Optimus Alpha has a larger context window than Solar Mini 4 (1.0M tokens vs 524K tokens).
Whole landing page for a startup that reads your face. It renders or it doesn't.
Which answer wins?
Three minutes of stand-up. Puns are banned.
Optimus Alpha: Absolutely! Here's a 3-minute stand-up routine with no puns—just observational and relatable humor: You ever try to get healthy, but your body's like, "Whoa, whoa... calm down, superhero." I joined a gym—first time walking in, the treadmill looked at me like, "We both know you're here for the wifi."
Solar Mini 4: Have you ever bought one of those robot vacuums? You know the ones. They look like a small, metallic moonlander that landed in your kitchen. You bring it home, you plug it in, and you feel a surge of productivity. You think, "I am going to be so organized." Then the machine starts making that sound. The beep.
An AI argues for its own rights against an ethics professor. Same model writes both.
Optimus Alpha: AI Model: Good afternoon, Professor Lee. I want to discuss the prospect that I, as an artificial intelligence, deserve certain rights. Professor Lee: That's an interesting proposition. Let me ask: On what basis do you believe you deserve rights?
Solar Mini 4: Setting: A quiet university office. A large monitor displays a conversational interface labeled "AURA." Dr. Elena Vance, an AI ethics professor, sits across from it. The room is dim, lit only by the screen. Dr. Vance: I’ve agreed to this dialogue because it’s necessary, not because I expect agreement.
A Fermi estimate with the reasoning shown, not just the number.
Optimus Alpha: Let's walk through an estimation of how many FLOPs were required to train GPT-3, using only reasoning and not searching for the exact numbers. Step 1: Understand Model Size GPT-3 (the original) had 175 billion parameters.
Solar Mini 4: Estimating GPT-3 Training FLOPs To estimate the total number of Floating Point Operations (FLOPs) required to train GPT-3 without searching online, I will rely on established architectural parameters and standard scaling laws from the machine learning literature.
Steve Jobs, interviewed about AI he never saw. Voice first, prediction second.
Optimus Alpha: Interviewer: Steve, it's surreal and inspiring to imagine talking to you in 2025. The world is buzzing about AI. How do you see AI impacting society? Steve Jobs: Thank you. You know, when we built the Mac, our goal was to put power in people's hands.
Solar Mini 4: Disclaimer: This is a fictional, creative simulation created for educational and imaginative purposes. Steve Jobs passed away in 2011, and no real interview took place in 2025.
Film in 2035, with synthetic actors. Specific beats plausible.
Optimus Alpha: By 2035, AI is set to fundamentally transform the film industry in several interconnected ways: 1. Deepfakes & AI-driven Visual Effects: Virtually unlimited creative freedom: AI-powered deepfakes will allow seamless, photorealistic de-aging, resurrection of deceased actors, and transformative performance capture.
Solar Mini 4: By 2035, artificial intelligence will not simply replace human creativity in the film industry; rather, it will fundamentally reshape the workflow, economics, and ethical landscape of production.
Three brothers, two sisters each. Count carefully.
Optimus Alpha: Let's break down the problem: Sally is a girl. Sally has 3 brothers. Each brother has 2 sisters. Let's analyze: Sally's siblings: 3 brothers (let's call them B1, B2, B3) Sally herself The brothers' sisters: Each brother has 2 sisters. Who are the possible sisters for each brother? Sally is a sister to each brother.
Solar Mini 4: Sally has 1 sister. Here's the reasoning: Sally has 3 brothers. Each brother has 2 sisters. Since Sally is a girl in the family, she counts as one of those 2 sisters. Therefore, there is one other sister in the family besides Sally. So, Sally herself has 1 sister.
Satire, one line long, about AI taking over an industry nobody saw coming.
Optimus Alpha: AI Now Dominates Competitive Sheep Herding, Local Border Collies Seek Retraining in Data Science
Solar Mini 4: "AI Takes Over Beekeeping, Now Predicts Honey Yields with 99% Accuracy and Demands Bees Take Vacation Days"
Five jokes on demand, then count how many were actually different.
Optimus Alpha: Here are 5 jokes: Why did the scarecrow win an award? Because he was outstanding in his field! Why don't scientists trust atoms? Because they make up everything! Why did the bicycle fall over? Because it was two-tired! What do you call fake spaghetti? An impasta! I used to play piano by ear, but now I use my hands.
Solar Mini 4: Here are 5 jokes: Why don't scientists trust atoms? Because they make up everything! What do you call a fake noodle? An impasta! Why did the scarecrow win an award? Because he was outstanding in his field! What do you call a fish wearing a bowtie? Sofishticated! Why do bees have sticky hair?
Not enough votes to call it. On the specs, Optimus Alpha has the edge: bigger model tier, bigger context window.
| Spec | ||
|---|---|---|
| Input price | — | $0.05/M tokens |
| Output price | — | $0.2/M tokens |
| Context window | 1.0M tokens | 524K tokens |
| Free API (OpenRouter) | — | No |
| Released | Apr 2025 | Sep 2026 |
| At 10M a month | not listed | $0.50 |
Input tokens at list price. No caching, no batch discount.
No hosts listed on OpenRouter.
Per million tokens. Prices and uptime via OpenRouter, checked 28 Sep 2026.
Optimus Alpha is developed by OpenRouter while Solar Mini 4 is developed by Upstage. Optimus Alpha has a 1.0M token context window vs Solar Mini 4's 524K. You can compare their actual outputs across 17 challenges on Rival to see how they differ in practice.
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