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Solar Mini 4: Benchmarks, Pricing & Context Window

Solar Mini 4 is a language model from Upstage, released in September 2026, with a 524K-token context window, and pricing from $0.100/M input, $0.010/M cached input, $0.400/M output.

Solar Mini 4 is Upstage's cost-efficient proprietary MoE language model (35B total / 3B active) for agentic use where speed and cost matter. API id solar-mini4 (version solar-mini4-260922). Text→text with English, Korean, and Japanese;

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Solar Mini 4 benchmarks

Capability tiers

Standing within each category, adjusted for leaderboard depth.

Real tasks performance

High-confidence performance for Solar Mini 4 across real-world prompt categories. Only 95% intervals at most 4 points wide are shown.

Performance by conversation depth

How Solar Mini 4 holds up as conversations get longer.

Quality Tracker

Solar Mini 4 Performance Across Datasets

Scores sourced from the model's scorecard, paper, or official blog posts

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Solar Mini 4 pricing

Providers

Solar Mini 4 starts at $0.100 per million input tokens and $0.400 per million output tokens via Upstage. Reused prompt prefixes cost $0.0100 per million cached input tokens.

ProviderInput $/MCached input $/MOutput $/MContext in / outTTFT p95 sOutput p5 c/sModalities in / out
Upstage logoUpstage
$0.100$0.0100$0.400524.3K/131.1K
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Cached input is the discounted price for prompt tokens served from a provider cache. TTFT is time to first token. Output is characters per second; p5 is the sustained floor exceeded by 95% of observed requests.

Solar Mini 4 context window

Input and output token limits for Solar Mini 4, plus how it ranks on long-context understanding.

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524Ktokens
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Solar Mini 4 latency

Solar Mini 4 time to first token, sustained output throughput, and failed-request rate from live model usage over the trailing 7 days.

Solar Mini 4 examples

Recent arena outputs from Solar Mini 4, picked from the highest-ranked matchups.

Solar Mini 4 license

Solar Mini 4 is a proprietary model available under its provider's product and API terms, has 35.0B parameters, has a knowledge cutoff of February 2026.

License
Proprietary
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35.0B
Knowledge cutoff
February 2026

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Solar Mini 4 resources

Official sources for Solar Mini 4: provider documentation, official playground, official launch post.

Solar Mini 4 vs other models

The most-compared alternatives to Solar Mini 4 are Kimi K2.5, Kimi K2-Thinking-0905, Nemotron 3 Ultra (550B A55B). Open any pair side-by-side for benchmarks, pricing, context, and latency.

Models like Solar Mini 4

Models ranked just above and below Solar Mini 4 by LLM Stats score.

 

Kimi K2.5

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Kimi K2-Thinking-0905

Score pending
 

Nemotron 3 Ultra (550B A55B)

Score pending
 

Qwen3 Max Thinking

Score pending
 

Inkling

Score pending
 

Muse Glimmer-30B

Score pending

FAQ

Common questions about Solar Mini 4.

When was Solar Mini 4 released?

Solar Mini 4 was released on September 22, 2026 by upstage. This is the official Solar Mini 4 release date tracked on LLM Stats.

How much does Solar Mini 4 cost?

Solar Mini 4 pricing starts at $0.10 per million input tokens, $0.01 per million cached input tokens, $0.40 per million output tokens via Upstage, the lowest price among tracked providers.

How big is Solar Mini 4?

Solar Mini 4 has 35 billion parameters.

Who created Solar Mini 4?

Solar Mini 4 was created by upstage.

What is the license for Solar Mini 4?

Solar Mini 4 is released under the Proprietary license.

What is the knowledge cutoff date for Solar Mini 4?

Solar Mini 4 has a knowledge cutoff of February 2026, meaning it was trained on data up to that point and may not know about events after it.

Where can I use Solar Mini 4?

Solar Mini 4 is available through 1 provider including Upstage.

Where is the Solar Mini 4 paper or technical report?

Solar Mini 4 has a paper or technical report available at https://artificialanalysis.ai/articles/korean-ai-lab-upstage-releases-solar-mini-4. Use that source for architecture, training, release and evaluation details.

What models should I compare Solar Mini 4 against?

Common Solar Mini 4 comparisons include Solar Mini 4 vs Kimi K2.5, Solar Mini 4 vs Kimi K2-Thinking-0905, Solar Mini 4 vs Nemotron 3 Ultra (550B A55B). Compare them side by side for benchmark scores, pricing, context window, latency and provider availability.