Qwen Plus Character (Japanese) vs SOLAR 10.7B Instruct v1.0 vs solar-mini
solar-mini comes out ahead, 15 to 0 and 0 on our weighted score, and it is the cheaper option too.
Alibaba (Qwen)Qwen Plus Character (Japanese)
0/100- ECI—
- Price$0.50 / $1.40
- Context8K
UpstageSOLAR 10.7B Instruct v1.0
0/100- ECI—
- Price—
- Context4K
- Our pickUpstage
solar-mini
15/100- ECI—
- Price$0.15 / $0.15
- Context33K
solar-mini is our pick
solar-mini is the better all-round choice, scoring 15/100 against Qwen Plus Character (Japanese) (0) and SOLAR 10.7B Instruct v1.0 (0). It leads on inputs & features. The score weighs inputs & features 60%, context window 40%. None of the shared benchmarks cover every model here yet, so capability is left out of this verdict.
- CapabilityNot enough dataNo independent benchmark covers every model here yet
- Lowest pricesolar-minisolar-mini $0.15 · Qwen Plus Character (Japanese) $0.725 per 1M tokens (3:1 blend) · SOLAR 10.7B Instruct v1.0 unpriced
- Longest contextsolar-minisolar-mini 32,768 · Qwen Plus Character (Japanese) 8,192 · SOLAR 10.7B Instruct v1.0 4,096 tokens
- Widest inputsSame inputsQwen Plus Character (Japanese): Text · SOLAR 10.7B Instruct v1.0: Text · solar-mini: Text
- Self-hostingSOLAR 10.7B Instruct v1.0Publishes downloadable weights (CC-BY-NC-4.0)
| Measure | Weight | Qwen Plus Character (Japanese) | SOLAR 10.7B Instruct v1.0 | solar-mini |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inputs & features | 60% | 0 | 0 | 25 |
| Context window | 40% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Overall | 100% | 0/100 | 0/100 | 15/100 |
Left out because at least one model lacks the data: capability and price. The remaining weights were rescaled.
Every spec in one table
Highlighted cells lead their row. Dashes mean the data is not published.
| Specification | Qwen Plus Character (Japanese)Alibaba (Qwen) | SOLAR 10.7B Instruct v1.0Upstage | solar-miniUpstage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Capability | |||
| Capabilities Index (ECI) | — | — | — |
| ECI rank | — | — | — |
| Price per million tokens | |||
| Input | $0.50 | — | $0.15 (best) |
| Output | $1.40 | — | $0.15 (best) |
| Cached input | — | — | — |
| Blended (3:1) | $0.725 | — | $0.15 (best) |
| Long-context rate | Same rate | — | Same rate |
| Price source | Official Alibaba API | — | Official Upstage API |
| Limits | |||
| Context window | 8,192 tokens | 4,096 tokens | 32,768 tokens (best) |
| Max output | 512 tokens | 4,096 tokens (best) | 4,096 tokens (best) |
| Inputs and features | |||
| Text | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Images | No | No | No |
| PDFs | No | No | No |
| Audio | No | No | No |
| Video | No | No | No |
| Reasoning | No | No | No |
| Tool calling | No | No | Yes |
| Structured output | No | No | No |
| Availability | |||
| Weights | Proprietary | OpenCC-BY-NC-4.0 | Proprietary |
| API model ID | qwen-plus-character-ja | — | solar-mini |
| API providers | 1 | — | 1 |
| Released | Jan 2024 | Dec 12, 2023 | Jun 12, 2024 |
| Knowledge cutoff | Apr 2024 | — | Sep 2024 |
What would a month cost?
Enter your expected volume in millions of tokens. List prices only; caching and batch discounts would lower these.
- Qwen Plus Character (Japanese)$7.80
- SOLAR 10.7B Instruct v1.0—
- solar-mini$1.80
Which should you choose?
Which is better: Qwen Plus Character (Japanese), SOLAR 10.7B Instruct v1.0 or solar-mini?
solar-mini is the better all-round choice, scoring 15/100 against Qwen Plus Character (Japanese) (0) and SOLAR 10.7B Instruct v1.0 (0). It leads on inputs & features. The score weighs inputs & features 60%, context window 40%. None of the shared benchmarks cover every model here yet, so capability is left out of this verdict.
Which is cheaper, Qwen Plus Character (Japanese), SOLAR 10.7B Instruct v1.0 or solar-mini?
solar-mini is cheaper at $0.15 input / $0.15 output per million tokens (official Upstage API price). Qwen Plus Character (Japanese) costs $0.50 input / $1.40 output per million tokens (official Alibaba API price). At a typical mix of three input tokens to one output token, that is $0.15 per million tokens for solar-mini versus $0.725 for Qwen Plus Character (Japanese) (4.8× as much). SOLAR 10.7B Instruct v1.0 has no published per-token price.
Which scores higher on benchmarks?
There is no independent benchmark that covers all three models yet. Qwen Plus Character (Japanese) has not been scored yet, SOLAR 10.7B Instruct v1.0 has not been scored yet and solar-mini has not been scored yet.
Which is better for coding?
There are no published SWE-bench Verified results for Qwen Plus Character (Japanese), SOLAR 10.7B Instruct v1.0 and solar-mini yet, so there is no like-for-like coding score. Test both on a sample of your own tasks. Note that Qwen Plus Character (Japanese) and SOLAR 10.7B Instruct v1.0 does not support tool calling, which most coding agents need.
Which has the bigger context window?
solar-mini has the largest context window at 32,768 tokens, against 8,192 for Qwen Plus Character (Japanese) and 4,096 for SOLAR 10.7B Instruct v1.0. Maximum output per response: Qwen Plus Character (Japanese) up to 512, SOLAR 10.7B Instruct v1.0 up to 4,096, solar-mini up to 4,096 tokens.
Which can read images, PDFs, audio or video?
Qwen Plus Character (Japanese) accepts text; SOLAR 10.7B Instruct v1.0 accepts text; solar-mini accepts text. They handle the same number of input types.
Are any of these open source?
SOLAR 10.7B Instruct v1.0 publishes its weights (CC-BY-NC-4.0) and can be self-hosted; Qwen Plus Character (Japanese) and solar-mini is proprietary.
Which is newer?
solar-mini is the newest, released Jun 12, 2024. Qwen Plus Character (Japanese) came out Jan 2024; SOLAR 10.7B Instruct v1.0 came out Dec 12, 2023. Knowledge cutoff: Qwen Plus Character (Japanese) Apr 2024, solar-mini Sep 2024.
How do you decide the winner?
Each model gets a 0–100 score on capability (50%, independent benchmark results); price (25%, blended price per million tokens (3 input : 1 output), log scale); inputs & features (15%, image, PDF, audio and video input, tool calling, structured output and reasoning); context window (10%, maximum tokens per request, log scale). Dimensions missing for any model are dropped and the remaining weights rescaled, so every model is judged on the same evidence. Specs and prices come from public model listings and the labs’ own API pages; capability scores come from independent benchmark runs. Data updated Nov 2, 2026.
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