AI Models · Paid vs Paid

AMNova Premier 1.0 Paid vs Solar Pro 3 Paid

Nova Premier 1.0 vs Solar Pro 3 compared — price per token, context window, multimodality, openness and which to choose. Full 2026 breakdown.

Prices & specs refreshed from live data · olud.ai

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AMNova Premier 1.0PaidAmazon
$2.5 /M input
$12.5 /M outputManaged API (no infra to run)
TypeProprietary
Context window1M tokens
MultimodalYes
Self-hostNo
Solar Pro 3PaidUpstage
$0.15 /M input
$0.6 /M outputManaged API (no infra to run)
TypeProprietary
Context window131K tokens
MultimodalNo
Self-hostNo
Choose Solar Pro 3 for the lower output price ($0.6/M vs $12.5/M). Choose Nova Premier 1.0 if you need the larger 1M context window.

Nova Premier 1.0 vs Solar Pro 3 specs

SpecNova Premier 1.0Solar Pro 3Winner
MakerAmazonUpstage
TypeProprietaryProprietary
Context window1M tokens131K tokensAMNova Premier 1.0
Input price$2.5/M$0.15/MSolar Pro 3
Output price$12.5/M$0.6/MSolar Pro 3
Vision / multimodalYesNoAMNova Premier 1.0
Tool / function callingYesYes= Tie
Self-hostableNo (API only)No (API only)
LicenseProprietaryProprietary

Price gap & when to choose each

21×cheaper per output token

Solar Pro 3 is ~21× cheaper than Nova Premier 1.0 on output tokens ($0.6 vs $12.5 per M tokens).

AMChoose Nova Premier 1.0 if…
  • You want frontier performance through a managed API
  • You need the longer 1M context window
  • You value reliability & ecosystem
  • You don't want to manage infrastructure
Choose Solar Pro 3 if…
  • You want frontier performance through a managed API
  • You want the lower output price
  • You value reliability & ecosystem
  • You don't want to manage infrastructure

Feature comparison

CapabilityNova Premier 1.0Solar Pro 3
Open weights (downloadable)
Self-hostable
Runs fully offline
Vision / multimodal
Tool / function calling
1M+ context window

Benchmarks: Nova Premier 1.0 vs Solar Pro 3

Independent benchmark scores measured by Artificial Analysis. Higher is better (except latency).

Nova Premier 1.0
Solar Pro 3
Intelligence index
7.8
Coding index
16.2
GPQA
72.4%
Humanity's Last Exam
10.3%
Long Context Reasoning
32.3%
SciCode
25.5%
IFBench
71.2%
τ²-Bench
86.3%
τ-Bench Banking
8.7%
Terminal-Bench
12%
Terminal-Bench Hard
7.6%
Speed
157.2 tok/s
Latency
1.33s
Intelligence per $
29.8

Benchmark data by Artificial Analysis.

How Nova Premier 1.0 and Solar Pro 3 score

🏆 Best value & openness: Nova Premier 1.0 (3.2 vs 2.9 / 5)
CriterionNova Premier 1.0Solar Pro 3
Cost-efficiency3.55.0
Context window5.03.5
Openness1.51.5
Self-hosting1.01.0
Multimodality5.03.5

Scores come from live data — output price (cost), context length, open vs closed weights (openness & self-hosting) and vision/tool support (multimodality). Raw task quality isn't scored here; it depends on your benchmark — see the verdict.

What each model is

Nova Premier 1.0 Paid

Amazon · Proprietary

Amazon Nova Premier is the most capable of Amazon’s multimodal models for complex reasoning tasks and for use as the best teacher for distilling custom models.

Solar Pro 3 Paid

Upstage · Proprietary

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. Optimized...

Frequently asked questions

Nova Premier 1.0 vs Solar Pro 3 — which is cheaper?

Solar Pro 3 is cheaper on output ($0.6/M vs $12.5/M).

Which has the larger context window?

Nova Premier 1.0 offers the larger context window (1M tokens).

Nova Premier 1.0 vs Solar Pro 3 — which should I pick in 2026?

Choose Solar Pro 3 for the lower output price ($0.6/M vs $12.5/M). Choose Nova Premier 1.0 if you need the larger 1M context window.

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