Is GPT-6 Astra Pro a good deal?

Whether anything in this catalogue beats GPT-6 Astra Pro on both quality and price, and what you give up if it does. A computation on the current catalogue, not an opinion.

6 undominated of 137 · Sep 19, 2026

As of Sep 19, 2026, GPT-6 Astra Pro has no independent quality score. We cannot rank it. Absence of a score is not a score of zero.

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GPT-6 Astra Pro

Balanced

3 tokens in per 1 out

LMArena EloEffective $/M · Balanced
137 rated, priced standard models. Chartreuse is the frontier. Cobalt is the model you named, when it is not on the staircase.

GPT-6 Astra Pro takes file, image, text, returns up to 128,000 tokens from a 1,050,000-token context, and is listed by 5 sellers.

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