I'm getting crazily good results from 5.6 Luna already. My spending is about 5 times lower than before.
I also realised max is counter productive for my work sometimes. Its like overthink until paralysis.
Also switching model ends up costing more also. Cheaper to just stick to 1.
Claude 5.5 is much better than 5 so i'm using it abit more.
But my credits for both Claude and Astra, both paid subs, used up 80 pct of weekly quota by Tuesday night.
For the latest update, i notice Astra a bit more reliable if need real world data.
Example Claude can fetch outdated stock prices.
But claude deeps to make slightly better deeper analysis.
For heavy agentic work, i think Deepseek flash V4.1 still okay,
One way i think is use Deepseek flash, or normal Chatgpt 5.6 sol do heavy work. let the frontier models check and explore.