Model comparison

o3 vs Solar Pro4

o3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 47.5 to 42.1 on the Noometry Index. Solar Pro4 costs 6.7× less per token, which makes it the better buy when o3's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

o3 OpenAI

47.5

Rank #61 Confirmed

Solar Pro4 Upstage

42.1

Rank #121 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. o3 scores higher in 8 categories and Solar Pro4 in 0 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where o3 leads 54.6 to 39.8.
  • Solar Pro4 is cheaper at $0.30 / $1.20 per million input/output tokens, against $2 / $8 for o3.
  • Solar Pro4 accepts more context: 524K tokens versus 200K.

Side by side

o3 and Solar Pro4 specifications
o3Solar Pro4
ProviderOpenAIUpstage
Noometry Index47.542.1
Released2025-04-162026-08-06
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window200K524K
Max output100K131K
Input $ / M tokens$2$0.30
Output $ / M tokens$8$1.20
Results tracked6318

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Category by category

Coding o3 leads

o3: 46.8 (#64), Solar Pro4: 40.1 (#149)

Coding benchmarks
Benchmarko3Solar Pro4
LMArena Coding14081437
SWE-bench Verified62.3%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)58.4%—
Aider Polyglot81.3%—
LMArena WebDev—1371
GSO8.8%—
WeirdML52.4%—
CadEval74%—
ALE-Bench933.55—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

o3: 34.5 (#44), Solar Pro4: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
Benchmarko3Solar Pro4
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard63%—
GDPval30.8%—
DeepResearch Bench45.2%—
OSWorld23%—
LMArena Search1144—
METR Time Horizons65.4%—

Reasoning o3 leads

o3: 32.0 (#78), Solar Pro4: 28.5 (#104)

Reasoning benchmarks
Benchmarko3Solar Pro4
LMArena Hard Prompts14021399
ARC-AGI-26.5%—
SimpleBench53.1%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark67.6%—
ARC-AGI-160.8%—
CritPt1.4%—
Chess Puzzles38%—
EnigmaEval13.1%—
Mystery Game Puzzles29%—
DTBench84.8%—
LMCA39.7%—
Epoch Capabilities Index146.86—
ForecastBench62.5—

Math o3 leads

o3: 50.2 (#58), Solar Pro4: 38.8 (#128)

Math benchmarks
Benchmarko3Solar Pro4
LMArena Math14261416
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)33.3%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202584.4%—
Omni-MATH71.4%—
MATH Level 597.8%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)18.7%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)2.1%—

Knowledge o3 leads

o3: 54.6 (#52), Solar Pro4: 39.8 (#129)

Knowledge benchmarks
Benchmarko3Solar Pro4
LMArena Expert14021427
GPQA Diamond81.8%—
Humanity's Last Exam20.3%—
SimpleQA Verified49.4%—
MMLU-Pro85.9%—
Confabulations14.4%—
GPQA (HELM)75.3%—

Multimodal Not comparable

o3: 41.4 (#36), Solar Pro4: —

Multimodal benchmarks
Benchmarko3Solar Pro4
LMArena Vision1214—
GeoBench74%—
VPCT52%—

Multilingual o3 leads

o3: 51.7 (#105), Solar Pro4: 48.7 (#139)

Multilingual benchmarks
Benchmarko3Solar Pro4
LMArena Non-English14011361
LMArena Chinese14371415
LMArena French14301397
LMArena German14201364
LMArena Japanese14031309
LMArena Korean13701382
LMArena Russian14061360
LMArena Spanish13951401

Instruction Following Too close to call

o3: 72.8 (#127), Solar Pro4: 72.7 (#132)

Instruction Following benchmarks
Benchmarko3Solar Pro4
LMArena Instruction Following13681377
IFEval86.9%—

Long Context o3 leads

o3: 53.3 (#6), Solar Pro4: 42.1 (#130)

Long Context benchmarks
Benchmarko3Solar Pro4
LMArena Longer Query13721381
Fiction.LiveBench88.9%—
CL-bench17.8%—

Writing & Preference o3 leads

o3: 63.5 (#64), Solar Pro4: 56.5 (#138)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
Benchmarko3Solar Pro4
LMArena Text14101386
LMArena Creative Writing13591316
LMArena Multi-Turn14051385
Short-Story Creative Writing83.9%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1676—
WildBench86.1%—

Frequently asked questions

Is o3 better than Solar Pro4?

o3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 47.5 to 42.1 on the Noometry Index. Solar Pro4 costs 6.7× less per token, which makes it the better buy when o3's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, o3 or Solar Pro4?

Solar Pro4 is cheaper. It lists at $0.30 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens; o3 lists at $2 and $8.

Is o3 or Solar Pro4 better for coding?

o3 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 46.8 versus 40.1 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Solar Pro4 does, with 524K tokens against 200K.

How many benchmarks do o3 and Solar Pro4 share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. o3 has 63 scored results on Noometry and Solar Pro4 has 18.

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