Model comparison

o4-mini vs Solar Pro4

o4-mini and Solar Pro4 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (41.6 vs 42.1), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

o4-mini OpenAI

41.6

Rank #132 Confirmed

Solar Pro4 Upstage

42.1

Rank #121 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. o4-mini scores higher in 5 categories and Solar Pro4 in 3 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Solar Pro4 leads 28.5 to 24.6.
  • Solar Pro4 is cheaper at $0.30 / $1.20 per million input/output tokens, against $1.10 / $4.40 for o4-mini.
  • Solar Pro4 accepts more context: 524K tokens versus 200K.

Side by side

o4-mini and Solar Pro4 specifications
o4-miniSolar Pro4
ProviderOpenAIUpstage
Noometry Index41.642.1
Released2025-04-162026-08-06
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window200K524K
Max output100K131K
Input $ / M tokens$1.10$0.30
Output $ / M tokens$4.40$1.20
Results tracked6018

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Category by category

Coding Too close to call

o4-mini: 40.9 (#127), Solar Pro4: 40.1 (#149)

Coding benchmarks
Benchmarko4-miniSolar Pro4
LMArena Coding13681437
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)45%—
Aider Polyglot72%—
LMArena WebDev—1371
GSO3.6%—
WeirdML52.6%—
CadEval62%—
ALE-Bench826.17—
AlgoTune1.72—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

o4-mini: 32.6 (#61), Solar Pro4: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
Benchmarko4-miniSolar Pro4
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard53.2%—
GDPval25.3%—
METR Time Horizons63.9%—

Reasoning Solar Pro4 leads

o4-mini: 24.6 (#162), Solar Pro4: 28.5 (#104)

Reasoning benchmarks
Benchmarko4-miniSolar Pro4
LMArena Hard Prompts13511399
ARC-AGI-26.1%—
SimpleBench38.7%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark67.6%—
ARC-AGI-158.7%—
CritPt0.6%—
Chess Puzzles26%—
EnigmaEval9.2%—
Mystery Game Puzzles5%—
DTBench77.6%—
LMCA26.5%—
Epoch Capabilities Index145.64—
ForecastBench61.8—

Math o4-mini leads

o4-mini: 40.8 (#89), Solar Pro4: 38.8 (#128)

Math benchmarks
Benchmarko4-miniSolar Pro4
LMArena Math13891416
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)36.1%—
FrontierMath Tier 44.9%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202581.7%—
Omni-MATH72%—
MATH Level 597.8%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)24.8%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)6.3%—

Knowledge o4-mini leads

o4-mini: 43.6 (#91), Solar Pro4: 39.8 (#129)

Knowledge benchmarks
Benchmarko4-miniSolar Pro4
LMArena Expert13431427
GPQA Diamond79.6%—
Humanity's Last Exam18.1%—
SimpleQA Verified19.6%—
MMLU-Pro82%—
Confabulations15.8%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate18.6%—
GPQA (HELM)73.5%—

Multimodal Not comparable

o4-mini: 40.2 (#49), Solar Pro4: —

Multimodal benchmarks
Benchmarko4-miniSolar Pro4
LMArena Vision1194—
GeoBench64%—
VPCT57.5%—

Multilingual Solar Pro4 leads

o4-mini: 47.0 (#154), Solar Pro4: 48.7 (#139)

Multilingual benchmarks
Benchmarko4-miniSolar Pro4
LMArena Non-English13371361
LMArena Chinese13541415
LMArena French13641397
LMArena German13361364
LMArena Japanese13081309
LMArena Korean13121382
LMArena Russian13341360
LMArena Spanish13471401

Instruction Following o4-mini leads

o4-mini: 75.2 (#68), Solar Pro4: 72.7 (#132)

Instruction Following benchmarks
Benchmarko4-miniSolar Pro4
LMArena Instruction Following13211377
IFEval92.8%—

Long Context o4-mini leads

o4-mini: 45.5 (#33), Solar Pro4: 42.1 (#130)

Long Context benchmarks
Benchmarko4-miniSolar Pro4
LMArena Longer Query13151381
Fiction.LiveBench77.8%—

Writing & Preference Solar Pro4 leads

o4-mini: 54.0 (#152), Solar Pro4: 56.5 (#138)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
Benchmarko4-miniSolar Pro4
LMArena Text13531386
LMArena Creative Writing12941316
LMArena Multi-Turn13501385
Short-Story Creative Writing75%—
WildBench85.4%—

Frequently asked questions

Is o4-mini better than Solar Pro4?

o4-mini and Solar Pro4 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (41.6 vs 42.1), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Which is cheaper, o4-mini or Solar Pro4?

Solar Pro4 is cheaper. It lists at $0.30 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens; o4-mini lists at $1.10 and $4.40.

Is o4-mini or Solar Pro4 better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (40.9 vs 40.1); test both on your own repository before choosing.

Which has the bigger context window?

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

How many benchmarks do o4-mini and Solar Pro4 share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. o4-mini has 60 scored results on Noometry and Solar Pro4 has 18.

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