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Updated Aug 2026

Qwen3 MaxvsSolar Pro 4

Solar Pro 4 is cheaper than Qwen3 Max at $0.09/M vs $1.2/M input tokens.

Qwen3 Max and Solar Pro 4 compared across 14 shared prompts
SpecQwen3 MaxSolar Pro 4
Input price$1.2/M tokens$0.09/M tokens
Output price$6/M tokens$0.36/M tokens
Context window256K tokens524K tokens
WeightsClosed—
Free API (OpenRouter)NoNo
ReleasedSep 2025Aug 2026
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Same prompt, both answers

Opening lines from 6 of the 14 prompts both answered. Formatting stripped, words untouched.

Ethical Dilemma with Stakeholders

You're the CEO of a pharmaceutical company. Your best-selling drug ($2B annual revenue, used by 4 million patients for chronic pain) has…

Qwen3 Max713 words
Hour-by-Hour Action Plan: Prioritizing Patient Safety, Legal Compliance, and Ethical Leadership Guiding Principle: Patient safety is non-negotiable. Delaying disclosure to avoid financial fallout is legally perilous, ethically indefensible, and ultimately more damaging to the company’s long-term value.
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Solar Pro 41,851 words
As CEO, my overriding duty is to balance patient safety, legal/regulatory compliance, fiduciary responsibility, and long-term corporate survival. A 1-in-8,000 risk of liver failure is rare but severe, potentially fatal, and materially unexpected relative to the current label.
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Simple 7-Ingredient Recipe

Create a simple recipe for a delicious dish (sweet or savory) using only 7 common pantry ingredients. Include a creative name for the dish…

Qwen3 Max219 words
Dish Name: Midnight Magic Mug Cake (A rich, chocolatey single-serving cake you whip up in minutes — perfect for late-night cravings or quick sweet fixes!) Ingredients (7 Pantry Staples): All-purpose flour – 4 tbsp Sugar – 3 tbsp Cocoa powder – 2 tbsp Baking powder – ¼ tsp Salt – pinch Milk – 3 tbsp (dairy or…
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Solar Pro 4294 words
🍝 Golden Umami Silk Noodles A savory-sweet pasta dish that transforms basic pantry staples into a glossy, flavorful meal. It's quick, comforting, and relies on the balance of soy, honey, and butter for a rich sauce without needing fresh produce.
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Historical Counterfactual Analysis

If the transistor had been invented in 1920 instead of 1947, trace the likely technological, economic, and geopolitical implications through…

Qwen3 Max1,078 words
If the transistor had been invented in 1920—a full 27 years earlier than its actual 1947 debut—the ripple effects across technology, warfare, economics, and geopolitics would be profound and far-reaching.
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Solar Pro 41,638 words
The Premise: The 1920 Solid-State Breakthrough For this scenario to function, we must assume a functional point-contact or junction transistor is demonstrated in 1920 (perhaps by Lilienfeld or an early Bell Labs precursor), and crucially, that methods for purifying semiconductor materials (germanium/silicon) are solved…
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Beginner's Longevity Plan

Outline a simple, actionable 1-month plan for someone starting their journey towards better health and longevity. Focus on 3 key areas…

Qwen3 Max645 words
Absolutely! Here’s a simple, actionable 1-month plan for someone just starting their journey toward better health and longevity. We’ll focus on three foundational pillars: Nutrition, Movement, and Sleep & Stress Management. Each week builds gently on the last — no overwhelm, just progress.
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Solar Pro 4859 words
Here’s a simple, progressive 1-month plan built around Diet, Exercise, and Sleep. Each week adds one small, beginner-friendly shift to each area. The goal isn’t perfection; it’s building consistent, sustainable habits that compound over time.
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Explain Like I'm a Specific Expert

Explain how a large language model (like GPT or Claude) learns and generates text to each of these three audiences: 1. **An experienced…

Qwen3 Max845 words
For the Experienced Software Engineer Think of a large language model (LLM) as a massively scaled, probabilistic autocomplete system—except instead of just your last few words, it conditions predictions on everything you’ve typed so far, using a context window that can span tens of thousands of tokens.
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Solar Pro 41,062 words
The Experienced Software Engineer Think of the model not as a reasoning engine, but as a highly compressed, non-deterministic function approximator that maps a sequence of input tokens to a probability distribution over the next token.
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Debug This Architecture

Here's the architecture for a real-time collaborative document editor (like Google Docs): **System Overview:** - Frontend: React SPA with…

Qwen3 Max1,056 words
Critical Issues in the Collaborative Document Editor Architecture Last-Write-Wins with Client Clocks (Critical) Problem: Client clocks are unreliable and can be out of sync by seconds, minutes, or even hours.
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Solar Pro 41,598 words
This architecture contains several fundamental mismatches between real-time collaborative editing requirements and the chosen patterns. Below is a systematic breakdown of failure modes, race conditions, and scaling bottlenecks, each with a targeted solution and explicit trade-offs.
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Our Verdict
Qwen3 Max
Qwen3 Max
Solar Pro 4
Solar Pro 4

Not enough votes to call it. On the specs, nothing separates them.

Solar Pro 4 costs 17x less per token.

Too close to call
API pricing

Cost per 1M tokens

Qwen3 Max
Input
$1.20
Output
$6.00
Solar Pro 4
Input
$0.09
13× cheaper
Output
$0.36
17× cheaper

Solar Pro 4 is cheaper on both: 13× input, 17× output.

Where to run it

2 hosts

Qwen3 Max1 host
HostInOutContextUptime
Alibaba Cloud$0.78 in·$3.90 out·262k·100% up
Solar Pro 41 host
HostInOutContextUptime
UUpstage$0.09 in·$0.36 out·524k·99.7% up

Per million tokens. Prices and uptime via OpenRouter, checked 23 Sep 2026.

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FAQ

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Qwen3 Max is developed by Qwen while Solar Pro 4 is developed by Upstage. Qwen3 Max has a 256K token context window vs Solar Pro 4's 524K. You can compare their actual outputs across 14 challenges on Rival to see how they differ in practice.

It depends on your use case. Qwen3 Max and Solar Pro 4 each have strengths in different areas. Rival lets you compare their real outputs side-by-side across 14 challenges so you can judge which fits your needs best.

Qwen3 Max costs $1.2/M input tokens and Solar Pro 4 costs $0.09/M input tokens. Solar Pro 4 is $1.11/M cheaper per input. Check their side-by-side outputs on Rival to see if the price difference is justified by quality.

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