How much does Solar Mini 4 cost per million tokens?

Solar Mini 4 costs $0.05 per million input tokens and $0.2 per million output tokens at list price, and $0.0050 per million cached input tokens.

What is the context window of Solar Mini 4?

Solar Mini 4 accepts up to 524,288 tokens of context and returns up to 131,072 output tokens.

How much do 1,000 chat messages cost with Solar Mini 4?

About $0.15, assuming 1,000 input + 500 output tokens per message.

Is there a cheaper alternative to Solar Mini 4?

In the same price range, Qwen Qwen3.7 Flash ($0.03 / $0.13), DeepSeek DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 ($0.042 / $0.084), OpenAI gpt-oss-120b ($0.037 / $0.17) cost less per token. Quality differs: test on your own prompts.

Where can I buy Upstage API credits for less?

Discount credit books resell OpenRouter usage below face value within their depth, OpenRouter adds a 5.5% card fee, and Upstage sells its own credits at face value. The live table on this page ranks them for $100 of usage.

Upstage · live price

Solar Mini 4 API pricing

Solar Mini 4 is Upstage's compact, cost-efficient language model, a 35B-parameter mixture-of-experts with 3B active parameters and a 524K context window. It is built for agentic use cases where response...

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Input: $0.05; per 1M tokens
Output: $0.2; per 1M tokens
Cached input: $0.0050; per 1M tokens
Context: 524K; 131K max output

List price from OpenRouter, which passes Upstage's price through without markup. Refreshed hourly. Released September 23, 2026. Model id upstage/solar-mini4.

What Solar Mini 4 costs in practice

At list price, before any batch or caching discount.

1,000 chat messages

$0.15

1,000 input + 500 output tokens each

1,000 RAG questions

$0.50

8,000 input + 500 output tokens each

100 coding-agent steps

$0.19

30,000 input + 2,000 output tokens each, no caching

Solar Mini 4 price history

No price change since we started tracking on 2026-10-01. We record prices daily; changes will show here.

Solar Mini 4 price by host

One host serves this model through OpenRouter.

Upstage$0.05 in · $0.2 out · 524K ctx · 99.9% uptime 24h

Where to buy Upstage credits for less

Solar Mini 4 costs the same per token everywhere it's sold through OpenRouter. What changes is the price of the credits. Live quotes for $100 of usage:

#	Where you buy	You payYou pay for $100.00 of usage	vs list price	Price source
1	OrbioCardCheapest right now Credits from a discount book, plus a 5% platform fee and card processing, both included in the quote.	$85.10 incl. $2.60 card processing	-14.9%	live quote
2	smaaartCard Credits from a discount book, plus a 5% platform fee on face value. Card processing and taxes shown at checkout.	$95.00 + card processing and tax at checkout (not in this number)	-5.0%	live quote
3	Direct from the labCard Prepaid credits at face value (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google…). Taxes may apply.	$100.00 no top-up fee	list price	face value
4	OpenRouterCrypto 5% on crypto purchases. No markup on model prices.	$105.00 fees included	+5.0%	published fee
5	OpenRouterCard 5.5% on card purchases, $0.80 minimum. No markup on model prices.	$105.50 fees included	+5.5%	published fee

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Solar Mini 4 cost calculator

Enter your monthly tokens to price your own usage.

Model$0.05 in / $0.2 out per 1M tokens · list price, liveInput tokens / month (millions)Output tokens / month (millions)

Usage at list price$4.50/ month(quotes below are for $5.00: purchases run from $5.00 to $10,000.00)

Cheaper alternatives to Solar Mini 4

Other labs' models in the same price range or the one below, cheaper per token.

Model	Input / 1M	Output / 1M	Blended 3:1	Context
Qwen: Qwen3.7 Flash	$0.03	$0.13	$0.055	1M
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423	$0.042	$0.084	$0.052	1.0M
OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b	$0.037	$0.17	$0.07	131K
OpenAI: gpt-oss-20b	$0.018	$0.09	$0.036	131K
Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507	$0.048	$0.193	$0.084	262K
Google: Gemma 3 4B	$0.05	$0.1	$0.063	131K

Other Upstage models

Model	Input / 1M	Output / 1M	Blended 3:1	Context
Solar Pro 4	$0.09	$0.36	$0.158	524K
Solar Pro 3	$0.15	$0.6	$0.262	131K

All Upstage API prices