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Solar model + Document AI. $10 free credits.

LLMest. 2022 · Seoul, South Korea
88
/ 100 APIVault Score

// At a glance

Free Tier
$10 credits · no card
Category
LLM
Credit Card
Not required
Last Verified
2m ago

// Free tier details

Available Models

Solar ProSolar MiniDocument AI

Monthly Requests

$10 free credits on signup

No credit card needed
No phone verification

// Quick start

300">"text-purple-400">from openai 300">"text-purple-400">import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    api_key=300">"YOUR_UPSTAGE_KEY",
    base_url=300">"https://api.upstage.ai/v1",
)

response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model=300">"solar-pro",
    messages=[{300">"role": 300">"user", 300">"content": 300">"Hello."}],
)

print(response.choices[0].message.content)

// Overview

Upstage's Solar 10.7B punches above its weight on most benchmarks. Also provides industry-leading document parsing (Document AI) for PDF/OCR tasks.

// Pros

  • Solar Pro is punches above its size class
  • Excellent Document AI for PDFs
  • OpenAI-compatible

// Cons

  • Credits expire
  • Smaller community

// Score breakdown

Reliability (35%) (from 2m ago health check)100/100
Free Tier Generosity (30%) (computed from quota, no-CC, no-phone fields)85/100
Documentation (20%) (human rating)84/100
Popularity (15%) (GitHub stars (log-normalised), or manual baseline)72/100

Methodology: apivault.dev/methodology

// Best for

PDF processingDocument extractionOCR pipelines