactoring.
On the other hand my head starts to hurt if I read Opus for too long, hopefully they fixed it with 5.5.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"lifty","children":[{"author":"nwienert","children":[{"author":"lifty","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:28:06.000Z","created_at_i":1790105286,"id":49806827,"options":[],"parent_id":49806240,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"It\u2019s all anecdotal based on my experience and other countless discussions I have seen online. I\u2019ve heard speculation that once they hit 20 million codex users capacity is tighter so they have to manage it. The previous limits were unsustainable compared to token pricing.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:50:41.000Z","created_at_i":1790103041,"id":49806240,"options":[],"parent_id":49806182,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Interesting, rolling out new limits would explain a lot. Where did you hear this? I wonder if they detect users with multiple accounts and do that first.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"jeffnash","children":[{"author":"lifty","children":[{"author":"jeffnash","children":[{"author":"lifty","children":[{"author":"jeffnash","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T20:31:05.000Z","created_at_i":1790109065,"id":49807651,"options":[],"parent_id":49807431,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Sorry about that, I accidentally a word (hope that reference doesn't date me)","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T20:13:35.000Z","created_at_i":1790108015,"id":49807431,"options":[],"parent_id":49806933,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Finally got the nuance. Indeed the chat part of the subscription is unlimited as far as I know. Now that part of your comment makes sense!","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:35:25.000Z","created_at_i":1790105725,"id":49806933,"options":[],"parent_id":49806866,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"I am saying that because ChatGPT usage is unlimited, I don't have to eat into my Codex limits when I use ChatGPT. Codex certainly has limits. Last time I had a Claude sub (hedging here since much of the info in my comment was outdated), my usage limits on claude.ai threads was shared with Claude Code.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:30:12.000Z","created_at_i":1790105412,"id":49806866,"options":[],"parent_id":49806382,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"That\u2019s the default. I didn\u2019t express myself clearly but I thinking your situation is not the common case anymore, or perhaps you are not using it hard enough. Codex limits deplete very fast these days, it\u2019s not \u201cunlimited\u201d.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:00:48.000Z","created_at_i":1790103648,"id":49806382,"options":[],"parent_id":49806182,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"On usage in ChatGPT settings, I see:\nPlan limits\nShared across Codex, Work, Workspace Agents, and ChatGPT for Excel. Chat conversations are not included.
Is this not the default anymore? I am on the (now closed) 20x plan.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:45:46.000Z","created_at_i":1790102746,"id":49806182,"options":[],"parent_id":49805972,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"What are you talking about? ChatGPT unmetered? No way! That was 2 months ago perhaps and it\u2019s possible your account still hasn\u2019t gotten the new limits. I noticed around 1 month ago I was still going full throttle on my codex subscription and my limits were barely budging, and then all of sudden people around me started to complain about limits. I thought they\u2019re crazy, but then my account go the hammer, and that was it. If I have the same pattern of usage like I did before, basically having an agent working continuously on a coding take, my weekly limit goes in 2 days.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"NorwegianDude","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:46:56.000Z","created_at_i":1790102816,"id":49806197,"options":[],"parent_id":49805972,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Codex/ChatGPT Pro 20x isn't really a thing now, they have disabled it a week or two ago.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"kornelijus","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:46:58.000Z","created_at_i":1790102818,"id":49806199,"options":[],"parent_id":49805972,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Not that I disagree that Codex wins out, but the deciding factor actually is - Codex Pro 20x is not available for purchase, indefinitely. So, what's the point of this discussion? People who already have the 20x sub are unlikely to cancel, and the rest of us can't access it.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"marcd35","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:48:43.000Z","created_at_i":1790102923,"id":49806218,"options":[],"parent_id":49805972,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"theres a popular thread on claudecode or claudai subreddit that proves 20x isnt really 20x. apparently its a marketing gimmick and the recommended solution is two 5x plans > 20x at greater than half the cost of the 20x","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"glub","children":[{"author":"ipsod","children":[{"author":"glub","children":[{"author":"spiderice","children":[{"author":"cthalupa","children":[{"author":"spiderice","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T20:37:41.000Z","created_at_i":1790109461,"id":49807727,"options":[],"parent_id":49807669,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"That's too bad. I wonder why I was able to get it after days of not being able to. They must've just temporarily enabled it again. Probably worth checking a few times a day to see if it reappears.
Though with the price of GPT-6 Luna, the temptation to switch to pay-per-token grows.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T20:32:32.000Z","created_at_i":1790109152,"id":49807669,"options":[],"parent_id":49807597,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"I have been attempting to get on the $200 sub for a while. It was not available for me a few days ago, and checking again now, it is still not available.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"glub","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T20:39:59.000Z","created_at_i":1790109599,"id":49807757,"options":[],"parent_id":49807597,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"I think what they did was allow resubs for users who already had $200 sub before.
Just checked my toy chatgpt account that only ever had a $20 sub. $200 plan still shows "The 20X plan is temporarily unavailable for purchase".","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T20:27:54.000Z","created_at_i":1790108874,"id":49807597,"options":[],"parent_id":49806401,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"That is an old tweet. They since reenabled it. I know because I was on the $200/month plan and couldn't resub once it expired. However, a couple days ago it finally let me resub again.
Now, if they disabled it yet again, that's another story. But that tweet is not evidence of that.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:01:49.000Z","created_at_i":1790103709,"id":49806401,"options":[],"parent_id":49806351,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Yes.
https://x.com/thsottiaux/status/2098113585683808624","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:59:01.000Z","created_at_i":1790103541,"id":49806351,"options":[],"parent_id":49806241,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"> you can't buy a $200 sub anymore
Are you sure?","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"rudedogg","children":[{"author":"qlte","children":[{"author":"rudedogg","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:26:24.000Z","created_at_i":1790105184,"id":49806805,"options":[],"parent_id":49806575,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"I don\u2019t think so, I\u2019ve seen it suggest I try it. I\u2019ll double check when I get home though.
I was considering the $100 plan, but I hit the 5hr limit in an hour. So even with the $100 plan I figured I cant go non-stop on a single agent running Sol Medium","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:10:52.000Z","created_at_i":1790104252,"id":49806575,"options":[],"parent_id":49806387,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"I do the bulk of work on Sol Medium/Low and don't have that experience on the $20 plan. If you said Astra I'd agree it's easy to burn through the 5 hours even on the lower reasoning levels.
Do you have /fast enabled by any chance?","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"glub","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:16:58.000Z","created_at_i":1790104618,"id":49806668,"options":[],"parent_id":49806387,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"I think OpenAI essentially executed a bait-and-switch here, and they've lost a lot of goodwill with me, like Anthropic did, before them.
When they started the aggressive campaign, entire X (including myself, sadly) was full of posts about how "unlimited" codex usage is even on a $20 plan. Sam Altman was posting something in line of "we love our users, unlike Anthropic". Got my network to get codex subs because of the value compared to claude.
Then they gradually reduced the limits to the point where even $200 plan only lasts you just 1-2 days and $20 is basically unusable, then the hostage thing.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"hadlock","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:16:59.000Z","created_at_i":1790104619,"id":49806669,"options":[],"parent_id":49806387,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"I've run into hitting limits on the personal plan perhaps twice since the beginning of the year. But also I don't use the personal plan for coding tasks between 7am-noon M-F.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"boardwaalk","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:19:35.000Z","created_at_i":1790104775,"id":49806700,"options":[],"parent_id":49806387,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"similar here: I tried Codex $20/mo on a trial and I ran out of 5hr usage mid way through a medium complexity task on a medium size model twice and gave up there. I don\u2019t recall the equiv Claude plan being anything like that. Anecdata, but not great for OAI if they actually want to retain people on a trial.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"this_user","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:55:42.000Z","created_at_i":1790106942,"id":49807206,"options":[],"parent_id":49806387,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Astra is barely usable even on the $100 plan. And that is if it doesn't just burn through 80% of your weekly quota in a couple of hours by continually expanding the scope of the task you gave it - while not noticing the failing tests that are right in front of it.
Opus is at least actually usable even on the small plan. The main downside is its insane writing style, but 5.5 seems to address that somewhat. Otherwise, you can just use your $20 OpenAI plan to have Luna de-slop Opus' prose, which seems to work fine.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:01:03.000Z","created_at_i":1790103663,"id":49806387,"options":[],"parent_id":49806241,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"I\u2019ve been a Claude user, switched to Codex expecting usage limits to be more loose but I can\u2019t even get through a basic sysadmin task on the $20 plan using Sol medium before I hit the 5hr one.
I think I\u2019m gonna move back to a Claude plan. I could barely hit the $200 limit if I went non-stop on programming tasks.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"platinumrad","children":[{"author":"glub","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:28:02.000Z","created_at_i":1790105282,"id":49806826,"options":[],"parent_id":49806580,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Perhaps. But Sol/Astra also likes dumping pages of jargon-packed content at me, so I'm not sure it's that much different. I actually still prefer the way Fable talks to me, even considering the horrible claudisms.
But even if we leave that aside, OpenAI models are also much more eager than Anthropic, which are on the lazier side. Left unsupervised, Sol/Astra will attempt to build a sha256 verified rocket ship if you ask them to fix a race condition in your to-do list app. Anthropic models will do what you asked for, maybe even forget to implement parts of that ask, but they won't generally throw a slop granade at you.
I can leave Fable orchestrator unsupervised for ~2h. Leaving Sol/Astra unsupervised for ~2h means the next user turn will contain a message: "what are you doing and why?".","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:11:17.000Z","created_at_i":1790104277,"id":49806580,"options":[],"parent_id":49806241,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Given that Anthropic models are very verbose and OpenAI models can be very concise, wouldn't a count of expected task completions be a better measurement than raw API costs?","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"InsideOutSanta","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:19:51.000Z","created_at_i":1790104791,"id":49806705,"options":[],"parent_id":49806241,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"I think the problem with Anthropic's plan is that Fable just destroys it. If you stick to Opus and below, the $200 plan goes from "using 50% of the weekly quota on the first day" to something much more reasonable.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"jrflo","children":[{"author":"glub","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:39:49.000Z","created_at_i":1790105989,"id":49806990,"options":[],"parent_id":49806709,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Added link in edit. OMP maintainer has several claude and codex subs and he's been tracking usage since around July.
I haven't been tracking, but this roughly matches my experience with codex 20x and claude 20x subs. Claude subscription now lasts me 3-3.5 days on average. Codex is 2-2.5 days. This is work on same projects, with similarly sized tasks.
To make matters worse, I've merged a lot more code produced by fable than sol/astra.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:20:34.000Z","created_at_i":1790104834,"id":49806709,"options":[],"parent_id":49806241,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Do you have a source on the first note? I switched away from Claude around July because of how bad the usage limits were, and Codex gave me easily double the amount of usage per task completed. Would be interested to see if that's no longer the case.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:50:43.000Z","created_at_i":1790103043,"id":49806241,"options":[],"parent_id":49805972,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"> Usage limits [...] Winner right now is Codex by a mile
This hasn't been the case since around July. If you measure usage in raw api costs, Anthropic is actually giving more on $200 than OpenAI now. This includes resets. Usage allocation difference would be humiliating for codex subs were it not for resets. But fixing usage limits with resets is ugly, and they're not good for your mental well-being.
> Context window in the harness
Codex now allows 1M for subs with config params. But generally speaking, you shouldn't really be using 1M context. If you accidentally send a request with say, ~700k context already accumulated in a session which is outside cache TTL, you're paying full cost of these 700k tokens.
> I've subscription hopped a bunch
OpenAI actually has a new strategy to prevent subscription hopping after their 2-3 month-long marketing push to get claude-folks to switch over:
you can't buy a $200 sub anymore. So if you cancel, you won't be able to get back in. Hostage situation, essentially.
EDIT: re: usage limits, oh-my-pi maintainer has been tracking this - https://nitter.xitter.cc/_can1357/status/2090075496948060372","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"joshstrange","children":[{"author":"rgbrenner","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:02:16.000Z","created_at_i":1790103736,"id":49806408,"options":[],"parent_id":49806274,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Same experience. Have both subs. It's just not true anymore that Codex gives you more usage than Claude.
Makes me think they picked Codex, stopped trying Claude, and just hang on to outdated beliefs about the value they're receiving.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:53:02.000Z","created_at_i":1790103182,"id":49806274,"options":[],"parent_id":49805972,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Maybe it's due to 20x / 5x != 4 but I have the $200/mo Claude and $100/mo Codex and I get _way_ less usage on Codex, well under 1/4th the usage. In 1-2 days of semi-heavy _single_ agent usage with Sol High I can burn through my whole week of Codex. Again, this is not running multiple agents, just 1 at a time.
Compare that to Claude and I can run multiple agents on Opus almost indefinitely. YMMV of course but I was shocked at how quickly I burned through Codex usage.
On the context window, I feel so cramped on Codex, compacting happening every time I turn around is annoying. I didn't realize how much I enjoyed the Claude context window size.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"rgbrenner","children":[{"author":"wahnfrieden","children":[{"author":"rgbrenner","children":[{"author":"wahnfrieden","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:48:40.000Z","created_at_i":1790106520,"id":49807101,"options":[],"parent_id":49806470,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"The info you\u2019re citing is for API not Codex","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:05:17.000Z","created_at_i":1790103917,"id":49806470,"options":[],"parent_id":49806396,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Care to be specific? 20x is closed. And the 2x pricing is literally on the pricing sheet for gpt-6 astra, sol and luna.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:01:26.000Z","created_at_i":1790103686,"id":49806396,"options":[],"parent_id":49806305,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"You\u2019re sharing outdated info","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:54:48.000Z","created_at_i":1790103288,"id":49806305,"options":[],"parent_id":49805972,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"> Claude Code 20x and Codex Pro 20x
That isn't a valid comparison, since Codex 20x is closed. So we should be comparing Claud 20x to Codex 5x + credits.
Also in Codex, even though you can increase the context window to 1m so its on par with Claude, exceeding the default is billed at 2x.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"elxr","children":[{"author":"bix6","children":[{"author":"elxr","children":[{"author":"bix6","children":[{"author":"elxr","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:53:48.000Z","created_at_i":1790106828,"id":49807182,"options":[],"parent_id":49807108,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Significantly.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"CuriouslyC","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:56:31.000Z","created_at_i":1790106991,"id":49807217,"options":[],"parent_id":49807108,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Sam is sketchier on a personal level, but judged just on the words coming out of their mouths, he's also much less paternalistic/controlling and more customer focused.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:48:59.000Z","created_at_i":1790106539,"id":49807108,"options":[],"parent_id":49807088,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"And Sam is better?","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"hbrn","children":[{"author":"platinumrad","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T20:24:46.000Z","created_at_i":1790108686,"id":49807558,"options":[],"parent_id":49807269,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"The first one terrifies people who really don't need to be. It's deeply unethical.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T20:00:23.000Z","created_at_i":1790107223,"id":49807269,"options":[],"parent_id":49807088,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"I think opencode subscription issue is just a different marketing strategy. Neither company wants it, but OpenAI believes it's worth it as a marketing expense in the long run.
And Dario's "AI will kill us all" is the same as Sam's "AI will discover ALL science and we'll be building Dyson spheres".
Different flavors of the same BS.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:47:20.000Z","created_at_i":1790106440,"id":49807088,"options":[],"parent_id":49806416,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Their responses towards using their subscriptions on opencode for one. Second, Dario just has a habit of making completely doomer comments on the future of software engieering as a job and towards the open-weights model ecosystem.
Sure, he's free to say whatever especially considering the amount of revenue he's creating, but it's just an altitude that I prefer not to see.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:02:49.000Z","created_at_i":1790103769,"id":49806416,"options":[],"parent_id":49806342,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Reasons for this?
> Also, OpenAI is just a company I'd rather support than Anthropic.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"therein","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:16:01.000Z","created_at_i":1790104561,"id":49806654,"options":[],"parent_id":49806342,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"They are both companies I'd rather not support. Not that our support for them has any material impact. NVIDIA is bankrolling them directly and indirectly.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"InsideOutSanta","children":[{"author":"elxr","children":[{"author":"InsideOutSanta","children":[{"author":"elxr","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T20:31:30.000Z","created_at_i":1790109090,"id":49807656,"options":[],"parent_id":49807233,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"How about you tell me what makes the horrible then. There's pluses and minuses to both obviously, almost everyone around me have positive experiences with the product. They've innovated at a pace unheard of before 2026, and for openAI specifically the amount of value they've provided to me and family members (who aren't even developers in the slightest) has far outweighed the supposed horrible actions they've done.
Yeah I don't think the handling of copyrighted training data was correct, but I can't pretend I know what the correct solution to that issue is.
Speaking of OpenAI specifically, they don't price gouge people, they aren't aggressively anti-competitive, they're not nearly the perpetual hypocrisy machine that Anthropic is (which is one thing I actually really dislike).
Regarding Nestle, it's pretty obvious that the sentiment towards them is a lot more negative and they aren't universally loved by any group of people. Processed foods are by and large garbage nobody needs. Their use of forced labor is denounced by just about everyone. What have OpenAI/Anthropic done that's even similar in scope to the forced labor / modern slavery that people hate Nestle for.
If you had a company that genuinely helped hundreds of millions of people worldwide become more productive and more satisfied with their tools, and the overall sentiment towards your products within the industry is positive, then what argument would there be that your company is "horrible"? At least give some decent counter arguments.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:57:31.000Z","created_at_i":1790107051,"id":49807233,"options":[],"parent_id":49807180,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"> Also, I don't think either of them are horrible. That's honestly a ridiculous take considering how much people in here love their models
That's a non-sequitur.
"Nestle is a great company, considering how much people love their chocolate."","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"jsw97","children":[{"author":"elxr","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T20:34:03.000Z","created_at_i":1790109243,"id":49807681,"options":[],"parent_id":49807529,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"100% agree.
I often have the urge to design my own harness too (once I have more time). But even with the current mainstream harnesses out there, there's just to many hurdles if you wanted to mainly stick with anthropic models and need the subsidized pricing (from a sub).","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T20:22:11.000Z","created_at_i":1790108531,"id":49807529,"options":[],"parent_id":49807180,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"For me the first point, openness to 3rd party, is the decider. I don\u2019t want to build tooling around a completely closed model. I liked being able to use pi, and now I exclusively use my own harness which I modify the way I want. Not possible with Anthropic subscription.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:53:37.000Z","created_at_i":1790106817,"id":49807180,"options":[],"parent_id":49806721,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"OpenAI has been way more open with users using their subscription plans on 3rd party tools.
That alone is reason enough. Also, I don't think either of them are horrible. That's honestly a ridiculous take considering how much people in here love their models, and how much they've advanced the industry forward.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"andriy_koval","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T20:20:52.000Z","created_at_i":1790108452,"id":49807513,"options":[],"parent_id":49806721,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"> why Anthropic is worse than OpenAI
Anthropic is trying to kill open models way harder","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"nullc","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T20:28:25.000Z","created_at_i":1790108905,"id":49807610,"options":[],"parent_id":49806721,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"OpenAI just wants to make money, perhaps through underhanded tactics if they can get away with it.
Anthropic does all that but they're also populated by many people who believe they are building God and that they must build their god first in their own image so that it can take control of humanity and protect us from any competing god which is not built in their image. Their position is inherently paternalistic and authoritarian, and they consider suppression of competition not just important to the bottom line but to life in the universe. Under the doomer ethos there is no evil too great to rationalize.
There are plenty of wrongs done in the name of profit, but capitalists have nothing on zealots in terms of causing serious harm. Profit motives can be directed by influencing incentives, but zealotry is frequently terminal.
That isn't to say that there isn't some overlap-- the cultists have infected both organizations. But OpenAI has pretty consistently only given lip service to AI doom to the extent that it improves the bottom line, while (mis)Anthropic was founded specifically because OpenAI wasn't mentally ill enough.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:21:41.000Z","created_at_i":1790104901,"id":49806721,"options":[],"parent_id":49806342,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"> Also, OpenAI is just a company I'd rather support than Anthropic.
They're both pretty horrible, but I find it difficult to find arguments for why Anthropic is worse than OpenAI, other than their doomtrolling. Which, in the grand scheme of things, doesn't even register.
Edit: forgot about the SpaceX thing.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:58:01.000Z","created_at_i":1790103481,"id":49806342,"options":[],"parent_id":49805972,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Also, OpenAI is just a company I'd rather support than Anthropic.
While you're understandably not including the values of the $20 standard plans on both, I find the generosity of then token limits on ChatGPT plus vs Claude Pro (it's a huge difference) to be good representation of their respective attitudes towards the average user. You literally cannot use Claude pro to build real software, unless you're extremely frugal with your prompts and don't try anything even a little ambitious.
Also, Anthropic has zero models comparable to Luna.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"rbranson","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:59:25.000Z","created_at_i":1790103565,"id":49806361,"options":[],"parent_id":49805972,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Astra planner/designer with Sol+Luna subagents has worked well for me to improve context continuity. Luna generates code, Sol reviews code and runs/monitors integration/E2E tests. It's about 20% more usage efficient and 20% faster to finish tasks. I've been very subagent-skeptic for a while but the economics of codegen with Luna have made it click. This just works in Codex with a single-line AGENTS.md instruction.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"hintymad","children":[{"author":"InsideOutSanta","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:22:42.000Z","created_at_i":1790104962,"id":49806739,"options":[],"parent_id":49806463,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"They want to lock people into using the Claude Code ecosystem to make switching to other providers more difficult.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"glub","children":[{"author":"codybontecou","children":[{"author":"glub","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T20:14:13.000Z","created_at_i":1790108053,"id":49807442,"options":[],"parent_id":49807209,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Not natively, as it's still a ToS violation and adding that in pi would go against pi principles, but there are many plugins/proxies that make it work.
oh-my-pi supports it natively (again, still a ToS violation), by impersonating claude code's fingerprints.
I have been using oh-my-pi with 3 claude subs for the past few months without any issues. Even native server-side OAI/ANT compaction works out of the box.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:55:55.000Z","created_at_i":1790106955,"id":49807209,"options":[],"parent_id":49807062,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"You can use Claude\u2019s subscription in Pi now? Last I tried it opted for extra usage.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:44:54.000Z","created_at_i":1790106294,"id":49807062,"options":[],"parent_id":49806463,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"It's for lock-in - same reason why it took them so long to finally support AGENTS.md.
But to be fair, they don't really enforce the harness rule that much anymore. I guess if your harness doesn't do a lot of weird things like a lot of cache misses, or triggers some distillation attacks, or some broader Chinese fingerprints, they're tongue-in-cheek okay with you using a third party harness.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:04:50.000Z","created_at_i":1790103890,"id":49806463,"options":[],"parent_id":49805972,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"> Ability to use the plan outside of the official harness. Codex wins. Anthropic does shit like bills requests as extra usage if it sees a hermes.md in a commit.
I'm quite puzzled about why Anthropic is so hellbent on blocking other coding agents. It's not like Claude Code has any secret sauce, right? And doesn't Anthropic make monkey off API usage, and their magic is on the model side anyway?","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"impulser_","children":[{"author":"rednb","children":[{"author":"impulser_","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T20:40:02.000Z","created_at_i":1790109602,"id":49807758,"options":[],"parent_id":49806978,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"It was 9.4B to be exact and it was over the course of two days lol. It was between two projects so 99% of them were cached reads.
The GPT was about 1B on two projects on 300$ worth of plans all on Astra and I capped out on usage.
Anthropic caching must be better because the cache rates are better on Claude models.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:38:57.000Z","created_at_i":1790105937,"id":49806978,"options":[],"parent_id":49806505,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Have you used 10b/5b tokens over the course of a week or over the course of a month?","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:07:10.000Z","created_at_i":1790104030,"id":49806505,"options":[],"parent_id":49805972,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Usage is actually Claude now because of Opus 5.5 since it a better model that Astra. I maxed out my 200$ Claude plan with 10b token on Opus 5 and 5.5 is cheaper. I maxed out two Codex accounts with like not even 5b tokens.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"alansaber","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:27:34.000Z","created_at_i":1790105254,"id":49806822,"options":[],"parent_id":49805972,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"It's extremely variable because the products are roughly equivelant, and a lot of the quality of service depends on their inference capacity at any given hour/day.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"huijzer","children":[{"author":"jeffnash","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:37:37.000Z","created_at_i":1790105857,"id":49806961,"options":[],"parent_id":49806863,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"I realized I missed a few words here: I meant "especially when you factor in the fact that ChatGPT usage is unmetered", i.e. you get unlimited ChatGPT threads that don't eat into your codex limit","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"csnweb","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T20:07:41.000Z","created_at_i":1790107661,"id":49807366,"options":[],"parent_id":49806863,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"But did you use ChatGPT chat or the work mode? Only the former is unmetered at least for me as well.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:30:08.000Z","created_at_i":1790105408,"id":49806863,"options":[],"parent_id":49805972,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"> especially when you factor in ChatGPT usage (even 6 Astra Pro) is essentially unmetered on the 20x plan.
I\u2019m currently on the 5x plan and burned through 5% today on a difficult task in 15 minutes so I doubt that. If you got the wrong kind of tasks that you work on, it can go fast.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"Marciplan","children":[{"author":"platinumrad","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T20:27:49.000Z","created_at_i":1790108869,"id":49807593,"options":[],"parent_id":49807087,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"I don't think either of these companies are great, then, but Anthropic is surely worse. The doom marketing is one of the most unethical things an AI company can be doing.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:47:12.000Z","created_at_i":1790106432,"id":49807087,"options":[],"parent_id":49805972,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"cool! for me its company ethics","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"TomGarden","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:52:17.000Z","created_at_i":1790106737,"id":49807154,"options":[],"parent_id":49805972,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"OpenAI have seemed compute-constrained recently, leading to their subscriptions actually being less generous than Claude as of late. OpenAI even paused purchases of 20x plans.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"ChickeNES","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T20:16:45.000Z","created_at_i":1790108205,"id":49807478,"options":[],"parent_id":49805972,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"> that ChatGPT usage (even 6 Astra Pro) is essentially unmetered on the 20x plan
LMAO, I wish this were true, I hit limits (and the "we are disabling access to protect your data" warnings) all the time, or have chats just...fuck off and get into weird/invalid states (interrupted chats, chats that are spinning and stuck, returning "/mnt/" paths instead of images/md files, file links being returned with no file backing them, image classifier firing...and then returning the image anyway (though now I know that GPT-Image-X really really wants to generate NSFW even when that isn't the request)).
Though I am probably an outlier, I have both 20x Claude/ChatGPT plans and max both out every week, so... (in my defense I am a hobbyist and this is out-of-pocket)","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"chrisweekly","children":[{"author":"erichocean","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T20:31:41.000Z","created_at_i":1790109101,"id":49807660,"options":[],"parent_id":49807573,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Bad advice, compaction is why Codex is so fantastic.
My conversations compact hundreds of times. By the time it has done a dozen or so compactions, it fully understands the work I want it to do (and how). It's almost like having a fine-tuned Astra model.
10/10, would recommend.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T20:25:57.000Z","created_at_i":1790108757,"id":49807573,"options":[],"parent_id":49805972,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"> "Codex's compaction is very good, fwiw, but it happens so frequently that..."
I appreciate and follow Matt Pocock's advice: avoid autocompaction. Compaction is lossy, which is ok when you're managing it at phase boundaries, but autocompact is lossy at the most inopportune times, firing mid-task and leading to agents going off the rails.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:30:03.000Z","created_at_i":1790101803,"id":49805972,"options":[],"parent_id":49805509,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"At this point, the deciding factors for me between Claude Code 20x and Codex Pro 20x are:
1/ Usage limits: downstream of input/output cost, but resets and obscure windows and odd 20x plan / 5x plan != 4x usage math throw a wrench into it. Winner right now is Codex by a mile, especially when you factor in the fact that ChatGPT usage (even 6 Astra Pro) is essentially unmetered on the 20x plan. Always a bummer when asking if I should see a doctor about a rash means I can't code as much. It's also is a godsend if you use an MCP like oracle to automate the process of calling the Pro model on particularly tough problems, giving better planning results or deeper code analysis without burning usage.
2/ Context window in the harness. Claude Code wins on this. There used to be a toml file workaround for Codex to extend the GPT context window to 1m, but this stopped working on the plans and only on per-token billing (ETA: noname120 pointed out this is no longer the case and it can be enabled again [1]). 252k is just not enough. Codex's compaction is very good, fwiw, but it happens so frequently that even a model as powerful as Astra sometimes loses the plot on long-running tasks.
3/ Ability to use the plan outside of the official harness. Codex wins. Anthropic does shit like bills requests as extra usage if it sees a hermes.md in a commit.
I've subscription hopped a bunch, and at times I've had both, but I keep coming back to Codex because it wins on 2/3.
ETA: apparently I haven't been Keeping Up With the Altmans and new 20x signups have been disabled for a few weeks. I am grandfathered in, which makes the comparison above pretty much moot.
[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49806060","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"GodelNumbering","children":[{"author":"gizmodo59","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:57:29.000Z","created_at_i":1790107049,"id":49807232,"options":[],"parent_id":49805974,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"it was expected no? if cost is the only reason to use oss models, they can do much better than small providers who don't have much compute.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:30:13.000Z","created_at_i":1790101813,"id":49805974,"options":[],"parent_id":49805509,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Gpt 6 Luna is cheaper than Deepseek 4.1 flash! Today is wild in terms of intelligence/price across the board!","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"Someone1234","children":[{"author":"cmrdporcupine","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:35:25.000Z","created_at_i":1790102125,"id":49806058,"options":[],"parent_id":49805977,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Astra 6 was a huge improvement over Sol 5.6 for UI work. I haven't tried Sol 6 yet for it (it's only been a few minutes).
The GPT / Codex models have always been "overengineer" personalities. I prefer that to "I left a pile of race conditions lying around and big gaps in testing" though, which is what I was getting from Opus at times.
But yes both Astra and Sol veer on the side of paranoid. And honestly that's better for team work. For solo work where you just want to yeet something, it can be tiring.
You learn to tame the GPT "personality" on this front by combing over once a week and asking it to find and exterminate pointless tests, clean abstractions etc.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"faitswulff","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:43:36.000Z","created_at_i":1790106216,"id":49807042,"options":[],"parent_id":49805977,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"The UI design gap is something I\u2019ve noticed as well, in things as simple as ASCII diagrams. Claude has a more human touch. All the diagrams GPT 5.6 generated for me were dressed up lists with too many pipe symbols.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"c0rruptbytes","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T20:15:28.000Z","created_at_i":1790108128,"id":49807455,"options":[],"parent_id":49805977,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"have you tried using lower efforts?","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:30:25.000Z","created_at_i":1790101825,"id":49805977,"options":[],"parent_id":49805509,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Have they solved GPT5.6 SOL's propensity to over-engineer and over-complicate? You'd ask SOL to do something relatively simple, and find four single-use methods, an interface, and a factory-factory.
I actually preferred 5.6-Terra not because it is technically superior (it isn't) but because it had better instincts to NOT do this stuff.
PS - Speaking of better instincts, have they closed the UI-design gap at all? I keep a Claude subscription just because /design produces significantly higher quality UI design/UI feedback/UI refinement than anything I've seen from OpenAI.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"msp26","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:30:30.000Z","created_at_i":1790101830,"id":49805980,"options":[],"parent_id":49805509,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"This Luna pricing is obscene man. 5.6 was good enough for so many use cases (data analysis, structured extraction etc).
Incredible.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"ggcr","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:30:34.000Z","created_at_i":1790101834,"id":49805981,"options":[],"parent_id":49805509,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Live notification in Codex:
> GPT-5.6-Sol is retiring. This conversation will automatically switch to GPT-6-Sol
I don't recall OAI retiring a model so early lol. Similar arch?","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"scrlk","children":[{"author":"Readerium","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:38:15.000Z","created_at_i":1790102295,"id":49806094,"options":[],"parent_id":49805991,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Yup more like a 5.7 than a 6","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"scrollop","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:54:38.000Z","created_at_i":1790103278,"id":49806300,"options":[],"parent_id":49805991,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Can we trust AA anymore after the last debacle a week or two ago?","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:31:22.000Z","created_at_i":1790101882,"id":49805991,"options":[],"parent_id":49805509,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Artificial Analysis is reporting that 6 Luna scores 2 points lower on their coding index than 5.6 Luna, but is 60% cheaper:
> In the Coding Agent Index, Sol improves but Luna regresses: In OpenAI's Codex harness, GPT-6 Sol (max) scores 57 in the Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index, up 2 points from GPT-5.6 Sol (max), with gains in Terminal-Bench 4.0 (43% vs 37%) and SWE-Atlas-QnA (58% vs 54%). At $2.99 per task it costs ~50% less than GPT-5.6 Sol (max) and sits on the Pareto frontier of Coding Agent Index vs Cost per Task. GPT-6 Luna (max) scores 41, down 2 points from GPT-5.6 Luna (max), with lower scores in SWE-Atlas-QnA (44% vs 49%) and DeepSWE v1.1 (64% vs 66%), at ~60% lower cost per task.
https://x.com/ArtificialAnlys/status/2102462962758033624
Given that they had to discontinue sales of the 20x Pro plan after the Astra release due to compute constraints, I wonder if 6 Sol & Luna are smaller vs their 5.6 counterparts?","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"dmitrygr","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:32:08.000Z","created_at_i":1790101928,"id":49806008,"options":[],"parent_id":49805509,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Selling dollar bills for $0.40 to undercut the guys selling them for $0.50 is a bold move. Let's see if it pays off for them.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"ghoshbishakh","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:33:16.000Z","created_at_i":1790101996,"id":49806026,"options":[],"parent_id":49805509,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"So opus 5.5 has reduced price. Who is winning then?","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"hamburglar1","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:33:55.000Z","created_at_i":1790102035,"id":49806037,"options":[],"parent_id":49805509,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Code deception 10% at 5.6 to 1.3% for 6.0? So models are getting more safe rather than less safe? hmmm","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"OutOfHere","children":[{"author":"seizethecheese","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:54:48.000Z","created_at_i":1790103288,"id":49806304,"options":[],"parent_id":49806049,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"They dropped Terra because it was worse than Luna / Sol at every point of cost performance curve.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"CharlieDigital","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:58:06.000Z","created_at_i":1790103486,"id":49806343,"options":[],"parent_id":49806049,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"I can already see it. 7-Nebula, 8-Galactic, 9-Cosmos; The size inflation is real.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:34:34.000Z","created_at_i":1790102074,"id":49806049,"options":[],"parent_id":49805509,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"As a user of 5.6-Terra, I am sick and tired of the inconsistencies in GPT model families. There is no 6-Terra.
As for any cost based argument, it is immediately invalid because the cost is something that OpenAI fully controls and manipulates.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"m3kw9","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:36:03.000Z","created_at_i":1790102163,"id":49806066,"options":[],"parent_id":49805509,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"The new default is 6.0 Sol high. Escalate to Astra-medium. If usage is tight go luna6.0-max","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"seatac76","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:37:24.000Z","created_at_i":1790102244,"id":49806078,"options":[],"parent_id":49805509,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Would be funny if Google drops Gemini 4 today.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"zaik","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:37:39.000Z","created_at_i":1790102259,"id":49806082,"options":[],"parent_id":49805509,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Why is Claude missing on the "Factuality" graph?","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"simonw","children":[{"author":"pantsforbirds","children":[{"author":"redanddead","children":[{"author":"8bitsout","children":[{"author":"redanddead","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T20:36:17.000Z","created_at_i":1790109377,"id":49807714,"options":[],"parent_id":49807197,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Ayyy
I saw him pinning in the locker room the other day","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:55:15.000Z","created_at_i":1790106915,"id":49807197,"options":[],"parent_id":49806189,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"he's been cycling a lot","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:46:16.000Z","created_at_i":1790102776,"id":49806189,"options":[],"parent_id":49806166,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"He\u2019s been biking a lot","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:44:38.000Z","created_at_i":1790102678,"id":49806166,"options":[],"parent_id":49806126,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"The sol max looks like it's absolutely ripped for some reason","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"jdw64","children":[{"author":"loeg","children":[{"author":"flyinglizard","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T20:01:34.000Z","created_at_i":1790107294,"id":49807283,"options":[],"parent_id":49806583,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"That's just foreshadowing the next generation of 32" all-mountain frames.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:11:26.000Z","created_at_i":1790104286,"id":49806583,"options":[],"parent_id":49806204,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"And the bicycles have weird dimensions -- extremely slack head tube angle, handlebars in the wrong orientation, etc.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:47:22.000Z","created_at_i":1790102842,"id":49806204,"options":[],"parent_id":49806126,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Looking at this, AI still has a long way to go. In Sol Max, the pelican's legs are missing on one side\u2014how can one side have two pedals and two legs...","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"dmazin","children":[{"author":"agentcoops","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:49:23.000Z","created_at_i":1790106563,"id":49807114,"options":[],"parent_id":49806209,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"I\u2019ve been doing really heavy text analysis work with LLMs where false negatives/misses are important to minimize and my god did I hit cost thresholds quickly with 5.6 Luna \u2014 it was the first time I felt motivated to seriously work with local open models, even if inference was degraded for the task. Cheaper and much better inference now brings me back to the closed models for better or worse.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"onlyrealcuzzo","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:52:29.000Z","created_at_i":1790106749,"id":49807160,"options":[],"parent_id":49806209,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Hopefully Terra 6 slots somewhat nicely into this space.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"FusionX","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T20:07:51.000Z","created_at_i":1790107671,"id":49807367,"options":[],"parent_id":49806209,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"5.6 Luna was already discounted at half the price on OpenRouter. Looks like they made it permanent.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"user43928","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T20:26:52.000Z","created_at_i":1790108812,"id":49807580,"options":[],"parent_id":49806209,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Yes, I am mildly disappointed with these releases.
I expected a Fable 5 -> Opus 5 situation, where GPT 6 Sol would perform on par with GPT 6 Astra.
Instead it's more like a price cut on GPT 5.6 Sol, and I'll have to stick with Astra for my work.
The only thing I can hope for is that more users switching to the GPT 6 Sol model frees capacity, allowing OpenAI to hand out some usage resets.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:47:54.000Z","created_at_i":1790102874,"id":49806209,"options":[],"parent_id":49806126,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"> GPT-6 Luna being half the price of GPT-5.6 Luna is a really big deal.
Is it? It was already too cheap to meter for me. Luna 6 is actually worse on some benchmarks than 5.6. I\u2019d have loved improved performance for 2x the price than ~equal performance for 0.5x the price.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"gizmodo59","children":[{"author":"krat0sprakhar","children":[{"author":"jadbox","children":[{"author":"antupis","children":[{"author":"jeffnash","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:42:50.000Z","created_at_i":1790106170,"id":49807032,"options":[],"parent_id":49806761,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"out of curiosity, what type of code/language do you usually use flash to write?","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:24:15.000Z","created_at_i":1790105055,"id":49806761,"options":[],"parent_id":49806458,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Flash thinks much more so it\u2019s pretty much line with Sol for performance. That said I like flash coding style much more than OpenAi models.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"Citizen_Lame","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:42:57.000Z","created_at_i":1790106177,"id":49807034,"options":[],"parent_id":49806458,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.1 Pro are pure rubbish. Very little thinking, mediocre and usually incorrect results. They cannot be compared to frontier models.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"oh_no","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T20:01:18.000Z","created_at_i":1790107278,"id":49807280,"options":[],"parent_id":49806458,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"look at token use, 3.8 flash is a huge token hog compared to openai models","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:04:41.000Z","created_at_i":1790103881,"id":49806458,"options":[],"parent_id":49806239,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Gemini 3.8 Flash looks like its better than v7 Luna/Sol on DeepSWE v1.1 while at $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output tokens. Luna is much cheaper, but Flash has nearly Astra's performance for under the price of Sol ($2/$10).","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:50:39.000Z","created_at_i":1790103039,"id":49806239,"options":[],"parent_id":49806211,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Can't agree more. Between 5.6 Luna and Gemini 3.8 flash I'm so happy for the value I'm getting for my dollar (subscription pricing not API pricing) :)","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"booty","children":[{"author":"atoav","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T20:34:22.000Z","created_at_i":1790109262,"id":49807690,"options":[],"parent_id":49806631,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"[delayed]","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"larodi","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T20:35:34.000Z","created_at_i":1790109334,"id":49807706,"options":[],"parent_id":49806631,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"> Well, here's the neat thing: they don't!
perhaps it then does mean - squeeze as much as you can get off this actual free usage.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:14:45.000Z","created_at_i":1790104485,"id":49806631,"options":[],"parent_id":49806211,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"
I dont know how they make money here\nSnark aside, Luna 5.6 was (is) an incredible game-changer.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"InsideOutSanta","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:17:33.000Z","created_at_i":1790104653,"id":49806677,"options":[],"parent_id":49806211,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"> I dont know how they make money here
By raising it from investors.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"m101","children":[{"author":"abirch","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:43:49.000Z","created_at_i":1790106229,"id":49807043,"options":[],"parent_id":49807023,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"works great until they raise prices.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:42:26.000Z","created_at_i":1790106146,"id":49807023,"options":[],"parent_id":49806211,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"perhaps they use this as the carrot to get you locked into their monthly plan over anthropic's.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"7777777phil","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:53:11.000Z","created_at_i":1790106791,"id":49807170,"options":[],"parent_id":49806211,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"I guess I have to update my pareto front then: https://philippdubach.com/posts/jev-model-router-for-pi/","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"zozbot234","children":[{"author":"Ternari","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T20:38:03.000Z","created_at_i":1790109483,"id":49807735,"options":[],"parent_id":49807190,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"That's not what the Pareto frontier is; you're mixing up Pareto frontier with Pareto principle.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_front
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:54:33.000Z","created_at_i":1790106873,"id":49807190,"options":[],"parent_id":49806211,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"MiMo 2.6 Pro is at the Pareto frontier (the one where you only need 20% of the smarts for 80% of the tasks) according to Artificial Analysis, nicely filling in as a substitute for a hypothetical 'GPT-6 Terra' (which doesn't exist as far as we know). That's pretty darn impressive from an open model.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"arcanemachiner","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T20:08:03.000Z","created_at_i":1790107683,"id":49807371,"options":[],"parent_id":49806211,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"> I dont know how they make money here
I assume it's a subsidy to get more training data.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"the__alchemist","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T20:26:24.000Z","created_at_i":1790108784,"id":49807576,"options":[],"parent_id":49806211,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"How does 6-Luna xhigh compare to 6-Sol medium? Or more broadly newer/bigger model with lower effort vs older/smaller higher effort?","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"lacker","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T20:39:39.000Z","created_at_i":1790109579,"id":49807755,"options":[],"parent_id":49806211,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Offering Luna for cheap is like restaurants giving you free bread and water. They're pretty sure that you're going to end up eating the expensive stuff on the menu.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:48:04.000Z","created_at_i":1790102884,"id":49806211,"options":[],"parent_id":49806126,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"6-luna is at the pareto for most of the tasks! I dont know how they make money here but its insane value from a closed source model. I'd go further and say it makes no sense (privacy, sovereignty etc aside) to use many other models as its not only expensive but also many providers don't have that much GPUs to serve at a significant volume. https://openrouter.ai/rankings?view=month#top-models 5.6 luna is already the most used model this month.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"saretup","children":[{"author":"simonw","children":[{"author":"hdz","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:08:49.000Z","created_at_i":1790104129,"id":49806543,"options":[],"parent_id":49806237,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Tons of value left, especially for open source models. I would say the benchmark is yet to be truly saturated (just look at the legs and seat to see what I am talking about) and I always look forward to seeing them. Thank you!","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:50:21.000Z","created_at_i":1790103021,"id":49806237,"options":[],"parent_id":49806212,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Yeah, it's interesting how much worse they are than the Astra pelicans. I think that reflects a tiny bit of genuine value still left in the benchmark, to be honest.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"alansaber","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:25:19.000Z","created_at_i":1790105119,"id":49806781,"options":[],"parent_id":49806212,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"It would be extremely funny if the explosion in SVG generation capability in particular was a result of this benchmark","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:48:04.000Z","created_at_i":1790102884,"id":49806212,"options":[],"parent_id":49806126,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Not that this benchmark is super relevant anymore but these look worse than I expected.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"varispeed","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:54:17.000Z","created_at_i":1790103257,"id":49806293,"options":[],"parent_id":49806126,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"When the Astra one was last time run? It's probably better to run these 2-4 weeks after release when models get nerfed to get idea of performance closer to what it is.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"saltysugar","children":[{"author":"manojlds","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:05:14.000Z","created_at_i":1790103914,"id":49806469,"options":[],"parent_id":49806311,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"He also blogged why he thinks it's still useful","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:55:24.000Z","created_at_i":1790103324,"id":49806311,"options":[],"parent_id":49806126,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Isn't everyone pelican-maxxing these days?","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"mkotlikov","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:57:49.000Z","created_at_i":1790103469,"id":49806341,"options":[],"parent_id":49806126,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"How come the pelicans get older with more reasoning? Is GPT 6 taunting us with our mortality?","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"norman784","children":[{"author":"tedsanders","children":[{"author":"norman784","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:18:20.000Z","created_at_i":1790104700,"id":49806692,"options":[],"parent_id":49806414,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Yeah, but it confuses me, I read left to right, so if they put GPT-6 and $0.20 first, I would assume that's the new pricing, they should make it clear, not confusing.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:02:43.000Z","created_at_i":1790103763,"id":49806414,"options":[],"parent_id":49806399,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Yes, GPT-6 Luna is 50%-58% cheaper than GPT-5.6 Luna. (I think the blog text and graphs make it pretty clear.)","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"simonw","children":[{"author":"norman784","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:16:34.000Z","created_at_i":1790104594,"id":49806663,"options":[],"parent_id":49806464,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Yeah, how they put, is confusing to me, they should have put that table instead of what they have right now in the article.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:04:56.000Z","created_at_i":1790103896,"id":49806464,"options":[],"parent_id":49806399,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"The table on https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/pricing is more readable:
+--------------+-------+--------------+--------------+--------+\n | Model | Input | Cached input | Cache writes | Output |\n +--------------+-------+--------------+--------------+--------+\n | gpt-6-luna | $0.10 | $0.01 | $0.125 | $0.50 |\n | gpt-5.6-luna | $0.20 | $0.02 | $0.25 | $1.20 |\n +--------------+-------+--------------+--------------+--------+> GPT\u20116 Luna vs. GPT\u20115.6 Luna | $0.20 \u2192 $0.10 | $1.20 \u2192 $0.50 | 50% cheaper
I can read it as follows (below), meaning that GPT-5.6 is 50% cheaper.
- GPT-6 = $0.20
- GPT-5.6 = $0.10","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"nanook","children":[{"author":"simonw","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:05:26.000Z","created_at_i":1790103926,"id":49806472,"options":[],"parent_id":49806412,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"https://simonwillison.net/tags/pelican-riding-a-bicycle/ but I need to build something better.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:02:36.000Z","created_at_i":1790103756,"id":49806412,"options":[],"parent_id":49806126,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Do you have a page showing all the pelicans you've ever created? Could be fun to browse - kinda like https://progress.openai.com/ but visual. (It's a shame they don't keep it updated)
I'm so tired of looking at benchmarks. I always look fwd to the pelicans.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"Cu3PO42","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:04:17.000Z","created_at_i":1790103857,"id":49806449,"options":[],"parent_id":49806126,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"I find it very interesting that for both these models we such a clear progression of better images with higher thinking levels from 'hardly useful' to 'pretty nice'. I feel on many other models low and max are much closer.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"dbbk","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:07:49.000Z","created_at_i":1790104069,"id":49806514,"options":[],"parent_id":49806126,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"If you're happy with letting Meta train on you, Muse Spark 1.3 Contributor pricing is a much better deal than Luna","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"addaon","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:17:15.000Z","created_at_i":1790104635,"id":49806674,"options":[],"parent_id":49806126,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Is Luna (on "low" thinking) the first left handed model?","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"adverbly","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:24:17.000Z","created_at_i":1790105057,"id":49806763,"options":[],"parent_id":49806126,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Many of them still get the layers wrong.
They put both legs on the same side of the bike.
Even Astra max which actually put one leg on each side of the bike still somehow messed it up because when it added the bike chain, it put the left leg between the bike chain and the frame.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"order-matters","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:28:27.000Z","created_at_i":1790105307,"id":49806836,"options":[],"parent_id":49806126,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"out of curiosity, do you retry the same model multiple times to see the range of output it comes up with? or is it purely a 1-shot test","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"psma_egeliaa","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:28:33.000Z","created_at_i":1790105313,"id":49806839,"options":[],"parent_id":49806126,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"What's with the radial spokes? When are we gonna start seeing proper cross lacing?","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"ChickeNES","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:35:27.000Z","created_at_i":1790105727,"id":49806935,"options":[],"parent_id":49806126,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"> GPT-6 Luna being half the price of GPT-5.6 Luna is a really big deal.
good god","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"dom96","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:35:59.000Z","created_at_i":1790105759,"id":49806941,"options":[],"parent_id":49806126,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"It's surprising but MiMo V2.6 Pro performs better and is cheaper than GPT 6 Sol on my benchmark[1]. Open weight models are really snapping at the heels of the major western models.
1 - https://bench.killswitch-lang.org","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"ijidak","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:36:12.000Z","created_at_i":1790105772,"id":49806943,"options":[],"parent_id":49806126,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"What I like about the grid of SVGs is from I can see that Astra high seems to yield similar quality and price to Sol 6 max.
And Astra medium seems to yield similar or better quality for the same price as Sol 6 xhigh.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"hamrocksissors","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:43:15.000Z","created_at_i":1790106195,"id":49807037,"options":[],"parent_id":49806126,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Out of all of the benchmarks out there, pelican bicycle bench is the only one I care about. Thank you Simon.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"aidos","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:46:57.000Z","created_at_i":1790106417,"id":49807080,"options":[],"parent_id":49806126,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"That GPT-6 Sol max pelican looks\u2026 so old and depressed.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"rayiner","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:48:34.000Z","created_at_i":1790106514,"id":49807100,"options":[],"parent_id":49806126,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"It's funny that even Astra doesn't know you ride a bike by straddling it between your legs. (EDIT: Oh, I guess Max gets the occlusion. But it doesn't realize it has to pick direction the knee bends in.)","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"matznerd","children":[{"author":"simonw","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T20:05:03.000Z","created_at_i":1790107503,"id":49807333,"options":[],"parent_id":49807261,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"That's a good idea. It's the default output for my `llm logs` command, but that header could at least show the model ID.
OG images will require me to move away from publishing in a Gist and linking to from a JavaScript page that loads the Gist. Probably worthwhile though.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:59:39.000Z","created_at_i":1790107179,"id":49807261,"options":[],"parent_id":49806126,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Simon, love your work, one piece of minor feedback for the individual model pages is to make the font of the model name potentially bigger than (and above) the conversation id (which means nothing to the audience) "2026-09-22T18:28:00 conversation: 01m355zvyw8946qyraa8zpz6h9 id: 01m355zvyx47zxx5c6q6b3fg0m#".
I had all the tabs open individually and harder to scan which model is which... otherwise keep up the great work! I like the grid view a lot. (Also the pages have no OG images set, which impacts what the link looks like shared)...","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"arcanemachiner","children":[{"author":"user43928","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T20:28:18.000Z","created_at_i":1790108898,"id":49807607,"options":[],"parent_id":49807387,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"After the price drop. GPT-6 Luna does not perform better than 5.6, so they can't raise the price.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T20:09:23.000Z","created_at_i":1790107763,"id":49807387,"options":[],"parent_id":49806126,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"> half the price of GPT-5.6 Luna
Half the price when it launched, or after the price dropped by 75%?","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"inshard","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T20:32:16.000Z","created_at_i":1790109136,"id":49807662,"options":[],"parent_id":49806126,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"My new sub-benchmark is which combinations achieve the hook at the end of the upper beak. Right now just 4: Astra Max, XHigh and Medium; GPT 6 Sol Max","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:41:25.000Z","created_at_i":1790102485,"id":49806126,"options":[],"parent_id":49805509,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"GPT-6 Luna being half the price of GPT-5.6 Luna is a really big deal.
Here's GPT-6 Luna pelicans: https://tools.simonwillison.net/markdown-svg-renderer?url=ht...
And GPT-6 Sol: https://tools.simonwillison.net/markdown-svg-renderer?url=ht...
Scroll to the bottom for the GPT-6 Sol max one: https://tools.simonwillison.net/markdown-svg-renderer?url=ht...
For comparison, here are the pelicans I got for GPT-6 Astra: https://tools.simonwillison.net/markdown-svg-renderer?url=ht... - I still like the Astra Max one best.
Here's a comparison grid showing all of the GPT-6 and GPT-5.6 pelicans at all effort levels: https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2026/gpt-6-and-5.6.h...
The grid is actually really interesting, because it shows that the 5.6 family default to brighter colors than the 6 family.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"jumploops","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:41:46.000Z","created_at_i":1790102506,"id":49806129,"options":[],"parent_id":49805509,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"I\u2019m still finding context is king, even with the best models.
For example, I had Fable review Astra\u2019s output yesterday, and it found some issues and fixed them. Passing the fixes back, Astra then uncovered additional issues with Fable\u2019s fixes (and yes, this will go on ad infinitum if you let it, but these were \u201creal\u201d issues).
It seems the big story here is the reduced Luna pricing. It\u2019s a fantastic model that can handle most automation needs (though I still use the big models for day-to-day development).","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"thm","children":[{"author":"willy_k","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:10:06.000Z","created_at_i":1790104206,"id":49806561,"options":[],"parent_id":49806160,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"A good router on the user-facing end would be nice, but I\u2019d rather be able to get a feel for which car I\u2019m driving and pick one depending on the task, than have to hope the rental agency knows what I need.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:44:22.000Z","created_at_i":1790102662,"id":49806160,"options":[],"parent_id":49805509,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"AI needs to get rid of model versioning and model effort combinations. It's like selling an automatic transmission but still asking you to choose the gear, then after the trip telling you how much fuel you burned.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"NickHoff","children":[{"author":"therealdrag0","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:01:06.000Z","created_at_i":1790103666,"id":49806389,"options":[],"parent_id":49806183,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Ya it\u2019s annoying to have to manage this.
But effort is basically how much extra internal scratchpad to use and how much extra questions to ask and answer before producing a result, Exploring more hypotheses, validating consistencies, calling more tools.
If you\u2019re happy with your token spend on Astra then keep doing what you\u2019re doing. but if you feel the need to conserve tokens, then you can do that by switching to smaller models like Luna when the task is straight forward.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"miohtama","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:02:26.000Z","created_at_i":1790103746,"id":49806411,"options":[],"parent_id":49806183,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"For easy problems, just use Luna on max level. It has so much token mileage you can go forever.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"altcognito","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:06:32.000Z","created_at_i":1790103992,"id":49806493,"options":[],"parent_id":49806183,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"I would describe it as "fidelity" and "verbosity" (or just amount of token generation to complete the task, sometimes that works out to scratch space, or literally how large the "solution" is).
If you have something that needs to be done right, might be a bit complicated, up the model size.
You can see this in the pelicans. Big model pelicans are pretty accurate by default. Up the reasoning and only more so, but with more detail. For Astra, it is 105 lines for low, 250 lines for max reasoning.
Small model pelicans will lack the fidelity of a large model. Bits will be out of place etc. For luna, it's 90 lines for low, 150 lines for xhigh.
Additionally the amount of time taken is increased for the larger models. Luna takes 11 seconds on low, and 1:33 for xhigh. Astra is 33 seconds on low, 4 minutes on max.
And naturally, there is the cost. There's some overlap in functionality between luna xhigh and Astra low in the sense that luna really can do quite a suitable job for some tasks. But there are just some tasks that just don't make sense for Luna, even at high reasoning.
The other thing to remember is that sometimes high fidelity isn't ideal. It can lead to overdesigning. My recommendation is to commit early, commit often, and review everything you do, which we've all been doing since before LLMs right?","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"brazukadev","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:06:40.000Z","created_at_i":1790104000,"id":49806497,"options":[],"parent_id":49806183,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"there is no correct answer for that. One is the difference in size/params. The other is the amount of "rounds" of reasoning generating and reviewing what is generated before the model decides it is good.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"cbg0","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:13:55.000Z","created_at_i":1790104435,"id":49806617,"options":[],"parent_id":49806183,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"This is explained a bit in the API docs but you also have to adjust it based on your own tasks.
https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/reasoning?api-...","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"sva_","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:15:49.000Z","created_at_i":1790104549,"id":49806647,"options":[],"parent_id":49806183,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"I mostly just use frontier models as well. Except for one case: when I let the cache expire (I think 5+ mins of inactivity) I'll switch to one of the cheaper models to summarize and write a handoff note, then pick that up with the better model. Picking up a session whose cache expired with something like 200k tokens with the frontier model reflects really poorly on your usage.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:45:51.000Z","created_at_i":1790102751,"id":49806183,"options":[],"parent_id":49805509,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"When I use these models in codex, there are two axes for me to control - the model and the reasoning level. I can use Astra, Sol, or Luna. And I can choose between 5 reasoning levels (light, medium, high, extra high, and ultra). What's the difference? As the problems that I want codex to solve get easier, should I turn down the model or the reasoning level? What's the difference between Astra medium and Luna high? So far I've just been leaving it on Astra and then turning the reasoning level up or down based on how hard I think the problem is.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"ComputerGuru","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:52:52.000Z","created_at_i":1790103172,"id":49806269,"options":[],"parent_id":49805509,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Wow, gpt-5.6-Luna was already a fairly unbeatable bargain and now gpt-6-luna is both cheaper and better. And they did a phenomenal job getting gpt-6-sol to max out right where Astra begins; funny how they just so happened to avoid cannibalizing their best model while still being quite cost-competitive near the frontier.
At least it sounds good on paper, the the graphed results do give me pause as it seems the lower cost might come from a slightly nerfed base model combined with more thinking, going by the more erratic scoring curves and the lower no thinking baseline score. I\u2019ll have to try it out but I really hope they haven\u2019t nerfed Luna/Sol to make this price point possible!","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"adamrezich","children":[{"author":"thimabi","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:09:41.000Z","created_at_i":1790104181,"id":49806557,"options":[],"parent_id":49806385,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"It\u2019s confusing indeed, but I like having many options, particularly considering that pricing can be wildly different depending on the model.
Maybe OpenAI can offer an "auto" mode for Codex on the subscriptions, while leaving the possibility of users manually overriding whatever model the router chooses. To me that would be the best of both worlds. The problem is building a competent model router.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:01:01.000Z","created_at_i":1790103661,"id":49806385,"options":[],"parent_id":49805509,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"If I'm understanding correctly now when you want to use Codex to do a given task you need to decide between:
GPT-6 Astra (low medium high xhigh max ultra)\n GPT-6 Sol (low medium high xhigh max ultra)\n GPT-6 Luna (low medium high xhigh max ultra)\n GPT-5.6 Sol (low medium high xhigh max ultra)\n GPT-5.6 Luna (low medium high xhigh max ultra)\n GPT-5.6 Terra (low medium high xhigh max ultra)\n \n GPT-5.5 (low medium high xhigh max ultra)\nNot exactly a low-friction user experience!
Like are you supposed to just somehow intuit, \u201cah yeah, this task is definitely a GPT-6 Sol Medium task,\u201d or something?
Is this just second nature for OpenAI employees? How are end users supposed to know how to optimally choose a model for a given task? Am I missing something completely here?","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"declan_roberts","children":[{"author":"gizmodo59","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:52:24.000Z","created_at_i":1790106744,"id":49807156,"options":[],"parent_id":49806400,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"yeah I used to love claude! but these days it refuses and responds as if its like a big brother. glad competition exists and for the past few months codex has been significantly better. Even some oss models like glm are good but they dont have enough compute and get capacity constraints","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:01:48.000Z","created_at_i":1790103708,"id":49806400,"options":[],"parent_id":49805509,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"I just switched from Claude to openAI. I'm surprised at how much easier it is to talk to. Claude always spoke to me with a suspicious side eye as if I was trying to do something naughty. For example I could not get it to help me get an old abandonware game running (sim tower).","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"ElliotAndersonC","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:03:47.000Z","created_at_i":1790103827,"id":49806434,"options":[],"parent_id":49805509,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Hello, I'm Elliot. You need to delete your AI servers or I'll do it myself.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"apitman","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:04:20.000Z","created_at_i":1790103860,"id":49806451,"options":[],"parent_id":49805509,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Since I spent my morning fixing a bug in my OpenAI API proxy that completely broke prompt caching and caused my usage limits to burn like kindling, really happy to see some of their new cache tooling:
* Prompt caching dashboard: https://platform.openai.com/usage?usage_section=prompt-cachi...
* Adjust reasoning effort and tool availability without breaking cache","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"apitman","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:05:35.000Z","created_at_i":1790103935,"id":49806476,"options":[],"parent_id":49805509,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"RIP Terra","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"mchusma","children":[{"author":"cbg0","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:21:07.000Z","created_at_i":1790104867,"id":49806714,"options":[],"parent_id":49806512,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Those two reasoning efforts are for entirely different classes of problems. I'd compare Opus Medium vs Sol High.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:07:36.000Z","created_at_i":1790104056,"id":49806512,"options":[],"parent_id":49805509,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"My initial takeaway is that GPT-6 is mostly a lower cost win, for Luna. GPT-6 Max is an upgrade on intelligence too, but its mostly a cost play (which is great, not complaining).
Overall, I expect for most people think the winner of today was Anthropic. I personally am preferring Opus 5.5 at medium over GPT-6 Sol Max, in very very early tests. Similar price range, more capability.
But competiton is great, these are solid releases by OpenAI today.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"endorphine","children":[{"author":"arizen","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T20:28:16.000Z","created_at_i":1790108896,"id":49807606,"options":[],"parent_id":49806553,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Simple as it sounds but I ask Sol or Astra to propose optimal model and effort level for a given workload. Works pretty neat for me.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:09:26.000Z","created_at_i":1790104166,"id":49806553,"options":[],"parent_id":49805509,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"The hard part for me is choosing the model and effort, that's why I always resort to Astra xhigh, but then it ends up consuming tokens so fast.
How do you decide what to pick? I mean, I do Platform work on a large monorepo with many different interconnected services, and so I always want the implementation to be "correct".","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"johnnyApplePRNG","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:10:44.000Z","created_at_i":1790104244,"id":49806571,"options":[],"parent_id":49805509,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"/r/codex is in shambles
I wouldn't be curious to sign up to codex whatsoever these days
These token reset shenanigans are insane","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"toephu2","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:10:48.000Z","created_at_i":1790104248,"id":49806573,"options":[],"parent_id":49805509,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"When using max effort, I run into context compaction quite a lot. I haven't seen any increase in context window size at all over the past half year (stuck at 1M) for all the flagship frontier models.
Have the frontier labs stopped trying to increase context window size?","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"Spone","children":[{"author":"ambicapter","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:21:23.000Z","created_at_i":1790104883,"id":49806718,"options":[],"parent_id":49806627,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"shhhh, follow the vibes","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"kockeifjejf","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T20:42:56.000Z","created_at_i":1790109776,"id":49807797,"options":[],"parent_id":49806627,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Why is the sun the centre of the galaxy? It\u2019s AI. It doesn\u2019t make sense.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:14:39.000Z","created_at_i":1790104479,"id":49806627,"options":[],"parent_id":49805509,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Something is off with the header animation... why are the stars moving?","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"lwansbrough","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:16:50.000Z","created_at_i":1790104610,"id":49806666,"options":[],"parent_id":49805509,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Just what I was hoping for, very nice. Luna seems like a real replacement for DeepSeek on pricing. Haven't seen a comparison benchmark yet.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"timedude","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:20:34.000Z","created_at_i":1790104834,"id":49806710,"options":[],"parent_id":49805509,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"I need gpt luna 6 intelligence at gpt4o mini speeds. Wen?","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"scosman","children":[{"author":"vinzenzu","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:31:09.000Z","created_at_i":1790105469,"id":49806878,"options":[],"parent_id":49806729,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"There is no Opus 5.1.\nGuess you're talking about Fable 5.1","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:22:08.000Z","created_at_i":1790104928,"id":49806729,"options":[],"parent_id":49805509,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Excluding Opus 5.1 from the coding benchmarks is telling. Opus 5 already matches Astra, Opus 5.1 is much better than 5, and 5.5 is much better again.
OpenAI seems really competitive in most areas, and extremely competitive on cost, but still behind on coding.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"jjcm","children":[{"author":"wonnage","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:58:43.000Z","created_at_i":1790107123,"id":49807246,"options":[],"parent_id":49806791,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"The thin serifs not being slightly shifted to align weight-wise with the sans serif is triggering my OCD, but yeah Astra is miles ahead here","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:25:43.000Z","created_at_i":1790105143,"id":49806791,"options":[],"parent_id":49805509,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"More image->html tests comparing Astra/Sol/Luna:
Design: https://image.non.io/78795662-8bfc-4e14-8d72-3738392aa6b3.we...
All 3 were given the same prompt to dynamically light these and to create the designs as a SPA with page transitions.
Astra: https://html.non.io/annui-astra
Sol: https://html.non.io/annui-sol
Luna: https://html.non.io/annui-luna
Luna gets the button wrong, and in the same way Grok/MiMo did. Looking into it more, it's because Luna actually searched my computer for similar builds, found the ones that I did for grok/mimo, and referenced their files. Astra is still the best by a significant margin in my eyes. Far more polish, better page transitions, effects that aren't overcooked and take into account the page. Better contrast.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"Upvoter33","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:25:50.000Z","created_at_i":1790105150,"id":49806794,"options":[],"parent_id":49805509,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"I'm looking forward to the day where pelicans aren't the first thing in discussion threads about model releases... no offense(!)","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"darrelld","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:26:40.000Z","created_at_i":1790105200,"id":49806808,"options":[],"parent_id":49805509,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Am I the only one that doesn't really feel a difference in performance from model to model?
From around GPT 4 results got "Good enough"...I generally try to explain what problem I'm trying to solve, set limitations and boundaries, tell it to ask me questions, have it write up a plan with steps then we take one step at a time.
These new models are starting to feel like iPhone releases where the improvements / feature set feels incremental.
Same on the Claude side which I use for work","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"jacobgold","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:26:44.000Z","created_at_i":1790105204,"id":49806813,"options":[],"parent_id":49805509,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"These counter-launches are starting to seem kind of tacky and boring. Just launch on your own scheduled guys.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"blahblaher","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:31:58.000Z","created_at_i":1790105518,"id":49806889,"options":[],"parent_id":49805509,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"so... is this AGI, for real this time?","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"blahblaher","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:33:49.000Z","created_at_i":1790105629,"id":49806916,"options":[],"parent_id":49805509,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"so... is this AGI, for real now? or it's coming in the next 6 to 12 months?","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"spicyusername","children":[{"author":"ssd532","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T20:20:00.000Z","created_at_i":1790108400,"id":49807507,"options":[],"parent_id":49806942,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"With the arrival of Astra I guess Sol has taken the spot of Terra where it's the sweet spot between Astra and Luna.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:36:08.000Z","created_at_i":1790105768,"id":49806942,"options":[],"parent_id":49805509,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Bummer there is no Terra. \nI found Terra to be the sweet spit in price / performance.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"xixixao","children":[{"author":"motoboi","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:54:14.000Z","created_at_i":1790106854,"id":49807185,"options":[],"parent_id":49806963,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"It's actually just a matter of how much do you want to pay for the task. Obviously if the task it's hard, then also a matter of infinity.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:37:42.000Z","created_at_i":1790105862,"id":49806963,"options":[],"parent_id":49805509,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"I cannot wait to be past this \u201chere\u2019s a matrix with 40 model options\u201d phase of AI. No \u201cnormal\u201d users can tell which choice is optimal for which task.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"GolfPopper","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:42:27.000Z","created_at_i":1790106147,"id":49807024,"options":[],"parent_id":49805509,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Roflmao!!!
OpenAI is promising "the Sun, the Moon, and the Stars". The spirit of P.T. Barnum is doubtless looking on with jaw dropped at what is beyond doubt one of the greatest demonstrations of chutzpah, by some of the greatest hucksters, in the history of the human race.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"blurbleblurble","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:52:07.000Z","created_at_i":1790106727,"id":49807153,"options":[],"parent_id":49805509,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Too bad I squandered all my weekly usage on astra medium in one relatively mild day.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"dhdsingfgg","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:56:38.000Z","created_at_i":1790106998,"id":49807220,"options":[],"parent_id":49805509,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"this is epic given my monthly token cost is going to be down atleast 50% and I dont have to do anything except change it to gpt-6-luna.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"sharktheone","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T19:59:21.000Z","created_at_i":1790107161,"id":49807255,"options":[],"parent_id":49805509,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"hmm, it somehow continued the trend of being basically the same score on https://artificialanalysis.ai/ as the 5.6 variants.
I kind of hated Astra for it's poor instruction following and stopping all the time plus bad code quality. It somehow feels a bit like some of the popular open models but with a lot more knowledge or peek capability. But it doesn't reach peek that often","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"reenorap","children":[{"author":"ecshafer","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T20:12:49.000Z","created_at_i":1790107969,"id":49807423,"options":[],"parent_id":49807354,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"price discrimination. They want to capture low and high cost agent requests, and different workflows.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T20:06:56.000Z","created_at_i":1790107616,"id":49807354,"options":[],"parent_id":49805509,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Why do they bother creating effort to market all these different models.
All I want to know is how old is the model and how much does it cost. I can figure out which one I want to use based on that, assuming that newer models are always better.
Trying to convince us there is a difference between GPT-6-Sol and GPT-5.6-Terra or whatnot is ludicrous to the point of being insulting, especially when new models come out every week.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"flyinglizard","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T20:07:02.000Z","created_at_i":1790107622,"id":49807355,"options":[],"parent_id":49805509,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"This is all just running in circles. The models are not obviously better. The pricing fluctuates or offset by some other less-obvious metrics (availability/speed/tokens per task/dumbing down). Everyone reports different outcomes in their usage because it's all so context and user dependent. Sometimes models do some things better but become so annoying and obtuse in their other doings that it's just not worth it (like Opus with the insane code comments and Astra with its over-the-top, everything-is-a-sales-pitch style). It feels like the AI gods just turn the knobs on things like compute to get the results they want to align with the IPO to make headlines.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"brap","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T20:13:46.000Z","created_at_i":1790108026,"id":49807435,"options":[],"parent_id":49805509,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Am I the only one who feels icky about how these 2 companies always try to one-up each other on release day? It\u2019s fair and all but just feels gross.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"jdprgm","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T20:22:41.000Z","created_at_i":1790108561,"id":49807535,"options":[],"parent_id":49805509,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"I wish there was more transparency on the plus plans usage limits showing actual token usage and prices per model that eats away at remaining usage.
Does anyone know how exactly these price differences for example between sol6 and sol5.6 translate to codex percentages? In theory it seems like for "high" on both it should result in ~3x more usage. If that is actually the case it would be huge! But all we see is % left and % changes while using and we really have no idea when or how those numbers are being calculated or when they change. So there is a 50% price reduction on API but who knows how the hell that translates to whatever price calculation is used on codex.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"mrcwinn","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T20:23:14.000Z","created_at_i":1790108594,"id":49807539,"options":[],"parent_id":49805509,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"GPT-6 has been fantastic to use. I see Opus 5.5 today but honestly it's been such a rough year with Anthropic, and OpenAI's models are so far ahead, it's tough to consider moving back. I also think OpenAI's desktop app is significantly more polished than Claude CoWork.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"2001zhaozhao","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T20:24:03.000Z","created_at_i":1790108643,"id":49807554,"options":[],"parent_id":49805509,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"This Luna release might potentially be a big deal for computer use automation at scale","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"jiehong","children":[],"created_at":"2026-09-22T20:26:25.000Z","created_at_i":1790108785,"id":49807577,"options":[],"parent_id":49805509,"points":null,"story_id":49805509,"text":"Not much about token efficiency ("a bit shorter") or token/s.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-09-22T18:00:34.000Z","created_at_i":1790100034,"id":49805509,"options":[],"parent_id":null,"points":757,"story_id":49805509,"text":null,"title":"GPT-6 Sol and Luna","type":"story","url":"https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-6-sol-and-luna/"}
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