Sol High
Shares rank 42 of 72 language models by recommenders
Recommended as a sharp, reliable reasoning model that gets tasks right in one pass. Critics find the xhigh setting too slow for daily use and report uneven benchmark results.
Recommended as a sharp, reliable reasoning model that gets tasks right in one pass. Critics find the xhigh setting too slow for daily use and report uneven benchmark results.
16 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 12
- criticize it
- 4
- approval share
- 75%
Recommended in 3 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 12 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 3 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 3 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Strong preference over other models
“Sol high being a substantially better model”
Comment from 13 Aug 2026 in “Gemini 3.7 Flash” “Right now, sol-xhigh is my favorite model.”
Comment from 12 Aug 2026 in “DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813” “Agree that Sol is a great model.”
Comment from 24 Aug 2026 in “Anthropic's best AI model struggles to attract users as cheaper tools thrive” - Comment from 24 Aug 2026 in “Anthropic's best AI model struggles to attract users as cheaper tools thrive”
Gets complex tasks fully right
“completed it in one go with zero edge cases remaining.”
Comment from 8 Aug 2026 in “DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731” “nothing below that works correctly”
Comment from 12 Aug 2026 in “DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813” Comfortable for all-day use
“I could keep using these models forever even if they did not significantly improve”
Comment from 23 Aug 2026 in “Fable and the end of the free lunch” “I find I can pretty comfortable use Sol high most of the day”
Comment from 5 Sep 2026 in “GPT-6 Astra on OpenRouter”
Other language models people recommend
The four most recommended other language models, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Opus | 3,331 | 2,746 | 55% | 13 | 4 mo156 owners | — |
| OpenAI GPT | 1,205 | 987 | 55% | 13 | 6 mo47 owners | — |
| Claude Sonnet | 854 | 586 | 59% | 13 | 6 mo46 owners | — |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 828 | 223 | 79% | 8 | 1 mo24 owners | Approved |
| Sol HighThis page | 12 | 4 | 75% | 3 | — | — |
What people said
15 of the 18 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“Sol xhigh is 90% on TB2.1 but 37% on TB4.”
“extremely sharp RL-fried model”
“Can I say I've come out of this more impressed with Sol?”
“I find I can pretty comfortable use Sol high most of the day”
“Sol uses dramatically fewer output tokens than Gemini 38 flash”
“Agree that Sol is a great model.”
“My benchmark is Sol High.”
“I could keep using these models forever even if they did not significantly improve”
“Sol(xhigh) is too slow to be a daily driver.”
“Far fewer hallucinations (zero, in fact, with Sol and the right prompt)”
“Sol high being a substantially better model”
“Right now, sol-xhigh is my favorite model.”
“nothing below that works correctly”
“completed it in one go with zero edge cases remaining.”
“Still impressive as I remember models up until about the second generation of reasoning models really struggling”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.