LightOn (Paradigm) vs Upstage Solar
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
LightOn (Paradigm)
Sovereign on-prem GenAI platform for regulated European enterprises
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Upstage Solar
South Korea's frontier LLM — compact, multilingual, KOSPI-bound
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| RECATOOLS Score | 6.1 / 10 | 7.8 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Enterprise | Freemium |
| Free tier | — | Free credits on sign-up; Solar Pro 3 was free until March 2, 2026 |
| Paid from | — | Solar Pro 2/3: $0.15/1M input tokens, $0.60/1M output tokens; Explore tier from $100/mo |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✗ | ✗ |
| Users | — | ~239 employees; enterprise customers across KR, JP, US, TH |
| Founded | — | 2020 |
| Maker | — | Upstage Co., Ltd. |
| Verdict | LightOn's pitch is straightforward: keep the model and the data on your own infrastructure. Paradigm bundles RAG, agents and access to curated open and in-house models behind one API, deployable on-prem or hybrid — the o... |
Solar Pro 2 did something unusual for a 31B model: it out-scored GPT-4.1 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, the first Korean-built LLM to hit frontier status by that measure. Solar Pro 3 (January 2026) double... |
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