# Ornith-1.5-9B vs Solar Open 2

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Ornith-1.5-9B and Solar Open 2 across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/ornith-1-5-9b-vs-solar-open-2
- Last updated: September 10, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 4
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5

## Quick Verdict

Pick Ornith-1.5-9B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Solar Open 2 only makes more sense when its price, context window, or workload-specific category wins matter more than the overall score.

## Summary

- Ornith-1.5-9B leads overall 34 to 0.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is HLE w/o tools in Knowledge, with scores of 20.2% and 28.8%.
- Solar Open 2 also has the larger context window at 1M.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Ornith-1.5-9B | Solar Open 2 |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Ornith AI | Upstage |
| Type | Open Weight | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 262K | 1M |
| Overall Score | null | null |
| Benchmarks Covered | 16 | 11 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $0.00 / $0.00 | $0.00 / $0.00 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Coming soon
- Ornith-1.5-9B public-lane score: 44.4 (Estimated · #88/152)
- Solar Open 2 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Ornith-1.5-9B | Solar Open 2 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 46.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE w/ tools | 30.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MCP Atlas | 54.2% | 58.2% | Solar Open 2 |
| Toolathlon-Verified | 41.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| WideResearch | 59.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BrowseComp | 56.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Claw-Eval | 66.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| terminalBenchHard | Coming soon | 28.3% | Coming soon |
| APEX-Agents | Coming soon | 16.6% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Coming soon
- Ornith-1.5-9B public-lane score: 46.2 (Estimated · #83/151)
- Solar Open 2 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Ornith-1.5-9B | Solar Open 2 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 46.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Verified | 70.6% | 70.4% | Ornith-1.5-9B |
| SWE-bench Pro | 47.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE Multilingual | 54.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| NL2Repo | 32.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | Coming soon | 92.4% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Coming soon
- Ornith-1.5-9B public-lane score: 42.8 (Estimated · #120/183)
- Solar Open 2 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Ornith-1.5-9B | Solar Open 2 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 86.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA-D | 86.4% | 86.3% | Ornith-1.5-9B |
| HLE | 20.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE w/o tools | 20.2% | 28.8% | Solar Open 2 |
| MMLU-Pro | Coming soon | 86.2% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Coming soon
- Ornith-1.5-9B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Solar Open 2 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Ornith-1.5-9B | Solar Open 2 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | Coming soon | 80% | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Coming soon
- Ornith-1.5-9B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Solar Open 2 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Ornith-1.5-9B | Solar Open 2 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| HMMT Feb 2026 | Coming soon | 93.9% | Coming soon |
| AIME26 | Coming soon | 95.7% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, Ornith-1.5-9B or Solar Open 2?

Ornith-1.5-9B is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### How many benchmarks does Ornith-1.5-9B cover on BenchLM?

Ornith-1.5-9B currently has 16 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

### How many benchmarks does Solar Open 2 cover on BenchLM?

Solar Open 2 currently has 11 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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