Model comparison

Claude Opus 5 vs Solar Pro4

Claude Opus 5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 67.8 to 42.1 on the Noometry Index. Solar Pro4 costs 19× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Opus 5's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 5 Anthropic

67.8

Rank #4 Confirmed

Solar Pro4 Upstage

42.1

Rank #121 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 5 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 5 leads 77.2 to 28.5.
  • Solar Pro4 is cheaper at $0.30 / $1.20 per million input/output tokens, against $5 / $25 for Claude Opus 5.
  • Claude Opus 5 accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 524K.

Side by side

Claude Opus 5 and Solar Pro4 specifications
Claude Opus 5Solar Pro4
ProviderAnthropicUpstage
Noometry Index67.842.1
Released2026-07-242026-08-06
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1M524K
Max output128K131K
Input $ / M tokens$5$0.30
Output $ / M tokens$25$1.20
Results tracked5718

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Opus 5: 67.5 (#5), Solar Pro4: 40.1 (#149)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Solar Pro4
LMArena WebDev16911371
LMArena Coding15341437
DeepSWE73.6%—
FrontierCode53.4%—
CursorBench46.6%—
FrontierSWE52%—
SciCode56.4%—
WeirdML91.8%—
ALE-Bench2,165—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 5: 55.6 (#1), Solar Pro4: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Solar Pro4
APEX-Agents65.8%—
OSWorld 2.031.4%—
τ²-bench Banking48.7%—
PostTrainBench35%—
BALROG63.4%—
GBAEval79.6%—
GDP.pdf24%—
Vending-Bench 211,182—

Reasoning Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Opus 5: 77.2 (#4), Solar Pro4: 28.5 (#104)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Solar Pro4
LMArena Hard Prompts15261399
ARC-AGI-290.4%—
SimpleBench80.6%—
NYT Connections (extended)94.3%—
ARC-AGI-197.5%—
CritPt29.1%—
Chess Puzzles42%—
EBR-Bench45.7%—
Mystery Game Puzzles59%—
DTBench97.9%—
LMCA64.5%—
Bench to the Future 30.12—
Epoch Capabilities Index162.78—

Math Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Opus 5: 86.2 (#8), Solar Pro4: 38.8 (#128)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Solar Pro4
LMArena Math15311416
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)85.6%—
FrontierMath Tier 473.2%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202598.9%—
ProofBench99%—

Knowledge Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Opus 5: 66.8 (#9), Solar Pro4: 39.8 (#129)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Solar Pro4
LMArena Expert15571427
GPQA Diamond93.9%—
SimpleQA Verified59.9%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 5: 50.8 (#8), Solar Pro4: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Solar Pro4
LMArena Vision1319—
Blueprint-Bench 230.4%—
Furniture Assembly60.8%—
LMArena Document1516—

Multilingual Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Opus 5: 58.8 (#4), Solar Pro4: 48.7 (#139)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Solar Pro4
LMArena Non-English15011361
LMArena Chinese15741415
LMArena French15191397
LMArena German15241364
LMArena Japanese15161309
LMArena Korean15211382
LMArena Russian15071360
LMArena Spanish15191401

Instruction Following Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Opus 5: 79.2 (#7), Solar Pro4: 72.7 (#132)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Solar Pro4
LMArena Instruction Following15171377

Long Context Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Opus 5: 46.5 (#21), Solar Pro4: 42.1 (#130)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Solar Pro4
LMArena Longer Query15151381

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Opus 5: 79.2 (#1), Solar Pro4: 56.5 (#138)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Solar Pro4
LMArena Text15071386
LMArena Creative Writing14911316
LMArena Multi-Turn14991385
EQ-Bench Creative Writing2133—
EQ-Bench 41385—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 5 better than Solar Pro4?

Claude Opus 5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 67.8 to 42.1 on the Noometry Index. Solar Pro4 costs 19× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Opus 5's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Claude Opus 5 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 5 lists at $5 and $25.

Is Claude Opus 5 or Solar Pro4 better for coding?

Claude Opus 5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 67.5 versus 40.1 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Claude Opus 5 does, with 1M tokens against 524K.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 5 and Solar Pro4 share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 5 has 57 scored results on Noometry and Solar Pro4 has 18.

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