Now All OpenAI’s Paid Users Have Access to GPT-6 Astra
September 8, 2026

IBL News | New York
A day after announcing its new model, OpenAI rolled out GPT-6 Astra to Business and Pro customers on the $100/month or $200/month plans, and to Plus users on the $20/month subscription.
Additionally, GPT-6 Astra is “the best model for software engineering to date,” OpenAI said.
In terms of Codex, Astra can keep notes across context windows, preserving accumulated details without repeatedly compressing them into a single summary.
Earlier context windows remain searchable, so Astra can find requirements or test results from previous messages and tool outputs—even if that information wasn’t captured in its notes.
Users can enable this experimental feature in their Codex, and it will become the default for Astra in the coming weeks.
In July, Codex effectively became the new ChatGPT desktop app, combining Chat, Work, and Codex, while the previous native client was renamed ChatGPT Classic.
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