Model comparison
GPT-3.5-turbo vs Solar Pro4
Solar Pro4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.1 to 23.2 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-3.5-turbo scores higher in 0 categories and Solar Pro4 in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Solar Pro4 leads 38.8 to 6.3.
- Solar Pro4 is cheaper at $0.30 / $1.20 per million input/output tokens, against $0.50 / $1.50 for GPT-3.5-turbo.
- Solar Pro4 accepts more context: 524K tokens versus 16K.
Side by side
| GPT-3.5-turbo | Solar Pro4 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI | Upstage |
| Noometry Index | 23.2 | 42.1 |
| Released | 2023-03-01 | 2026-08-06 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | 16K | 524K |
| Max output | 4K | 131K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.50 | $0.30 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $1.50 | $1.20 |
| Results tracked | 44 | 18 |
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Category by category
Coding Solar Pro4 leads
GPT-3.5-turbo: 23.9 (#331), Solar Pro4: 40.1 (#149)
| Benchmark | GPT-3.5-turbo | Solar Pro4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1136 | 1437 |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1371 |
| WeirdML | 3.5% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 39.1% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 50.6% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 70.7% | — |
| MBPP+ | 69.7% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
GPT-3.5-turbo: —, Solar Pro4: —
| Benchmark | GPT-3.5-turbo | Solar Pro4 |
|---|---|---|
| METR Time Horizons | 21.5% | — |
Reasoning Solar Pro4 leads
GPT-3.5-turbo: 13.8 (#332), Solar Pro4: 28.5 (#104)
| Benchmark | GPT-3.5-turbo | Solar Pro4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1108 | 1399 |
| Chess Puzzles | 0% | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 3% | — |
| DTBench | 48.5% | — |
| LMCA | 9.7% | — |
| Adversarial NLI | 58.1% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 61.6% | — |
| CommonsenseQA 2.0 | 57% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 118.55 | — |
| ForecastBench | 50.4 | — |
| WinoGrande | 81.6% | — |
Math Solar Pro4 leads
GPT-3.5-turbo: 6.3 (#327), Solar Pro4: 38.8 (#128)
| Benchmark | GPT-3.5-turbo | Solar Pro4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1142 | 1416 |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 0% | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 2.2% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 15.9% | — |
| GSM8K | 57.8% | — |
Knowledge Solar Pro4 leads
GPT-3.5-turbo: 10.0 (#303), Solar Pro4: 39.8 (#129)
| Benchmark | GPT-3.5-turbo | Solar Pro4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1070 | 1427 |
| GPQA Diamond | 28% | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 87.4% | — |
| BoolQ | 87% | — |
| MMLU | 71.4% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 86% | — |
| TriviaQA | 85.8% | — |
Multilingual Solar Pro4 leads
GPT-3.5-turbo: 31.5 (#258), Solar Pro4: 48.7 (#139)
| Benchmark | GPT-3.5-turbo | Solar Pro4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1108 | 1361 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1075 | 1415 |
| LMArena French | 1118 | 1397 |
| LMArena German | 1090 | 1364 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1043 | 1309 |
| LMArena Korean | 1019 | 1382 |
| LMArena Russian | 1123 | 1360 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1121 | 1401 |
Instruction Following Solar Pro4 leads
GPT-3.5-turbo: 57.9 (#262), Solar Pro4: 72.7 (#132)
| Benchmark | GPT-3.5-turbo | Solar Pro4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1119 | 1377 |
Long Context Solar Pro4 leads
GPT-3.5-turbo: 34.0 (#254), Solar Pro4: 42.1 (#130)
| Benchmark | GPT-3.5-turbo | Solar Pro4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1121 | 1381 |
Writing & Preference Solar Pro4 leads
GPT-3.5-turbo: 25.3 (#305), Solar Pro4: 56.5 (#138)
| Benchmark | GPT-3.5-turbo | Solar Pro4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1125 | 1386 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1092 | 1316 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1117 | 1385 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 451 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is GPT-3.5-turbo better than Solar Pro4?
Solar Pro4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.1 to 23.2 on the Noometry Index.
Which is cheaper, GPT-3.5-turbo or Solar Pro4?
Solar Pro4 is cheaper. It lists at $0.30 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens; GPT-3.5-turbo lists at $0.50 and $1.50.
Is GPT-3.5-turbo or Solar Pro4 better for coding?
Solar Pro4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.1 versus 23.9 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
Solar Pro4 does, with 524K tokens against 16K.
How many benchmarks do GPT-3.5-turbo and Solar Pro4 share?
17 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-3.5-turbo has 44 scored results on Noometry and Solar Pro4 has 18.