As of August 30, 2026, Step3-VL-10B is 73% cheaper per million tokens than Solar Pro 4. Solar Pro 4 is $0.30 / $1.20 per million input/output tokens versus Step3-VL-10B at $0.10 / $0.30. Sources: https://www.upstage.ai and https://openrouter.ai/stepfun/step-3.5-flash
Sources: Upstage pricing (https://www.upstage.ai); OpenRouter pricing (https://openrouter.ai/stepfun/step-3.5-flash)
Solar Pro 4
Upstage
Input
$0.30
Output
$1.20
Step3-VL-10B
StepFun
Input
$0.10
Output
$0.30
Token pricing, specs, and benchmarks side by side
Solar Pro 4Step3-VL-10BVerdict
Both models are closely matched on benchmarks. Step3-VL-10B has the pricing advantage, making it the better value unless Solar Pro 4's specific capabilities are critical to your workflow.
As of August 30, 2026, Step3-VL-10B is 73% cheaper on blended LLM API pricing. Step3-VL-10B costs $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.30 per million output tokens ($0.40 blended 1M-in + 1M-out). Solar Pro 4 costs $0.30 / $1.20 per million tokens ($1.50 blended). Sources: https://www.upstage.ai and https://openrouter.ai/stepfun/step-3.5-flash. The cheapest LLM for your app still depends on how many output tokens you generate.
Solar Pro 4 Upstage API pricing is $0.30 input and $1.20 output per million tokens via Upstage. Step3-VL-10B OpenRouter API pricing is $0.10 input and $0.30 output per million tokens via OpenRouter. Use those four numbers, not ChatGPT Plus or Claude Pro subscription prices, when you are comparing APIs.
Solar Pro 4 has a published SWE-bench Verified score of 70.6%. Step3-VL-10B does not have that eval on this page yet.
Solar Pro 4 supports a 524K token context window, while Step3-VL-10B supports 33K tokens. Solar Pro 4 offers a larger context window. Filling a larger window bills more input tokens, so the cheaper-per-million model can still cost more on long documents.
Shared benchmark scores for Solar Pro 4 and Step3-VL-10B are still limited. Check the comparison table for the evals each model has published. Check the comparison table for GPQA Diamond, SWE-bench, MMLU, HLE, and the other evals we track. Token price and benchmark score together are the usual LLM comparison, not either number alone.
Both Solar Pro 4 and Step3-VL-10B are production API models. For cost-sensitive production traffic, Step3-VL-10B has better economics on the blended 1M-in + 1M-out scale. For maximum capability, weight the benchmark table for your domain. Many production stacks route cheap models for drafts and a frontier model for the hard turn, which is usually cheaper than sending everything to the expensive API.
Yes. Call Solar Pro 4 through Upstage and Step3-VL-10B through OpenRouter with separate API keys, or through a gateway that already wraps both. Keep prompts in tokens, not characters, when you estimate the invoice. AnotherWrapper templates can swap providers without rewriting auth and billing.
List rates are the latest published Upstage API pricing and OpenRouter API pricing, quoted per million tokens. Official rate sheets: https://www.upstage.ai and https://openrouter.ai/stepfun/step-3.5-flash. Prompt caching, batch APIs, and committed-use discounts can change the invoice. Benchmark scores are from official publications and independent evals, updated as new numbers land.
Solar Pro 4 supports up to 131K output tokens per request, while Step3-VL-10B supports up to an unspecified number of output tokens. Output tokens are usually the expensive half of API pricing, so a higher max output cap is a capability, not a discount.
Neither Solar Pro 4 nor Step3-VL-10B has published throughput data on this page yet. Throughput (tokens per second) and time-to-first-token are why two models with the same per-million-token price can still feel different in chat and agents.
Use the model pickers at the top of this LLM comparison. Search any model in the index and the URL updates. Open Solar Pro 4 or Step3-VL-10B from the sidebar for the single-model API pricing page, or go back to the LLM pricing table to sort by cheapest blended cost.
This comparison covers API pricing, context window, throughput, and benchmark scores. Solar Pro 4 costs $0.30/M input and $1.20/M output. Step3-VL-10B costs $0.10/M input and $0.30/M output via OpenRouter.
Rank both on the LLM leaderboard, SWE-bench, and Humanity's Last Exam.
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