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Solar Mini4

Solar Mini4 is an Upstage proprietary reasoning model. It is not yet ranked: 4 independent results so far, and the index needs at least five across two categories. At $0.175 per million tokens blended it is among the cheapest fifth of ranked models. Output speed of 74 tokens per second puts it slower than most, with a first answer in 28.8 s.

Blended price
$0.175/M
$0.100 in · $0.400 out
Output speed
74 tok/s
measured by Artificial Analysis
First answer
29 s
first token 2.24 s
Context
1.0M
Full answer
36 s
median, reasoning included
Cost per run
$0.366
one full Intelligence Index run
Released
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date not published by our sources
How it scores by categoryDashed line = average model (50). One step of 15 = one standard deviation.
  1. Reasoning44
  2. Knowledge57
  3. Long context67
  4. Composite57

Benchmark results

One column per reasoning effort. Rank is among every configuration of every model on that benchmark. Hover a score for the run it came from.

Reasoning

Benchmarknot statedSourceTrend
Humanity's Last Exam (AA)not in index25.8%#169Artificial Analysis
CritPt1.4%#197Artificial Analysis

Coding

Benchmarknot statedSourceTrend
SciCode (AA)not in index47.6%#121Artificial Analysis
Terminal-Bench 4.0 (AA)not in index1.0%#119Artificial Analysis

Agents & tools

Benchmarknot statedSourceTrend
GDPval-AA v2.1not in index29.5%#137Artificial Analysis

Knowledge

Long context

Benchmarknot statedSourceTrend
AA-LCR83.3%#19Artificial Analysis

Composite

Benchmarknot statedSourceTrend
AA Intelligence Index v4.3.224.1#171Artificial Analysis

Where to run it

Every provider serving this model through OpenRouter, with throughput and first-token latency measured on live traffic over the last 30 minutes and each provider’s own price. Purple marks the best in each column.

ProviderSpeedFirst tokenInput $/MOutput $/MContextQuantisation
Upstage13 tok/s1.17 s$0.050$0.200524k–
Upstage13 tok/s1.18 s$0.050$0.200524k–

What a task costs

Estimates from list price, output speed and time to first answer for the best configuration. “With caching” assumes three-quarters of the input is served from the prompt cache. Reasoning tokens are not modelled.

WorkloadTokens in / outCostWith cachingTime
Chat reply400 / 300$0.0002–32.9 s
Summarise a 30-page report12,000 / 600$0.0014–36.9 s
Code edit6,000 / 1,500$0.0012–49.0 s
Agentic coding session60,000 / 4,000$0.0076–1.4 min
Structured extraction2,000 / 200$0.0003–31.5 s

See also

Data as of 11 Oct 2026. Compare with another model.

Cite as: BenchLeader, “Solar Mini4: benchmarks, pricing, speed and rank”, https://www.benchleader.com/models/solar-mini4, data as of 11 Oct 2026.