How much does solar-mini cost per month?

For a chatbot handling 10,000 requests a day with 1,000 input and 500 output tokens each, solar-mini costs about $67.50 per month at Upstage's list prices ($0.15 per 1M input tokens, $0.15 per 1M output tokens).

Does solar-mini support prompt caching?

No cache read price is published for solar-mini.

How long is solar-mini's context window?

solar-mini accepts up to 32,768 tokens (33K) of context and returns up to 4,096 tokens per response.

solar-mini API Pricing

Upstage · released Jun 12, 2024 · 33K context · API model ID solar-mini

solar-mini by Upstage API pricing: $0.15 per 1M input tokens and $0.15 per 1M output tokens (provider list price via models.dev, Oct 10, 2026).

Prices

solar-mini prices, USD per 1M tokens
Price	USD per 1M tokens
Input	$0.15
Output	$0.15
Cache read	Not published
Cache write	Not published

Upstage's list price for its own API, as compiled by models.dev and checked Oct 10, 2026, 09:00 UTC. Prices on cloud platforms and resellers can differ. Provider documentation

Estimated monthly cost

$67.50

per month

per day: $2.25
per request: $0.000225

Cost = input tokens × input price + output tokens × output price, 30 days a month. Cached input uses the cache read price. Cache write fees are not included.

Compare this workload across models

Monthly cost by workload

Workload	Per month
Chatbot1,000 in / 500 out tokens, 10,000 requests a day	$67.50/mo
RAG8,000 in / 500 out tokens, 5,000 requests a day	$191.25/mo
Coding agent50,000 in / 2,000 out tokens, 1,000 requests a day, 80% cached input	$234.00/mo

Context and capabilities

Context: 32,768 tokens
Max output: 4,096 tokens
Input: text
Output: text
Knowledge cutoff: September 2024
Open weights: No
Tool calling: Yes
Reasoning: No
Structured outputs: No

Capabilities and limits as listed by models.dev.

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Price history

No price changes since we started tracking on Oct 8, 2026.

Questions

How much does solar-mini cost per month?: For a chatbot handling 10,000 requests a day with 1,000 input and 500 output tokens each, solar-mini costs about $67.50 per month at Upstage's list prices ($0.15 per 1M input tokens, $0.15 per 1M output tokens).
Does solar-mini support prompt caching?: No cache read price is published for solar-mini.
How long is solar-mini's context window?: solar-mini accepts up to 32,768 tokens (33K) of context and returns up to 4,096 tokens per response.