For budgetary reasons Astra is probably less than 10% of my LLM usage, but I have not noticed those swings. Just used it to review a bunch of architecture. Very strong performer.
One of the hallmarks of Luna is that it's slow. Also, while Luna's price/performance is outstanding (astounding, even) ...it's also sort of dumb. Astra isn't perfect but it's been consistently miles above Luna for me.
I believe you, though. Like many/most in this space, I suspect they mess with this stuff all the time behind the scenes. And they're not necessarily serving you the same thing they're serving me.
Quite honestly 6-Astra has disappointed ever since Opus 5.5. It makes assumptions without clarification, burns through weekly quotas and just feels slower and more clunky. 6.1-Sol seems to have the right balance of quality for price/usage.
I start everything with an Opus 5.5 first step and maybe have 6-Astra review on High effort.
For budgetary reasons Astra is probably less than 10% of my LLM usage, but I have not noticed those swings. Just used it to review a bunch of architecture. Very strong performer.
One of the hallmarks of Luna is that it's slow. Also, while Luna's price/performance is outstanding (astounding, even) ...it's also sort of dumb. Astra isn't perfect but it's been consistently miles above Luna for me.
I believe you, though. Like many/most in this space, I suspect they mess with this stuff all the time behind the scenes. And they're not necessarily serving you the same thing they're serving me.
Why are the OP and /booty talking about Luna?
Sol is the next biggest model and pretty good, Luna isn't even in the conversation?
Quite honestly 6-Astra has disappointed ever since Opus 5.5. It makes assumptions without clarification, burns through weekly quotas and just feels slower and more clunky. 6.1-Sol seems to have the right balance of quality for price/usage.
I start everything with an Opus 5.5 first step and maybe have 6-Astra review on High effort.