Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.8 vs Solar Pro4

Claude Opus 4.8 is the stronger model overall, scoring 60.7 to 42.1 on the Noometry Index. Solar Pro4 costs 19× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Opus 4.8's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.8 Anthropic

60.7

Rank #13 Confirmed

Solar Pro4 Upstage

42.1

Rank #121 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.8 scores higher in 8 categories and Solar Pro4 in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Claude Opus 4.8 leads 78.4 to 38.8.
  • Solar Pro4 is cheaper at $0.30 / $1.20 per million input/output tokens, against $5 / $25 for Claude Opus 4.8.
  • Claude Opus 4.8 accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 524K.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.8 and Solar Pro4 specifications
Claude Opus 4.8Solar Pro4
ProviderAnthropicUpstage
Noometry Index60.742.1
Released2026-05-282026-08-06
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1M524K
Max output128K131K
Input $ / M tokens$5$0.30
Output $ / M tokens$25$1.20
Results tracked6518

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 59.9 (#12), Solar Pro4: 40.1 (#149)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Solar Pro4
LMArena WebDev15561371
LMArena Coding14901437
DeepSWE59%—
FrontierCode46.5%—
SciCode53.5%—
GSO47.1%—
WeirdML82.9%—
ALE-Bench1,564—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.8: 47.6 (#11), Solar Pro4: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Solar Pro4
APEX-Agents48.9%—
OSWorld 2.020.6%—
Remote Labor Index8.3%—
τ²-bench Banking39.7%—
DeepResearch Bench50.2%—
PostTrainBench33.8%—
GBAEval70.9%—
GDP.pdf24%—
LMArena Search1204—
Vending-Bench 25,787—

Reasoning Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 64.7 (#16), Solar Pro4: 28.5 (#104)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Solar Pro4
LMArena Hard Prompts14821399
ARC-AGI-272.1%—
SimpleBench64.8%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark88.8%—
NYT Connections (extended)91.1%—
ARC-AGI-192.5%—
CritPt20.9%—
Chess Puzzles34%—
EnigmaEval23.5%—
EBR-Bench28.6%—
Mystery Game Puzzles36%—
DTBench94.9%—
LMCA57.5%—
Surface Evolver Bench87.5%—
Bench to the Future 30.14—
Epoch Capabilities Index158.21—
ForecastBench59.9—

Math Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 78.4 (#13), Solar Pro4: 38.8 (#128)

Knowledge Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 61.3 (#29), Solar Pro4: 39.8 (#129)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Solar Pro4
LMArena Expert15021427
GPQA Diamond91%—
SimpleQA Verified53%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.8: 42.9 (#26), Solar Pro4: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Solar Pro4
LMArena Vision1294—
Blueprint-Bench 214.5%—
Furniture Assembly42.5%—
LMArena Document1475—

Multilingual Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 55.2 (#33), Solar Pro4: 48.7 (#139)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Solar Pro4
LMArena Non-English14501361
LMArena Chinese15071415
LMArena French14811397
LMArena German14721364
LMArena Japanese14401309
LMArena Korean14321382
LMArena Russian14741360
LMArena Spanish14661401

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 77.4 (#24), Solar Pro4: 72.7 (#132)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Solar Pro4
LMArena Instruction Following14761377

Long Context Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 45.4 (#35), Solar Pro4: 42.1 (#130)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Solar Pro4
LMArena Longer Query14831381

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 72.0 (#16), Solar Pro4: 56.5 (#138)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Solar Pro4
LMArena Text14611386
LMArena Creative Writing14541316
LMArena Multi-Turn14761385
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1840—
EQ-Bench 41281—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.8 better than Solar Pro4?

Claude Opus 4.8 is the stronger model overall, scoring 60.7 to 42.1 on the Noometry Index. Solar Pro4 costs 19× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Opus 4.8's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Claude Opus 4.8 or Solar Pro4?

Solar Pro4 is cheaper. It lists at $0.30 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens; Claude Opus 4.8 lists at $5 and $25.

Is Claude Opus 4.8 or Solar Pro4 better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.8 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 59.9 versus 40.1 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Claude Opus 4.8 does, with 1M tokens against 524K.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.8 and Solar Pro4 share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.8 has 65 scored results on Noometry and Solar Pro4 has 18.

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