How to pick GPT-6Astra reasoning levels: a $200 Pro user's guide to not burning your quota
数字生命卡兹克 · wechat · 2026-09-09
After burning through two $200 Pro quotas in days, the author breaks down how GPT-6Astra's reasoning effort levels actually differ and how to pick them.
- The levels are thinking budget on the same model, not different models — higher means more thinking, verification, tool calls, and quota burn.
- Ultra is a different beast: it spins up parallel sub-tasks and aggregates, like funding a special task force.
- Plus users: use web ChatGPT for chat (separate quota), "medium" for daily Codex work, "high" for harder tasks.
- Pro users: keep "high" as default; for complex work run "max" + plan mode first, then drop to "high" to execute — the most token-efficient loop; "ultra-high" is awkwardly positioned; Ultra is only for burning leftover quota before reset.
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