$100/month Astra user burns weekly limit in 2.5 hours on a single thread
IntroEntre · reddit · 2026-09-09
A user on the $100/month (5x) tier complains that Astra's usage limits are effectively unusable:
- A single thread on high burned the weekly limit in 2.5 hours
- Switching to medium, routine accounting work exhausted it again in 3.5 hours
- Proportionalized, the same money gets 3-5% of the usage they'd get on fable 5, which allows multi-day, multi-thread use without limits
- Usage resets feel like a 'cheap gimmick' when limits die within 2 hours of work
- They also found no exceptional difference between 5.6 sol and Astra on top of the low quota
They ask whether they're doing something wrong or the hype is just inflated.
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