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Running GPT-6 Astra at MAX reasoning may burn less quota than Medium or Low, and ARC Prize's own numbers back it
An r/ChatGPT post (56 upvotes) claims max effort finishes tasks in fewer total tokens than medium or low, and cites the ARC Prize Astra writeup from 2026-09-03: "At max reasoning effort, Astra solves games more efficiently, requiring fewer actions and therefore lowering total cost relative to the other reasoning-effort levels." On ARC-AGI-3 with the Provider Adapter harness, Astra scored 98.6% for $17,332 against 62.7% for $26,098 on the Standard harness. The thread is not unanimous: one tester reported no reproduction and called it a quota-wasting rumor, and another argued the effect is really about task-scoping on vague prompts.
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