Astra
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What is Astra?
OpenAI's frontier GPT tier, intended for the most demanding coding, analysis, and multi-step reasoning work in the GPT ladder.
Astra is the frontier-capability GPT tier in Orbit's model registry. It sits above Sol for the work that benefits from the deepest GPT capability in the current model-tier ladder.
How it relates to Orbit
Orbit's Model Tiers can route a tier to Astra. See Complexity Tiers & Routing for details.
When you would use it
Use Astra when a task needs the frontier GPT tier and the added deliberation is worth the extra time and token use.
Common operations
- Tackling difficult architecture, debugging, and reasoning tasks.
- Serving as the highest-capability GPT choice for demanding agent work.