Update: GPT-6 Astra Pro adds a pro-reasoning dial on OpenRouter

Same weights as Astra, one flag flipped: reasoning.mode=pro. Price holds at $10/$50 per M — the dial just burns more thinking tokens on your hardest jobs.

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  • Same model, a reasoning dial

    GPT-6 Astra Pro isn't new weights — it's GPT-6 Astra served with reasoning.mode set to pro. Flip it on for the problems base Astra fumbles, leave it off for everything else, and you're running the identical model underneath.

  • Same price, higher task cost

    Input is $10/M and output $50/M — identical to base Astra. Pro doesn't raise the sticker; it spends more reasoning tokens per answer, so budget by the task, not the token, and expect the hard problems to cost more to finish.

  • 1M context, 128K output intact

    Pro inherits Astra's 1.05M-token context window and 128K max output. Whole-repo reviews and giant transcripts work exactly as before — the dial changes how hard the model thinks, not how much it can read or write.

  • Pick your provider carefully

    OpenRouter fans Astra Pro across multiple hosts, with latency from 2 to 29 seconds and throughput of 19 to 97 tokens/sec. Pro reasoning is slower by design, so route latency-sensitive calls to base Astra or a fast host and save Pro for jobs that can wait.