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One prompt to GPT-6 Astra can cost $10. Here's exactly when the 1M context is worth it — and when it's a trap.
Community description: GPT-6 Astra ships a 1.1M-token context window at $10 per million input tokens. Fill it and a single call costs $10 before you read a word of output. Here's the napkin math on when a giant context earns its price and when RAG quietly wins.
Dev.to | Sep 28, 2026 | Rudratosh Shastri
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GPT-6 Astra landed on September 3 with a headline spec everyone repeated: 1. 1 million tokens of context. So filling that window costs $10 per call, before Astra generates a single token of answer. "Context rot. " Beyond a few hundred K tokens, more context often lowers answer quality — the model gets distracted by the irrelevant 95%.
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