Debate Continues: Astra Matches Opus 5.5 With Roughly 5x Fewer Reasoning Tokens
VraserX · x · 2026-10-06
VraserX doubles down: Opus 5.5 Max scores 58 vs Astra's 53 but uses roughly 5x the reasoning tokens; at comparable budgets the advantage collapses. Astra still leads on FrontierMath, EyeBench, AutomationBench, and Terminal-Bench Science. "More compute leasing to slightly higher scores isn't proof of a smarter model" — and Claude Code usage says nothing about model intelligence.
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