$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.
Related event: Astra burns through paid tiers: users across Plus to Pro report quota woes(13 posts)→
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