AI model comparison
Solar Mini 4 vs Qwen3.7 Flash
Pricing, context window, benchmarks, and features compared side by side. Or skip the guesswork and send one prompt to both.
Upstage
Solar Mini 4
Solar Mini 4 is Upstage's compact, cost-efficient language model, a 35B-parameter mixture-of-experts with 3B active parameters and a 524K context window.
- Input / 1M
- $0.05
- Output / 1M
- $0.20
- Context
- 524K
Qwen
Qwen3.7 Flash
Qwen3.7 Flash is a vision-language reasoning model from Alibaba.
- Input / 1M
- $0.03
- Output / 1M
- $0.13
- Context
- 1M
At a glance
Quick verdict
How the two models stack up on the things people ask about most.
Lower price
Qwen3.7 Flash
1.6x cheaper for a typical chat
Higher intelligence score
Tie
Not enough benchmark data
Larger context window
Qwen3.7 Flash
1M vs 524K tokens
Newer release
Solar Mini 4
Released September 23, 2026
Benchmarks
Benchmark scores
Independent scores from Artificial Analysis. Higher is better.
Intelligence index
Qwen3.7 FlashNot availableCoding index
Qwen3.7 FlashNot availableAgentic index
Qwen3.7 FlashNot availablePricing
Solar Mini 4 vs Qwen3.7 Flash API pricing
Per-token API rates. Cheaper option highlighted.
| Metric | Qwen3.7 Flash | |
|---|---|---|
| Input tokensPer 1M tokens | $0.05 | $0.03 |
| Output tokensPer 1M tokens | $0.20 | $0.13 |
| Cached input (read)Per 1M tokens | $0.01 | $0.01 |
| Cache writePer 1M tokens | Not available | $0.04 |
| Long-context pricingPer 1M tokens, for very long prompts | Same rate at any length | $0.10 in / $0.40 out above 32K |
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
Qwen3.7 Flash$0.13Coding task
30K in, 4K out
Qwen3.7 Flash$1.42$0.70 cachedLong document summary
150K in, 2K out
Qwen3.7 Flash$4.76$1.16 cachedSpecs
Context window and capabilities
How much each model can read, how much it can write, and what it accepts as input.
| Metric | Qwen3.7 Flash | |
|---|---|---|
| Context window | 524K tokens | 1M tokens |
| Max output | 131K tokens | 66K tokens |
| Input types | Text | Image, Text, Video |
| Output types | Text | Text |
| Reasoning effort levels | Max, Extra high, High, Medium, Low, Minimal, None | Not available |
| Default reasoning effort | Medium | Not available |
| Release date | September 23, 2026 | July 27, 2026 |
Features
Supported features
API features available for each model.
| Metric | Qwen3.7 Flash | |
|---|---|---|
| Tool calling | Supported | Supported |
| Structured outputs | Supported | Not supported |
| JSON mode | Supported | Supported |
| Reasoning | Supported | Supported |
| Temperature | Supported | Supported |
| Stop sequences | Not supported | Not supported |
| Deterministic seed | Not supported | Supported |
| Verbosity control | Not supported | Not supported |
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Our take
Qwen3.7 Flash is 1.6x cheaper for a typical chat. Qwen3.7 Flash has the larger context window (1M 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 Solar Mini 4 or Qwen3.7 Flash cheaper?
Qwen3.7 Flash is cheaper for a typical chat (2K input tokens and 500 output tokens). Qwen3.7 Flash costs $0.03 per 1M input tokens and $0.13 per 1M output tokens, while Solar Mini 4 costs $0.05 per 1M input tokens and $0.20 per 1M output tokens.
Which has a bigger context window, Solar Mini 4 or Qwen3.7 Flash?
Qwen3.7 Flash supports up to 1M tokens of context, compared with 524K for Solar Mini 4.
Can I use Solar Mini 4 and Qwen3.7 Flash at the same time?
Yes. Shortcut Chat sends one prompt to multiple models at once, so you can see Solar Mini 4 and Qwen3.7 Flash answer side by side and keep the better response.
Why choose? Ask both.
Send one prompt to Solar Mini 4 and Qwen3.7 Flash at the same time. Compare the answers side by side and keep the best one.