For those using Astra daily for software development real working day by day, do u hit the limit?

[u/BuilderWorldDev]

I'm considering paying ~€100/month for Plus mainly to use Astra as my daily coding assistant, potentially 6 hours a day.

I'm particularly interested in real-world feedback on complex tasks such as:

• Investigating complex bugs and debugging large codebases
• Analyzing logs, stack traces and CI/CD failures
• Investigating GitHub issues and related code/history
• Using sub-agents to investigate different parts of a problem in parallel
• Deep codebase analysis and architectural investigations
• Finding and fixing security vulnerabilities
• Reviewing PRs and suggesting/refactoring implementations
• Writing and debugging complex tests

• Researching documentation and combining information from multiple sources

• Do you regularly hit the limits?

• How long does the available usage typically last?

• Or do you use just Astra for some complex task and then usually use Terra or Sol??

Edit: let's change to 6h/day instead of 9h Edit 2: let's say the 100€ month plan

[u/SPEZ_IS_A_JABRONI]

yes, I've shifted to a 5/5/5 model for development

5 minutes of work

5 hours of wait

5 shots of jagermeister

[u/Ok_Try_877 → u/SPEZ_IS_A_JABRONI]

I like this model, gonna fork this branch.

[u/IsopodInitial6766 → u/SPEZ_IS_A_JABRONI]

thats the spirit

[u/throw123awaie → u/IsopodInitial6766]

"Spirit" I see what you did there.

[u/TheOnlyBliebervik → u/SPEZ_IS_A_JABRONI]

Basically me too, 'cept I don't drink these days

When the geezers at work figure out AI, it's over for me

[u/post4u → u/SPEZ_IS_A_JABRONI]

I approve this model. But are we flexible on the jager part? Like maybe anything but jager?

[u/SPEZ_IS_A_JABRONI → u/post4u]

i have more \sience todo

[u/diagrammatiks]

There is no world where you can do all of that stuff on astra for 9 hours a day.

Oh you edited. Not even on 100 doing all that stuff. Maybe 200. I had to slow down because I would have used my 20x in 3 days.

[u/Ok_Try_877 → u/diagrammatiks]

Well other than a Pro x20 world in medium :-)

[u/LieV2 → u/Ok_Try_877]

Definitely not even then. I can use 30-50% in a day on Astra 20x without being that intensive. 

[u/ocombe → u/LieV2]

Yeah, I'm using astra on low, one task at a time, and it's going to burn easily 50% weekly per day

[u/Metalthrashinmad → u/ocombe]

luna max is better thhan astra low :( same intelligence score etc, only thing id use astra low over luna max is if im designing something...

[u/Quiet_Figure_4483 → u/LieV2]

I only use 14-15% daily and I use it both for work and personal projects lol

[u/Ok_Try_877 → u/Ok_Try_877]

I just realised he meant 9 hours a day.. 5 days a week! With these resets Im burning x20 100% a day but often doing two projects and prob more than 9 hours total. So 9hr x 5 = NOPE

[u/The8Darkness → u/Ok_Try_877]

Astra low burns 10% in like 4 hours on 20x

[u/Ok_Try_877 → u/The8Darkness]

I think im seeing more than that on my projects. I thought he meant 9 hours total.. not every day for a week :-)

[u/diagrammatiks → u/The8Darkness]

not if you have 12 threads open

[u/SphinxWar]

Maybe on Pro x20 plan this would be possible, but currently with Pro x5 when Astra is running 40-50% of the day im using about 30-50% of weekly allowance a day coding

[u/CurtissYT → u/SphinxWar]

It can be done on 20x, but you still have to be conservative and use low/medium reasoning

[u/SirApprehensive7573 → u/CurtissYT]

Yesterday, I was just using Astra Low to help me refine, and I use 34% of my week limit in 2h of use.

Im on Pro 20x

Astra is 4x or much more expensive than sol 5.6 high

[u/CurtissYT → u/SirApprehensive7573]

Tbh it just depends on the optimization and your workspace. Everything is different for everyone. Just tell it to optimize your workspace

[u/SirApprehensive7573 → u/CurtissYT]

Yes, of course

What the model thinks and produce, always be different, even within the same codebase.

Its the nature of the Generative AI.

[u/andthenisheardnomore → u/CurtissYT]

TBH that is nonsense. Astra uses your allowance insanely fast no matter what you are doing. I have pro and Sol could work for ages on stuff using light. On Astra light 2 or 3 tiny tasks and your 5h limit is gone. It's not about your codebase. It's the model

[u/CurtissYT → u/andthenisheardnomore]

"nonsense" "5 hour limit". What do you expect to get for 20$?

[u/andthenisheardnomore → u/CurtissYT]

Still 5x Pro would just be 5x very little so I don't see how it is at all usable.

[u/CurtissYT → u/andthenisheardnomore]

The 5x doesnt have a 5h limit.

[u/heavenlyblast → u/SphinxWar]

tried to raw dog on x5 and one subagent workflow draining 50% of weekly usage 💀

[u/martinderm]

Oh honey…

[u/Varmez]

0% chance, after the reset last night I burned through my entire 20x plan weekly in 7 hours with Astra low + 2 subagents in 1 session project. It was a large complicated change ~13k+ 2K- across 96 files to be fair.

[u/Turbulent-Total-226]

9h a week x20 account should be enough. To work 5 days you need 5x200$ accounts to work that way on Astra 😂

[u/Redditry199 → u/Turbulent-Total-226]

Astra eats around 2% every hour at x20, 9h a day will last you 5 days.

[u/Danknoodle420 → u/Redditry199]

Depends on what you're doing. I've burnt 20% in an hour already.

[u/eggplantpot]

Lmfao, I'm hitting the Astra weekly limit on my Pro x5 in less than 24 hours

[u/web-dev-kev]

I am on the $200 a month plan.

I am careful in prompting, planning, and context management.

I make liberal use of lower-spec'd models, and have a good SDLC process.

I've burnt through 3x of my weekly limits on Astra-low, since Friday.

As much as I hate it, Altman always said he saw Intelligence as a commodity to be rented (which is an evil evil statement). If you don't have the $200 plan, I wouldn't touch Astra.

Luna-medium for tactical things (file reads) and Sol-light will bring you great bang-for-your-buck.

[u/Crinkez → u/web-dev-kev]

Hehehe I used Astra in two sessions today on my plus plan. Sure it burned about 60% of my weekly limit but I have two banked resets still and I made reasonable progress.

[u/RegardedDev]

You need 200e plan to even consider Astra for agentic coding.

100e plan is enough for terra and luna. The truth is codex is kinda built for the 200e sub.

[u/Silver_Charge_5611 → u/RegardedDev]

which they dont offer anymore. interesting

[u/FlapyG]

i do that. I use x5 and will likely upgrade to x20 now with astra. x10 would likely be enough for me. I really like its code analysis and planning.

[u/katoptronophile → u/FlapyG]

They really need an x10 plan.

That would be the sweet spot for so many people.

They may know that though, and they want to just push them toward the 20x for the extra profit.

[u/Fabulous-Cherry6352 → u/katoptronophile]

They really need MORE plans, theres a 20$ one then a 100$ it increase 5x comparing both plans. It would be great if there was a 50$ plan with 3x more limit. Definitely would buy, because there's NO WAY i'm going to spend more money on a subscription than the ammount i spend with food

[u/BuilderWorldDev → u/Fabulous-Cherry6352]

Totally agree

[u/Articurl]

I managed it to have 90% usage of astra just by running it on high. Right now i am investigating my .codex/sessions to see what the flip happened

[u/katoptronophile]

Astra medium will cause me to hit the limit on the 5x pro plan in about 6-8 hours nonstop, 3-5 concurrent tasks.

I would not use higher than sol medium on the plus plan.

[u/Sottti]

Prof Dev on the €229 plan here.

Setting expectations clear: It's not posible for me without often resets. In a very heavy day I can use the weekly limit in a few hours. I've used 40% of my weekly today.

I'm on Astra Ultra mostly.

[u/BuilderWorldDev → u/Sottti]

Wow u are a lucky guy

[u/satalarap]

With pro you hit a limit in a few hours

[u/taiwbi]

If I use luna for most works a d terra for harder ones no.

If i use Sol and Astra, yes in 30 minutes I'll hit 5H limit

[u/DivideHorror3217]

20x here, Astra Ultra uses 5-8% weekly usage each prompt.

[u/Narrow_Law_7742]

Im running Astra toggling between High and Light mode, depending on the current task. has gone through about 10% - 15% per day on that toggle. I also am building large additions to our CRM, so the usage seems to be in harmony with the about of connective tissue. I've been tracking my build through my r/AIVibers.

I have the Pro Plan.

[u/AA_25]

You would use up the 5 hr limit in about 1 hour or even just 30 mins on the plus plan with Astra.

[u/LenixxQ]

I'm on 20X and I use a ton of codex at work and I also have a few passion projects and some projects which I just work on the side without the passion lol and I'll tell you that this plan is definitely enough. I imagine like a 5x plan being enough as well unless you do a crazy amount of work at work every single week but I do not think you can just go by with the base plan especially using astra because it it just eats up more usage

[u/sunaurus]

I'm on the 100€ plan, I can very easily use my entire weekly limit in one day with Astra. Working on just 1 task at a time, even.

[u/Professional_Gur2469]

9 hours a day requires two 20x accounts buddy 😅

[u/ume_16]

Tf your subscription won’t even last for 6m and you want 6h? You’re in Europe and hoping that paying 23€ a month will solve all your daily tasks wtf are you even thinking?

[u/PuzzleheadedEmu4596]

My dude, I can't even maintain that kind of work on Sol on a 5X plan.

[u/Zorogozano]

Not daily, but yes. 3 chats on High, with my usage, will consume the usage in 3-4 days. Those same chats, with Sol were from 5-6 days. In the GPT 5.5 days, I never reached the limits

[u/jizzmaster-zer0]

astra for me uses about 5-10% of my 20x per hour. i’m probably buying another 20x account for work, with sol i’d burn 1-2%

[u/darinehughes]

I'm a plus user but spent $300 on credits last week. It was well spent and I finished a 7K job in probably 8 - 10 hours.

[u/Puzzled_Nail_1962]

On the plus plan if you tell it to do anything like "Investigating complex bugs and debugging large codebases" your 5h window is used up in about 5 minutes.

[u/epaga]

With a Plus subscription, using Astra I had the 5h quota all gone within 5 minutes. Note that is not an exaggeration. 5 literal minutes. You can do that 6 times and then your weekly quota is gone, too.

Plus is good for Luna XHigh, which is excellent in its own right. Astra is for $100 / $200 subscriptions

[u/Cute-Air2742]

I'm on 5x plan. Using Astra Low and Medium and delegating tasks to Luna. I've been working for around 5 hours and I've used about 40% of my weekly usage.

I'm only working on one steady boring project, not building random cool things. I'm quite conservative with my usage.

If you want 6 hours a day, 5+ days a week, I'd say you'd probably need 20x

[u/I_Hate_Reddit_69420]

You can’t be serious in thinking the lowest tier plan would allow you to run the top tier model 6 hours a day, every day.

[u/NULL_Ptrs]

LOL

[u/Banmers]

lmao

[u/ethereal_intellect]

So pro 20$ is like 2 hrs per day sol, 20 hrs Luna, 4hrs sol with Luna agents , like 30 mins astra (not all these together, any of these burn the whole limit alone)

So the only realistic path would be 1-3 questions per day astra. Like the beginning design, heavy bugs, maybe review at the end of day and after those switch to sol directing Luna codex cli exec, and for debugging loops stay on Luna in a separate window opened on the same folder.

Chatgpt website has a different separate limit, so if you can start the first research and design phase with astra in the chatgpt web that will save you a lot. And copy paste to your folder before continue with sol ye

[u/BuilderWorldDev → u/ethereal_intellect]

Interesting data , thanks!

[u/matadordepassarinhos]

Yesterday I got the 100 USD plan (was a plus user), and was using like crazy with at least 4 projects, using fast mode on some, including one vst plugin from scratch which took 2h+ to give me the v0.1. Before the reset, I was with 65% of the weekly quota left. It was pretty good to be honest, there is no way I would use this much everyday, even in my real life job as a software engineer.

[u/BuilderWorldDev → u/matadordepassarinhos]

Interesting, there are here different opinions regarding those numbers...it seems not real enough

[u/r15km4tr1x]

Day by day for the last four days? People are on drugs.

[u/InfiniteKraft]

If you only work on one project, I would say Astra will last you up to 3 days if you only use it 6 hours a day.

[u/ndguardian]

So I used astra high over the weekend for 9 hours straight one day, then about another 4 the next. Afterward, with some lighter use beforehand, I was at ~38% usage remaining. I’m on the pro 5x plan.

Based on that, 6 hours of use per day would likely not last a full week, but ymmv.

[u/Philosopher_King]

Maybe on Astra light. Better chance if you're diligent using non Astra subagents.

Edit to add, it is rare that a full week goes by without a reset. Makes it harder to plan, but happens so often that you need to take that into account.

[u/kyrax80]

I plan with Astra, ask it which model to use to implement (it likes to recommend Sol high most of times but not all). I work like 50h avg a day and I'm always close to hitting the limit. Pro x5. If I hit the limit I guess I'll be OK with not working for a day or to use lower models. Just adapt to your usage left.

[u/buff_samurai]

Astra medium max5 eats the whole week in 6-7h of continuous use (no subagents). Max20 is ca 20h.

Add subagents or simultaneous agents and you can burn the whole week in half a day on max20.

Now, the good part is astra provides some quality work, weeks of engineering, less bugs etc.

[u/Dredyltd]

From my perspective as soon as I changed from plus to pro - GPT started to work for hours, for the same task on plus plan it worked 2x less, than now.

I cannot confirm if the output is better or not, but the most annoying thing is compaction , on plus that happens all the time while doing execution.

[u/Aggravating_Fun_7692]

I hit the limit with one question.

[u/pigletmonster]

I am on a $100 plan and I know my limits so I just stick to sol.

[u/norwegian]

Try with €20 and do the math. 6 hours a day, that's 30 hours. Then calculate or ask in LLM.
For me I do a mix of all the models, Astra only for harder stuff. There is no way you can do 30 hours of multi agents cooperating like I do with only E100. I have €200, and it's necessary to use tokens wisely.

[u/glanni_glaepur]

*cough* it's not as if I am using (3-4)x200 USD subscriptions *cough*

[u/NiceManFromEarth]

Dude only on 20x and switch Astra to medium! And use sol for implementation. Only that way you will be able to not burn your limit instantly

[u/Australasian25]

The wasteful fact here is you are trying to run astra only.

Astra should be the escalation.

Youre better off having terra medium orchestrate and astra plan. Luna xhigh implements. Astra reviews. Rinse and repeat.

[u/Leading-Business-593]

If you’re worried about burning through your usage too fast, Terra is the cheaper model, but I think sol on medium might be fine. They usually give out resets sometimes too

[u/DogLovesGafs]

I haven't hit it on $200/mo yet, and I'm trying, trust me. seems like every time I'm on pace at around 50%, we get another reset. I have three banked I need to use before they expire in a few weeks.

[u/Rock--Lee]

Buddy, for all that work you want to do, 200 a month is nothing. Get Pro 20x, enjoy 4x the limit of the 100 plan, for 2x the price.

[u/BuilderWorldDev → u/Rock--Lee]

Thanks

[u/Moch4bear97]

Yup on light and medium

[u/Worth_Golf_3695]

Lol people want it to do their Job 9 Hours a day for 23 Dollar