Solar Mini 4
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Pricing — 1 offering(s)
Input tokens
- $0.03 / 1M tokens (input)
Current
2026-09-22 → 2026-10-10
Launch promotion, window 1 of 2 (70% off): $0.03/1M input from 2026-09-22 05:00 UTC until 2026-10-11 00:00…
Launch promotion, window 1 of 2 (70% off): $0.03/1M input from 2026-09-22 05:00 UTC until 2026-10-11 00:00 UTC, per Upstage's published promotion schedule.
- $0.05 / 1M tokens (input)
Future
2026-10-11 → 2026-10-22
Launch promotion, window 2 of 2 (50% off): $0.05/1M input from 2026-10-11 00:00 UTC until 2026-10-23 00:00…
Launch promotion, window 2 of 2 (50% off): $0.05/1M input from 2026-10-11 00:00 UTC until 2026-10-23 00:00 UTC. Upstage's on-page notice gives no end date; the end comes from its published promotion schedule.
- $0.10 / 1M tokens (input) Future 2026-10-23
Output tokens
- $0.12 / 1M tokens (output)
Current
2026-09-22 → 2026-10-10
Launch promotion, window 1 of 2 (70% off): $0.12/1M output from 2026-09-22 05:00 UTC until 2026-10-11 00:00…
Launch promotion, window 1 of 2 (70% off): $0.12/1M output from 2026-09-22 05:00 UTC until 2026-10-11 00:00 UTC, per Upstage's published promotion schedule.
- $0.20 / 1M tokens (output)
Future
2026-10-11 → 2026-10-22
Launch promotion, window 2 of 2 (50% off): $0.20/1M output from 2026-10-11 00:00 UTC until 2026-10-23 00:00…
Launch promotion, window 2 of 2 (50% off): $0.20/1M output from 2026-10-11 00:00 UTC until 2026-10-23 00:00 UTC. Upstage's on-page notice gives no end date; the end comes from its published promotion schedule.
- $0.40 / 1M tokens (output)
Future
2026-10-23
List price ($0.40/1M output) from 2026-10-23, after the launch promotion ends.
Cached input tokens
- $0.003 / 1M tokens (cached input) Current 2026-09-22 → 2026-10-10
- $0.005 / 1M tokens (cached input) Future 2026-10-11 → 2026-10-22
- $0.01 / 1M tokens (cached input) Future 2026-10-23
Showing the active price and any recorded history. Full pricing history is available via the paid API — see API docs.
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See how →Capability profile
How Solar Mini 4 rates across core capability dimensions, with the task-level evidence behind each rating.
Tool calling, parallel tool calling and structured outputs are supported (Upstage docs). Upstage reports 22.3% on AutomationBench-AA and 47.2 on τ³-Banking in its launch post. Vendor-reported; no anchor agentic benchmark (BrowseComp, OSWorld) is published.
512K per Upstage (524,288 tokens on OpenRouter), up to 128K output.
Upstage docs: Korean, English and Japanese input and output, with "fluent Korean alongside strong English and Japanese". Not separately benchmarked here.
$0.10 / 1M input, $0.40 / 1M output, $0.01 cached input at list (upstage.ai/pricing); 70% off to 2026-10-10, then 50% off to 2026-10-22.
Ratings are estimated — limited independent data is available for this model.
Operator guidance
Upstage's low-cost agent model, a step below Solar Pro 4 at a third of its list price. Pick it for high-volume tool-calling and structured-output steps, especially with Korean or Japanese text. Escalate to Solar Pro 4 for harder multi-step work. At the same input price, compare with GPT-6 Luna and Step 3.5 Flash.
Use cases
- High-volume, repetitive agent steps (retrieval, classification, structured output, tool calls) where per-call cost dominates
- Korean, English or Japanese agent workloads that want a first-party Upstage API or an on-prem deployment on a single GPU
- Long-context work beyond 128K at a $0.10/1M input list price
Limitations
- Capability evidence is vendor-reported only; no independent or anchor agentic benchmark scores are recorded
- Launch promo prices run to 2026-10-22; the second window's end date comes only from Upstage's machine-readable schedule, not the visible notice
- Only 3B parameters are active per token, but all 35B weights must be loaded for self-hosting