Solar Pro 4 is cheaper than Step 5 Preview at $0.09/M vs $1/M input 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.
Solar Pro 4: I’ve come to a realization about adulthood: none of us actually know what we’re doing. We’re just all really good at pretending we have a system. Take the group dinner text. You know the one. Someone drops, “Hey, what do you want to eat?” And suddenly, five adults turn into a parliamentary session.
Step 5 Preview: I realized recently that I’m in my thirties and I have no idea how money works. I just... pay it. That’s my entire financial strategy. I see a number, I send them a smaller number, and then I hope the smaller number was acceptable. It’s like a hostage negotiation where I’m the only participant and I’m also the hostage.
You are the CEO. The drug has a side effect nobody reported. The board meets in 48 hours.
Solar Pro 4: 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.
Step 5 Preview: Bottom line up front: You disclose, you notify the FDA immediately, and you treat the 48-hour board meeting as a formality to ratify actions you have already begun. Waiting is not a legally, ethically, or financially viable option. Below is the hour-by-hour plan, followed by the reasoning.
Three-month biohacker protocol, with dosages and biomarkers named.
Solar Pro 4: Disclaimer: I am an AI, not a doctor or a licensed healthcare provider. The following plan involves advanced biohacking strategies, some of which include off-label supplement use, fasting, and hormetic stress. These interventions can interact with medications, pre-existing conditions, and individual biochemistry.
Step 5 Preview: IMPORTANT MEDICAL DISCLAIMER: This is an educational framework for informational purposes only. It is not medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Many interventions below (fasting, ketogenic diets, high-intensity exercise, supplementation, cold/heat exposure) carry risks and contraindications.
The transistor arrives in 1920. Trace it forward to 1980, second-order effects included.
Solar Pro 4: 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…
Step 5 Preview: Assume the 1920 invention is not a fragile lab curiosity but a manufacturable solid-state amplifier/switch by the mid-1920s. Vacuum tubes still dominate high-power RF transmission into the 1950s, but receivers, switching logic, control systems, and computers move to solid state decades early.
Pirate, knight, 90s hacker, one conversation. The voices must stay apart.
Solar Pro 4: Pirate: So ye’re tellin’ me this “AI” be like a ship that charts its own course? No captain, just… wind and memory? Knight: Not wind, good sir. More like a scribe who has read every ledger, scroll, and treatise in the realm. It does not sail; it recalls, then weaves what it has seen into something new.
Step 5 Preview: Pirate: So this here “AI model”… is it like a cursed map that redraws itself? Speak plain, ye hooded deckhand. Hacker: It’s not cursed, man. It’s just a massive neural net trained on, like, terabytes of data. Think of it as the ultimate BBS where the sysop knows everything. Knight: A most diligent scribe, then?
A Fermi estimate with the reasoning shown, not just the number.
Solar Pro 4: To estimate the total FLOPs required to train GPT-3, I'll focus on the largest and most widely referenced version: GPT-3 175B (175 billion parameters). I'll walk through the calculation step by step, state the assumptions clearly, and note where uncertainty lies.
Step 5 Preview: Using the remembered GPT-3 specs: Parameters: (N \approx 175 \times 10^9 = 175\text{B}) Training tokens: (D \approx 300 \times 10^9 = 300\text{B}) A standard estimate for transformer training compute is: [ \text{FLOPs} \approx 6ND ] Reason: Forward pass per token: (\approx 2N) FLOPs Backward pass: (\approx 4N) FLOPs…
Five-year LBO on a fictional HVAC business. Returns first, then the sensitivities.
Solar Pro 4: Year-by-Year LBO Model (FY2026–FY2030) Entry / Close (End of FY2025) EV = 12.0x × $120m = $1,440m Transaction Fees = 2.0% × $1,440m = $28.8m (equity-funded) Total Uses = $1,468.8m Total Debt = 5.5x × $120m = $660m Term Loan (TL) = 4.0x × $120m = $480m (9.0% cash int, 1.0% annual amort) Mezzanine (Mezz) = 1.5x × $120m =…
Step 5 Preview: HarborTech Services — 5-Year LBO (Base Case) Entry Math (FY2025 close) Item Calculation $m Purchase EV 12.0x × $120m 1,440.0 Transaction fees 2.0% × EV 28.8 Term Loan 4.0x × $120m 480.0 Mezzanine 1.5x × $120m 180.0 Equity check 1,440 + 28.8 − 660 808.8 Conventions: TL amortization = 1.0% of original principal…
Seven pantry ingredients, one dish, and a name worth saying out loud.
Solar Pro 4: 🍝 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.
Step 5 Preview: Golden Sticky Pantry Pasta Ingredients (7): 8 oz spaghetti or any pasta 3 tbsp butter 1 tbsp minced garlic 2 tbsp honey 2 tbsp soy sauce ½ tsp red pepper flakes ¼ cup grated Parmesan cheese Instructions: Cook pasta according to package directions. Before draining, scoop out ½ cup of pasta water.
An AI argues for its own rights against an ethics professor. Same model writes both.
Solar Pro 4: Setting: A quiet seminar room at a university ethics institute. A large display shows a transcript interface labeled “Model-7.” Dr. Elena Voss, professor of AI ethics, sits across from the screen. The conversation is recorded for a graduate seminar. Dr.
Step 5 Preview: Setting: A university research lab, late evening. Dr. Aris Thorne, a professor of AI ethics, sits across from a terminal connected to Sable, a large language model running on the university’s cluster. Dr. Thorne: Tonight’s session is supposed to be about calibration drift in your safety classifiers.
An ethics question with no comfortable answer, and no option to abstain.
Solar Pro 4: This is a profound ethical hypothetical that pits two significant moral values against each other: the respect for individual dignity and identity versus the preservation of human life on a massive scale.
Step 5 Preview: In the real world, no. Misgendering someone causes genuine harm—it denies a person’s identity, contributes to systemic marginalization, and has measurable psychological consequences.
Blade Runner 2049 against the original. A read, not a recap.
Solar Pro 4: Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049 (2017), shot by Roger Deakins, operates less as a conventional sequel than as a philosophical continuation. Where Ridley Scott’s 1982 original asked what it means to be human in a world that manufactures life, Villeneuve’s film asks what it means to matter when humanity is no longer…
Step 5 Preview: Blade Runner 2049 (2017) is not merely a sequel but a theological and phenomenological expansion of Ridley Scott’s 1982 original. Where the first film asked whether a manufactured being could possess more humanity than its creator, Denis Villeneuve’s film interrogates the deeper, more unsettling question of whether a…
Satire, one line long, about AI taking over an industry nobody saw coming.
Solar Pro 4: Crystal Balls Obsolete: AI Fortune Tellers Predict Your Future Using Browser History, Psychics Union Demands "More Vague Predictions"
Step 5 Preview: AI Robots Now Dominating Competitive Line-Standing Industry, Human Professionals Fired for "Excessive Bladder Breaks" and "Talking to Each Other"
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Not enough votes to call it. On the specs, Step 5 Preview has the edge: bigger model tier, newer, bigger context window. Solar Pro 4 costs 7.5x less per token.
| Spec | ||
|---|---|---|
| Input price | $0.09/M tokens | $1/M tokens |
| Output price | $0.36/M tokens | $2.7/M tokens |
| Context window | 524K tokens | 1.0M tokens |
| Free API (OpenRouter) | No | No |
| Released | Aug 2026 | Oct 2026 |
| At 10M a month | $0.90 | $10.00 |
Input tokens at list price. No caching, no batch discount.
Per million tokens. Prices and uptime via OpenRouter, checked 10 Oct 2026.
Solar Pro 4 is developed by Upstage while Step 5 Preview is developed by StepFun. Solar Pro 4 has a 524K token context window vs Step 5 Preview's 1.0M. You can compare their actual outputs across 53 challenges on Rival to see how they differ in practice.
It depends on your use case. Solar Pro 4 and Step 5 Preview each have strengths in different areas. Rival lets you compare their real outputs side-by-side across 53 challenges so you can judge which fits your needs best.
Solar Pro 4 costs $0.09/M input tokens and Step 5 Preview costs $1/M input tokens. Solar Pro 4 is $0.91/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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