Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.6 vs Solar Pro4

Claude Opus 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.2 to 42.1 on the Noometry Index. Solar Pro4 costs 19× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Opus 4.6's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.6 Anthropic

58.2

Rank #20 Confirmed

Solar Pro4 Upstage

42.1

Rank #121 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.6 scores higher in 8 categories and Solar Pro4 in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Claude Opus 4.6 leads 57.8 to 28.5.
  • Solar Pro4 is cheaper at $0.30 / $1.20 per million input/output tokens, against $5 / $25 for Claude Opus 4.6.
  • Claude Opus 4.6 accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 524K.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.6 and Solar Pro4 specifications
Claude Opus 4.6Solar Pro4
ProviderAnthropicUpstage
Noometry Index58.242.1
Released2026-02-042026-08-06
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1M524K
Max output128K131K
Input $ / M tokens$5$0.30
Output $ / M tokens$25$1.20
Results tracked6818

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 57.2 (#20), Solar Pro4: 40.1 (#149)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Solar Pro4
LMArena WebDev15471371
LMArena Coding15361437
SWE-bench Verified78.7%—
FrontierCode26.6%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)75.6%—
SWE-bench Multilingual72%—
GSO41.2%—
WeirdML78%—
ALE-Bench996.5—
AlgoTune1.47—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 51.1 (#4), Solar Pro4: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Solar Pro4
Terminal-Bench79.8%—
APEX-Agents46.3%—
Remote Labor Index4.2%—
τ²-bench Banking27.3%—
Cybench93%—
DeepResearch Bench55.3%—
GBAEval44.1%—
LMArena Search1253—
METR Time Horizons78.9%—
Vending-Bench 28,018—

Reasoning Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 57.8 (#23), Solar Pro4: 28.5 (#104)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Solar Pro4
LMArena Hard Prompts15271399
ARC-AGI-269.2%—
SimpleBench67.6%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark83.6%—
NYT Connections (extended)92.1%—
ARC-AGI-194%—
Chess Puzzles17%—
EnigmaEval7.6%—
Thematic Generalization80.6%—
EBR-Bench12.7%—
Mystery Game Puzzles25%—
DTBench91.2%—
LMCA55.8%—
Epoch Capabilities Index155.24—
ForecastBench60—

Math Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 63.0 (#31), Solar Pro4: 38.8 (#128)

Knowledge Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 61.9 (#26), Solar Pro4: 39.8 (#129)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Solar Pro4
LMArena Expert15461427
GPQA Diamond90.5%—
Humanity's Last Exam34.4%—
SimpleQA Verified47%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate12.2%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 37.3 (#74), Solar Pro4: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Solar Pro4
LMArena Vision1316—
Furniture Assembly28.3%—
LMArena Document1507—

Multilingual Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 57.9 (#6), Solar Pro4: 48.7 (#139)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Solar Pro4
LMArena Non-English14891361
LMArena Chinese15511415
LMArena French15131397
LMArena German15021364
LMArena Japanese14841309
LMArena Korean14641382
LMArena Russian14971360
LMArena Spanish15101401

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 79.5 (#4), Solar Pro4: 72.7 (#132)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Solar Pro4
LMArena Instruction Following15231377

Long Context Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 48.1 (#13), Solar Pro4: 42.1 (#130)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Solar Pro4
LMArena Longer Query15201381
CL-bench20.7%—
CL-bench Life17%—

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 73.5 (#10), Solar Pro4: 56.5 (#138)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Solar Pro4
LMArena Text15031386
LMArena Creative Writing15051316
LMArena Multi-Turn15131385
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1809—
EQ-Bench 41223—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.6 better than Solar Pro4?

Claude Opus 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.2 to 42.1 on the Noometry Index. Solar Pro4 costs 19× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Opus 4.6's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Claude Opus 4.6 or Solar Pro4?

Solar Pro4 is cheaper. It lists at $0.30 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens; Claude Opus 4.6 lists at $5 and $25.

Is Claude Opus 4.6 or Solar Pro4 better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.6 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 57.2 versus 40.1 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Claude Opus 4.6 does, with 1M tokens against 524K.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.6 and Solar Pro4 share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.6 has 68 scored results on Noometry and Solar Pro4 has 18.

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