# Upstage — Introducing Solar API Beta

- Company: Upstage (upstage.ai)
- Announced: 2024-02-22
- Category: availability-change
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://www.upstage.ai/news/solar-api-beta
- Record: https://forck.live/items/18447-introducing-solar-api-beta
- Subject: Solar Pro / Solar Mini
- Models affected: Solar
- Pricing: Free API until March 31st

Upstage released the Solar API Beta, offering free access to its Solar LLM until March 31st. The model, which topped the Open LLM Leaderboard, achieves performance comparable to GPT-3.5 with fewer parameters and 2.5x faster speeds. The API also features English-Korean translation surpassing GPT-4 and DeepL.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://www.upstage.ai/news/solar-api-beta:

> Upstage is thrilled to announce the beta release of Solar, its revolutionary Large Language Model (LLM). Until March 31st, developers and businesses can access Solar's powerful capabilities through a free API, unlocking the potential to transform their operations.

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Record: https://forck.live/items/18447-introducing-solar-api-beta
Catalogue: https://forck.live/llms.txt
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