Solar (Upstage) vs Llama
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Solar (Upstage)
Upstage's Korean-strong LLMs: Solar Pro 4, Mini 4 and open Solar Open...
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Llama
Meta's downloadable LLM family, last updated with Llama 4 in April 202...
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7 / 10 | 8.3 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Usage_based | Open Source |
| Free tier | Solar Open 2 and Solar Open 100B weights free to download (Upstage Solar License, commercial use allowed); each Studio agent includes 10 free runs | Free weight downloads (Llama 2, 3.x and 4) under Meta's Llama community licences, after accepting the licence |
| Paid from | Solar Mini 4 from $0.10/$0.40 per 1M tokens; Solar Pro 4 $0.30/$1.20 | — |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✓ | ✓ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | 200k+ downloads | 10m+ downloads |
| Founded | 2020 | 2023 |
| Maker | Upstage Co., Ltd. | Meta Platforms |
| Verdict | Solar has matured into a credible model family, with a strong Korean-language flagship, a cheap small model and genuinely capable open weights that can be self-hosted commercially. Its benchmark wins are reported by Upst... |
Llama 2 and 3 made Meta's family the default starting point for self-hosted and fine-tuned models, and the weights from Llama 2 through Llama 4 remain free to download from Hugging Face and Kaggle. Llama 4 Scout and Mave... |
| Full review → | Full review → |
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