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GPT-6 Astra on OpenRouter

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Re: GPT-6 Astra on OpenRouter

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> That site build cost $24 - extremely non-trivial for a simple frontend. I would say that $24 is trivial IF that's the final design. The truth is that the cost doesn't leave much room for error or experimentation.

Wdym no room for error or experimation? Changes are even cheaper, and in my experience they are faster and way cheaper with models than with designers.

Plus you can offload a lot of work to a cheaper model

Re: GPT-6 Astra on OpenRouter

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This is one of those benchmarks I don’t mind if they benchmax because it would mean models are actually good at creating svg graphics.

Look at how well it made this Xbox controller SVG: https://www.svgviewer.dev/s/i8t1VXzQ

It's immaculate, wow

Re: GPT-6 Astra on OpenRouter

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I posted this in the other Astra thread but it's just fallen off the homepage, so... Pelicans from Astra, plus 5.6 Sol, Terra, Luna for comparison: https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2026/gpt-6-and-5.6-p... I think this is a genuinely interesting comparison grid. Astra may be more expensive, but if you have a budget of 10 cents for a Pelican Astra low gives you something SO much better than the other models. Ast…

Btw, they had 3D pelican-on-the-bicycle easter egg in one of the promo videos: https://youtu.be/bOC3DisEOfg?t=117 so I'm pretty sure that they spent some small amount of resources to train the model to produce good svg version as well. :D

The 3D version is interesting, because it's more detailed which means more things to get wrong. The mudguards are symmetrical for some reason which you would never see in real life, and there are three brake cables but no brakes!

I also think there's an extra level that I would hope an AI would nail which maybe an amateur artist would also fail at, such as thinking about what position a pelican would actually ride a bike in (maybe angling the beak down for aerodynamics etc.), but we are far away from this.

Re: GPT-6 Astra on OpenRouter

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I signed up for OpenRouter, loaded it up with $25, and after running a test prompt immediately had my account suspended. There’s no way to talk to support, emails go nowhere, and their Discord is swarmed with people who also are getting no responses to anything. I would recommend staying away from OpenRouter. No matter how good the service is, if anything does go wrong, you have no recourse and you lose every credit…

I did get a response when sending to support@openrouter.ai about a year ago (complaining about some information claims), not about my account.

Re: GPT-6 Astra on OpenRouter

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That's some crazy SVG generation: https://aibenchy.com/compare/openai-gpt-6-astra-high/google-... It took a while to test it, initially OpenRouter was giving Not Found errors for this model ID.

>AGI >Playing ping pong from the side of the table I think marketing might be getting a bit absurd at this point

For me it’s the two mouths

Re: GPT-6 Astra on OpenRouter

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$10/$50 is incredibly expensive compared to Chinese models which are cents. I think they’re really going to struggle selling these models long-term. My company is already massively cutting down on access because they’ve realised most people don’t actually produce any value using it. All the tokenmaxers have ruined it for the rest of us now that accounting have seen the costs.

My company literally mandated tokenmaxxing while all the engineers told them this was a bad idea.

Re: GPT-6 Astra on OpenRouter

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I signed up for OpenRouter, loaded it up with $25, and after running a test prompt immediately had my account suspended. There’s no way to talk to support, emails go nowhere, and their Discord is swarmed with people who also are getting no responses to anything. I would recommend staying away from OpenRouter. No matter how good the service is, if anything does go wrong, you have no recourse and you lose every credit…

They were just bought for $7B and rely on Discord?

Re: GPT-6 Astra on OpenRouter

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is one of those benchmarks I don’t mind if they benchmax because it would mean models are actually good at creating svg graphics.

Look at how well it made this Xbox controller SVG: https://www.svgviewer.dev/s/i8t1VXzQ

Do you know what reasoning level this was generated at?
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