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Solar Pro 4: Upstage's Agentic API for Finishable Work

Upstage Solar Pro 4 (solar-pro4): 512K/128K agentic API, $0.30/$0.06 cached/$1.20 per 1M, EN/KO/JA, 90% off through Sep 10, 2026 23:59 UTC. Vendor scores vs Solar Open 2; LLM Stats verification pending.

Sebastian Crossa
Sebastian Crossa
Co-Founder @ LLM Stats
·2 min read
Solar Pro 4: Upstage's Agentic API for Finishable Work

At a Glance

  • Org: Upstage
  • ID: solar-pro4 (OpenAI-compatible at https://api.upstage.ai/v1)
  • Type: Closed API (dedicated / on-prem available via sales)
  • Context / out: 512K / 128K
  • Languages: EN, KO, JA (in and out)
  • Reasoning: On by default; effort high vs low for latency
  • Also on: SolarChat, OpenRouter, Hermes Agent, Upstage Studio

Pricing

ItemPer 1M tokens
Input$0.30
Cached input$0.06
Output$1.20

Promo: 90% off through Sep 10, 2026 23:59 UTC (Console + OpenRouter). Re-check before budgeting past that date.

Selected vendor scores (vs Solar Open 2)

BenchmarkSolar Pro 4Solar Open 2Note
Terminal-Bench v2.157.043.2Vendor table
τ³-Banking23.018.1Vendor table
AA-LCR71.062.7Bare bench name; vendor-cited
GDPval-AA v238.831.4Bare bench name; vendor-cited
GPQA Diamond89.085.6Vendor table
BrowseComp*49.237.3* in-house
SWE-Bench Verified (OpenHands)*70.669.2* in-house

Asterisked rows = Upstage in-house harness under the same internal environment. Do not treat as LLM Stats verified.

What's New

  1. Positioned for longer commercial agent workloads vs Solar Open 2 (self-host general model).
  2. Evidence-first stance in demos: grounded / not-in-document / mismatch style answers.
  3. Agent Cookbook + work-agent recipes (Excel / Word / slides) alongside the API.

Caveats

  • Closed weights; compare to Solar Open 2 if you need self-host.
  • Several headline agent scores are third-party or in-house; label before promoting.
  • Promo pricing expires Sep 10, 2026 23:59 UTC.

Sources

Questions

Frequently Asked Questions

  • Upstage's Solar Pro 4 (solar-pro4) is a proprietary agentic API aimed at multi-document, multi-tool jobs that need to finish. It is a closed API (dedicated / on-prem via sales), OpenAI-compatible at https://api.upstage.ai/v1, and also available on SolarChat, OpenRouter, Hermes Agent, and Upstage Studio.
  • 512K context and 128K max output. Reasoning is on by default, with an effort dial (high vs low) for latency.
  • List price: $0.30 input / $0.06 cached input / $1.20 output per 1M tokens. Launch promo: 90% off on Upstage Console and OpenRouter through Sep 10, 2026 23:59 UTC. Re-check before budgeting past that date.
  • English, Korean, and Japanese (in and out).

  • No. Selected scores are from the vendor table vs Solar Open 2. Asterisked rows (BrowseComp*, SWE-Bench Verified OpenHands*) use Upstage's in-house harness. Independent LLM Stats verification is pending.

  • No. Weights are closed. Compare to Solar Open 2 if you need self-host.

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