Solar LLM vs Mistral AI
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Solar LLM
Upstage's Solar LLMs — Korea's frontier family, now Solar Pro 3
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Mistral AI
European frontier-model lab
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7 / 10 | 8.4 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Open Source | Freemium |
| Free tier | Free to download | Free open-weight models for self-hosting |
| Paid from | — | $0.14/1M tokens (Mistral Small via API) |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✓ | ✓ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | 200k+ downloads | 500k+ API users |
| Founded | 2020 | 2023 |
| Maker | Upstage AI | Arthur Mensch, Guillaume Lample, Timothee Lacroix |
| Verdict | Solar is the rare 2023 open-weights story that grew into a real product line. The Apache-2.0 Solar 10.7B and its depth up-scaling trick topped the Hugging Face leaderboard in December 2023; the commercial line then kept... |
Mistral is the strongest European alternative to the US labs, and its open-weight releases are the reason: Mistral Large 3 (December 2025) ships as a 675B-parameter MoE under Apache 2.0 with a 256K context window, Medium... |
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