LIVE
BODYBUILDER$-1000000.00 5.4%
GLM-4-LONG$0.00 14.1%
GEMINI-2.0-FLA$0.30 20.0%
GEMINI-2.0-FLA$0.40 6.6%
-CF$0.00 9.7%
DEEPSEEK-V4-FL$0.28 26.3%
LLAMA-4-MAVERI$0.60 11.9%
GROK-4-FAST$0.50 6.0%
QWEN-PLUS$0.78 0.6%
MINIMAX-M2.1$0.95 2.6%
MINIMAX-M2$1.00 2.9%
MINIMAX-01$1.10 8.0%
GPT-4.1-MINI$1.60 13.7%
GROK-4-1-FAST-$0.50 8.9%
GPT-4.1-MINI-2$1.60 31.8%
XAI$0.00 4.5%
MINIMAX-M2.7$0.00 9.9%
QWEN3.5-FLASH-$0.26 31.0%
GPT-4.1-NANO$0.40 13.0%
GEMINI-2.5-FLA$0.40 0.8%
DEEPSEEK-AI$0.00 27.0%
GROK-4.1-FAST$0.50 16.4%
MINIMAX-M3$1.20 6.1%
GOOGLE$1.50 3.4%
AUTO$0.00 9.7%
GOOGLE$0.00 27.8%
MINIMAX-M2.7$1.20 7.2%
GOOGLE$0.00 0.6%
BODYBUILDER$-1000000.00 5.4%
GLM-4-LONG$0.00 14.1%
GEMINI-2.0-FLA$0.30 20.0%
GEMINI-2.0-FLA$0.40 6.6%
-CF$0.00 9.7%
DEEPSEEK-V4-FL$0.28 26.3%
LLAMA-4-MAVERI$0.60 11.9%
GROK-4-FAST$0.50 6.0%
QWEN-PLUS$0.78 0.6%
MINIMAX-M2.1$0.95 2.6%
MINIMAX-M2$1.00 2.9%
MINIMAX-01$1.10 8.0%
GPT-4.1-MINI$1.60 13.7%
GROK-4-1-FAST-$0.50 8.9%
GPT-4.1-MINI-2$1.60 31.8%
XAI$0.00 4.5%
MINIMAX-M2.7$0.00 9.9%
QWEN3.5-FLASH-$0.26 31.0%
GPT-4.1-NANO$0.40 13.0%
GEMINI-2.5-FLA$0.40 0.8%
DEEPSEEK-AI$0.00 27.0%
GROK-4.1-FAST$0.50 16.4%
MINIMAX-M3$1.20 6.1%
GOOGLE$1.50 3.4%
AUTO$0.00 9.7%
GOOGLE$0.00 27.8%
MINIMAX-M2.7$1.20 7.2%
GOOGLE$0.00 0.6%
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solar-mini

Upstage
Efficiency score
88/100
+11.5%
Input price
$0.15/ 1M tokens
Output price
$0.00/ 1M tokens
Context window
1K
Throughput
152tok/s
Availability
99.8%
Cost / task
$0.000

Capabilities

Accepts (input)
Text
Produces (output)
Text

7-day heat trend

+11.5%

Pricing breakdown

Input price
$0.15/ 1M tokens
$0.0001 / 1K
Output price
$0.00/ 1M tokens
$0.0000 / 1K
Blended price
$0.04/ 1M tokens
$0.0000 / 1K

Typical 3:1 output-to-input mix, per 1M tokens

Estimated monthly cost by workload

Chat assistant
$45.00/ mo
1K in · 400 out · 10K req/day
RAG / long context
$180.00/ mo
8K in · 600 out · 5K req/day
Agent / tool use
$108.00/ mo
3K in · 1.5K out · 8K req/day
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Market position

  • Cheaper than 31% of tracked models
  • Faster than 58% of tracked models
  • Efficiency rank: #865 of 1105

Best suited for

General-purpose text generation, chat, summarization and content workloads where broad capability and low cost matter most.

About solar-mini

Upstage Solar Mini is a small, fast LLM for lightweight reasoning and cost-efficient text tasks.

solar-mini is a Text model from Upstage (US). HotON.ai tracks it at $0.15 per 1M input tokens and $0.00 per 1M output tokens, with a 1K-token context window, ~152 tokens/sec throughput and 99.8% availability. Its composite efficiency score is 88/100 at an estimated $0.000 per successful task.

Frequently asked questions

How much does solar-mini cost per 1M tokens?+

solar-mini is tracked at $0.15 per 1M input tokens and $0.00 per 1M output tokens. A typical 3:1 output-to-input workload blends to roughly $0.04 per 1M tokens. Figures are illustrative demo data.

What is solar-mini best for?+

General-purpose text generation, chat, summarization and content workloads where broad capability and low cost matter most.

How fast is solar-mini?+

solar-mini delivers about 152 tokens/sec with 99.8% tracked availability, suitable for latency-sensitive, real-time applications.

Is solar-mini cheaper than other AI models?+

Within the HotON.ai tracked set, solar-mini is cheaper than 31% of models on input price and ranks #865 of 1105 by overall efficiency.

Pricing is real (via the TestKey catalog, updated daily). Quality (Arena Elo) is real where the model is ranked on LMArena. Speed, availability and efficiency are modeled estimates.