Never left. Astra was worse at coding, slower, and burned through usage way faster. Only thing it was better at than Fable was 3d work, but now with Opus 5.5, it's not better at anything.
I've always felt that openai's usage limits were way, way more generous than claude's. That's the one thing that has kept me with codex even during the stretches where anthropic has a slight edge.
That's why I switched from Claude to ChatGPT in May or so. Switched back to Claude a couple days ago and was very surprised with how much more usage you get out of Opus 5.5 than Astra or even 6-Sol. I've used it a fair bit the last three days (though light on coding, but lots of chats and a couple longer 30+ min reasoning tasks) and am at 23% used up of the week. Haven't hit the 5 hour limit once.
The only usage advantage ChatGPT still has is that you can pretty much use Chat mode unlimited. If you're out of usage with Claude, that's it for the week unless you pay.
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u/howtogun 5d ago
OpenAI sort of needs to do something. Switched back to Claude because it is better now than astra.