Astra AI
Assistance with CAD workflows, manufacturer information, training and technical report drafts.
Astra requests are available to eligible signed-in accounts with sufficient credit. No automatic overage charges.
Open Astra and your usageAllowance and credit
- Cloud / Full Workflow allowance
- £5 credit / month
- After launch, included in each paid £49 monthly cloud billing period. Unused included credit does not roll over.
- Optional prepaid top-up
- £10 = £10 credit
- No automatic top-ups. Confirm every purchase through Stripe. Desktop-only ownership has no monthly AI allowance.
- When credit runs out
- AI pauses
- No overdraft or surprise bill. Your licensed CAD tools and saved projects remain available.
Published usage rate
- gpt-6-astra: £24.00 per million uncached input tokens; £2.40 per million cached input tokens; £120.00 per million output tokens. Version: astra-2026-09-08-v2.
- LPP service rates use the provider standard token prices, a fixed planning conversion of GBP 0.80 per USD, and a 3x service multiplier. This is a published service rate, not a live currency conversion. Charges round up to one millionth of a pound.
- Every request displays a maximum reservation for you to approve. Only measured usage is settled; unused reserved credit is released. Changing the content or rate requires a new quote. Provider cache-write overhead, if any, is absorbed by LPP and does not add a customer surcharge.
- Your account shows included and purchased balances and the last 50 requests with date, model, token counts, status and charge. Responses are private to your signed-in account. Credit never transfers between members.
- Credit is an LPP service balance, not money transferred to OpenAI. Your personal ChatGPT subscription and the server's Codex login are not shared with members.
Workflow assistance
CAD and crane workflows
Explain modelling operations and help organise component information without changing a drawing until you approve it.
Documents and reports
Summarise selected manufacturer documents with source references and draft report text from the project data you choose.
Practical learning
Explain configuration steps, prepare revision notes and help review training exercises.
Engineering responsibility
AI output is a draft for competent review. It cannot certify a lift, invent missing load-chart values, approve ground conditions or replace manufacturer instructions. Before sending documents, you must be told what is sent to the AI provider and confirm that you have permission to share it.
Data and control
Only your reviewed question and reference text are submitted to OpenAI. Model files, private conversations and drawings are not attached automatically. LPP retains the draft response and usage record for your history; the request is sent with OpenAI response storage disabled. Provider security and abuse-monitoring retention may still apply. There is no automatic CAD editing, script execution, payment or certification. Refunded or disputed credit is removed and may pause further AI use pending account review.
Reference pricing: OpenAI API pricing. Hosted payments: Stripe verified fulfilment.