AI model comparison

Nemotron 3.5 Super VL vs Solar Pro 4

Pricing, context window, benchmarks, and features compared side by side. Or skip the guesswork and send one prompt to both.

NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Super VL is an open multimodal mixture-of-experts model from NVIDIA, with 12B active parameters out of 120B total.

Input / 1M
$0.15
Output / 1M
$0.50
Context
1.05M

Solar Pro 4 is Upstage's cost-efficient large language model, featuring a 524K context window.

Input / 1M
$0.09
Output / 1M
$0.36
Context
524K

At a glance

Quick verdict

How the two models stack up on the things people ask about most.

Lower price

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Solar Pro 4

1.5x cheaper for a typical chat

Higher intelligence score

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Solar Pro 4

28.2 vs 26.5 on Artificial Analysis

Larger context window

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Nemotron 3.5 Super VL

1.05M vs 524K tokens

Newer release

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Nemotron 3.5 Super VL

Released October 15, 2026

Benchmarks

Benchmark scores

Independent scores from Artificial Analysis. Higher is better.

Intelligence index

nvidia logoNemotron 3.5 Super VL26.5
upstage logoSolar Pro 428.2

Coding index

nvidia logoNemotron 3.5 Super VLNot available
upstage logoSolar Pro 452.7

Agentic index

nvidia logoNemotron 3.5 Super VLNot available
upstage logoSolar Pro 4Not available

Pricing

Nemotron 3.5 Super VL vs Solar Pro 4 API pricing

Per-token API rates. Cheaper option highlighted.

Metricnvidia logoNemotron 3.5 Super VLupstage logoSolar Pro 4
Input tokensPer 1M tokens$0.15$0.09
Output tokensPer 1M tokens$0.50$0.36
Cached input (read)Per 1M tokens$0.02$0.02
Cache writePer 1M tokensNot availableNot available

What it costs in practice

Estimated cost per 1,000 requests at standard rates. Coding and long-document figures also show the cost when the input is already cached.

Chat message

2K in, 500 out

nvidia logoNemotron 3.5 Super VL$0.55
upstage logoSolar Pro 4$0.36

Coding task

30K in, 4K out

nvidia logoNemotron 3.5 Super VL$6.50$2.60 cached
upstage logoSolar Pro 4$4.14$1.98 cached

Long document summary

150K in, 2K out

nvidia logoNemotron 3.5 Super VL$23.50$4 cached
upstage logoSolar Pro 4$14.22$3.42 cached

Specs

Context window and capabilities

How much each model can read, how much it can write, and what it accepts as input.

Metricnvidia logoNemotron 3.5 Super VLupstage logoSolar Pro 4
Context window1.05M tokens524K tokens
Max output236K tokens131K tokens
Input typesImage, Text, VideoText
Output typesTextText
Reasoning effort levelsNot availableMax, Extra high, High, Medium, Low, Minimal, None
Default reasoning effortNot availableMedium
Release dateOctober 15, 2026August 10, 2026

Features

Supported features

API features available for each model.

Metricnvidia logoNemotron 3.5 Super VLupstage logoSolar Pro 4
Tool callingSupportedSupported
Structured outputsSupportedSupported
JSON modeSupportedSupported
ReasoningSupportedSupported
TemperatureSupportedSupported
Stop sequencesSupportedNot supported
Deterministic seedSupportedNot supported
Verbosity controlNot supportedNot supported

Our take

Solar Pro 4 is 1.5x cheaper for a typical chat. Solar Pro 4 scores higher on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index (28.2 vs 26.5). Nemotron 3.5 Super VL has the larger context window (1.05M vs 524K tokens). The right pick depends on your workload, so the quickest way to settle it is to send the same prompt to both and compare.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Is Nemotron 3.5 Super VL or Solar Pro 4 cheaper?

Solar Pro 4 is cheaper for a typical chat (2K input tokens and 500 output tokens). Solar Pro 4 costs $0.09 per 1M input tokens and $0.36 per 1M output tokens, while Nemotron 3.5 Super VL costs $0.15 per 1M input tokens and $0.50 per 1M output tokens.

Which has a bigger context window, Nemotron 3.5 Super VL or Solar Pro 4?

Nemotron 3.5 Super VL supports up to 1.05M tokens of context, compared with 524K for Solar Pro 4.

Is Nemotron 3.5 Super VL smarter than Solar Pro 4?

On the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, Nemotron 3.5 Super VL scores 26.5 and Solar Pro 4 scores 28.2, putting Solar Pro 4 ahead. Benchmarks don't capture everything, so the best test is running your own prompts through both.

Can I use Nemotron 3.5 Super VL and Solar Pro 4 at the same time?

Yes. Shortcut Chat sends one prompt to multiple models at once, so you can see Nemotron 3.5 Super VL and Solar Pro 4 answer side by side and keep the better response.

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Why choose? Ask both.

Send one prompt to Nemotron 3.5 Super VL and Solar Pro 4 at the same time. Compare the answers side by side and keep the best one.