Astra vs Opus 5.5 face off in the classic Pelican Test
fdvr-acc · reddit · 2026-09-23
A Reddit user shared a side-by-side of Astra vs Opus 5.5 taking the Pelican Test — a beloved community benchmark where models attempt to draw a pelican riding a bicycle, probing the edges of instruction following and generation.
The substance is in the attached image; it's a lighthearted head-to-head comparison between the two models.
Related event: Pelican Test Pits GPT-6 Astra Against Anthropic's New Model(2 posts)→
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