AI model comparison

Solar Pro 3 vs gpt-oss-120b

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

Solar Pro 3 is Upstage's powerful Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) language model. With 102B total parameters and 12B active parameters per forward pass, it delivers exceptional performance while maintaining computational efficiency.

Input / 1M
$0.15
Output / 1M
$0.60
Context
131K

gpt-oss-120b is an open-weight, 117B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) language model from OpenAI designed for high-reasoning, agentic, and general-purpose production use cases.

Input / 1M
$0.15
Output / 1M
$0.60
Context
131K

At a glance

Quick verdict

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

Lower price

Tie

Same price for a typical chat

Higher intelligence score

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gpt-oss-120b

11.6 vs 7.8 on Artificial Analysis

Larger context window

Tie

131K vs 131K tokens

Newer release

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Solar Pro 3

Released January 27, 2026

Benchmarks

Benchmark scores

Independent scores from Artificial Analysis. Higher is better.

Intelligence index

upstage logoSolar Pro 37.8
openai logogpt-oss-120b11.6

Coding index

upstage logoSolar Pro 316.2
openai logogpt-oss-120b30.4

Agentic index

upstage logoSolar Pro 31.4
openai logogpt-oss-120b3.7

Pricing

Solar Pro 3 vs gpt-oss-120b API pricing

Per-token API rates. Cheaper option highlighted.

Metricupstage logoSolar Pro 3openai logogpt-oss-120b
Input tokensPer 1M tokens$0.15$0.15
Output tokensPer 1M tokens$0.60$0.60
Cached input (read)Per 1M tokens$0.02$0.08
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

upstage logoSolar Pro 3$0.60
openai logogpt-oss-120b$0.60

Coding task

30K in, 4K out

upstage logoSolar Pro 3$6.90$2.85 cached
openai logogpt-oss-120b$6.90$4.65 cached

Long document summary

150K in, 2K out

upstage logoSolar Pro 3$23.70$3.45 cached
openai logogpt-oss-120b$23.70$12.45 cached

Specs

Context window and capabilities

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

Metricupstage logoSolar Pro 3openai logogpt-oss-120b
Context window131K tokens131K tokens
Max output118K tokens66K tokens
Input typesTextText
Output typesTextText
Reasoning effort levelsHigh, Medium, Low, Minimal, NoneHigh, Medium, Low
Default reasoning effortMediumMedium
Release dateJanuary 27, 2026August 5, 2025

Features

Supported features

API features available for each model.

Metricupstage logoSolar Pro 3openai logogpt-oss-120b
Tool callingSupportedSupported
Structured outputsSupportedSupported
JSON modeSupportedSupported
ReasoningSupportedSupported
TemperatureSupportedSupported
Stop sequencesNot supportedSupported
Deterministic seedNot supportedSupported
Verbosity controlNot supportedNot supported

Our take

gpt-oss-120b scores higher on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index (11.6 vs 7.8). 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 Pro 3 or gpt-oss-120b cheaper?

Solar Pro 3 and gpt-oss-120b cost the same for a typical chat (2K input tokens and 500 output tokens). Solar Pro 3 costs $0.15 per 1M input tokens and $0.60 per 1M output tokens, and gpt-oss-120b costs $0.15 per 1M input tokens and $0.60 per 1M output tokens.

Which has a bigger context window, Solar Pro 3 or gpt-oss-120b?

Solar Pro 3 supports up to 131K tokens of context, compared with 131K for gpt-oss-120b.

Is Solar Pro 3 smarter than gpt-oss-120b?

On the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, Solar Pro 3 scores 7.8 and gpt-oss-120b scores 11.6, putting gpt-oss-120b ahead. Benchmarks don't capture everything, so the best test is running your own prompts through both.

Can I use Solar Pro 3 and gpt-oss-120b at the same time?

Yes. Shortcut Chat sends one prompt to multiple models at once, so you can see Solar Pro 3 and gpt-oss-120b answer side by side and keep the better response.

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Why choose? Ask both.

Send one prompt to Solar Pro 3 and gpt-oss-120b at the same time. Compare the answers side by side and keep the best one.