Model comparison

Gemini 2.5 Pro vs Solar Pro4

Gemini 2.5 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.0 to 42.1 on the Noometry Index. Solar Pro4 costs 6.5× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Gemini 2.5 Pro's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.5 Pro Google

45.0

Rank #75 Confirmed

Solar Pro4 Upstage

42.1

Rank #121 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.5 Pro scores higher in 7 categories and Solar Pro4 in 1 category; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in long context, where Gemini 2.5 Pro leads 59.8 to 42.1.
  • Solar Pro4 is cheaper at $0.30 / $1.20 per million input/output tokens, against $1.25 / $10 for Gemini 2.5 Pro.
  • Gemini 2.5 Pro accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 524K.

Side by side

Gemini 2.5 Pro and Solar Pro4 specifications
Gemini 2.5 ProSolar Pro4
ProviderGoogleUpstage
Noometry Index45.042.1
Released2025-03-252026-08-06
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1.05M524K
Max output66K131K
Input $ / M tokens$1.25$0.30
Output $ / M tokens$10$1.20
Results tracked7818

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 42.4 (#101), Solar Pro4: 40.1 (#149)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProSolar Pro4
LMArena WebDev12271371
LMArena Coding14521437
SWE-bench Verified57.6%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)53.6%—
Aider Polyglot83.1%—
SciCode42.8%—
GSO3.9%—
WeirdML54%—
LiveBench Coding85.9%—
CadEval64%—
ALE-Bench785.52—
AlgoTune1.51—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 29.2 (#88), Solar Pro4: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProSolar Pro4
Terminal-Bench32.6%—
GDPval23.3%—
Remote Labor Index0.8%—
TheAgentCompany30.3%—
τ²-bench Banking13.7%—
DeepResearch Bench42.8%—
BALROG43.3%—
LMArena Search1142—
METR Time Horizons55.4%—
Vending-Bench 2573.64—

Reasoning Too close to call

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 28.8 (#99), Solar Pro4: 28.5 (#104)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProSolar Pro4
LMArena Hard Prompts14551399
ARC-AGI-24.9%—
SimpleBench62.4%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark70.3%—
ARC-AGI-141%—
CritPt2%—
Chess Puzzles20%—
EnigmaEval5.6%—
LiveBench Reasoning89.8%—
DTBench82.4%—
LiveBench Data Analysis79.9%—
LMCA34.8%—
Epoch Capabilities Index145.32—
ForecastBench61.3—
LiveBench82.3%—

Math Solar Pro4 leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 32.5 (#213), Solar Pro4: 38.8 (#128)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProSolar Pro4
LMArena Math14501416
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)24.6%—
FrontierMath Tier 40%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202584.7%—
Omni-MATH41.6%—
LiveBench Math90.2%—
MATH Level 595.9%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)14.1%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%—

Knowledge Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 56.0 (#46), Solar Pro4: 39.8 (#129)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProSolar Pro4
LMArena Expert14521427
GPQA Diamond85.3%—
Humanity's Last Exam21.6%—
MMLU-Pro86.3%—
Confabulations10.6%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate7%—
GPQA (HELM)74.9%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 45.2 (#18), Solar Pro4: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProSolar Pro4
LMArena Vision1263—
GeoBench86%—
VPCT48%—
LMArena Document1421—
SpatialViz-Bench44.7%—

Multilingual Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 55.3 (#31), Solar Pro4: 48.7 (#139)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProSolar Pro4
LMArena Non-English14511361
LMArena Chinese15071415
LMArena French14721397
LMArena German14871364
LMArena Japanese14611309
LMArena Korean14341382
LMArena Russian14611360
LMArena Spanish14731401

Instruction Following Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 75.0 (#75), Solar Pro4: 72.7 (#132)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProSolar Pro4
LMArena Instruction Following14371377
LiveBench Instruction Following80.6%—
IFEval84%—

Long Context Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 59.8 (#5), Solar Pro4: 42.1 (#130)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProSolar Pro4
LMArena Longer Query14491381
Fiction.LiveBench91.7%—

Writing & Preference Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 63.7 (#62), Solar Pro4: 56.5 (#138)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProSolar Pro4
LMArena Text14581386
LMArena Creative Writing14541316
LMArena Multi-Turn14531385
Short-Story Creative Writing83.8%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1421—
WildBench85.7%—
LiveBench Language67.8%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.5 Pro better than Solar Pro4?

Gemini 2.5 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.0 to 42.1 on the Noometry Index. Solar Pro4 costs 6.5× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Gemini 2.5 Pro's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 2.5 Pro or Solar Pro4?

Solar Pro4 is cheaper. It lists at $0.30 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens; Gemini 2.5 Pro lists at $1.25 and $10.

Is Gemini 2.5 Pro or Solar Pro4 better for coding?

Gemini 2.5 Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.4 versus 40.1 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 2.5 Pro does, with 1.05M tokens against 524K.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.5 Pro and Solar Pro4 share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.5 Pro has 78 scored results on Noometry and Solar Pro4 has 18.

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