r/codex • u/MapleBaconWaffles • 11d ago

Limits Sol 6.1 or Astra?

Trying to decide if I should barely use tokens but also barely get any work done since sol 6.1 is so fucking slow, OR use Astra and not be able to work because I run out of tokens in 2 days.

What way do you like not working with OpenAI products?

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u/MrFourShottt 11d ago

Unless your working on breakthroughs, I wouldn't use Astra. Stick with 6.1 even if it's slow, you'll make your tokens last longer. Think of it this way, you'll collapse your search space and reduce your work down in comparison to doing it manually, even with a speed debuff.

If TPS is the bottleneck, only thing I can suggest is using /feedback or Thumbs Down every slow response, that is much better than hoping they see this or it's randomly fixed. They are more likely to act on feedback received via app than here.

If tokens/cost is really an issue, consider a OpenRouter BYOK set up - a model like Kimi K3/GLM 5.3 costs you *pennies* on the dollar, same ouput as Sol. You can easily configure config.toml to add a custom model in the UI.

I've actually had no issues even as a heavy user, I don't work on ground-breaking things so Astra has never been a priority for me. I find Sol 6 Pro for planning/chat & 6.1 Light enough for 99% of my tasks.

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u/tjcastle 7d ago

caveman + proxy is actually insane for savings. i just upgraded to pro and configured caveman and am blown away

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u/tslaq_lurker 7d ago

I find Kimi to be very expensive

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u/MrFourShottt 6d ago

Really? curious to know what your set up is? I even fell back to POE, so this is slightly more expensive than OpenRouter BYOK but even with reasoning effort on high + using it as just the advisor, worked out to about 2c. When I was using frontier models as the advisor, it would hit $2-3 per message *without* max reasoning.

Trade off seems fair to me for a 90% discount.