The outcome

Get into the official Upstage experience with the right account and a setup you understand.

Upstage is a AI API platform for Solar language models, reasoning, document parsing and OCR, structured extraction, classification, embeddings, and agent workflows. Building language and document automation with Solar models, structured generation, document digitization, information extraction, classification, semantic retrieval, and agent APIs. This guide narrows that broad capability into one repeatable outcome, with checkpoints that keep the source material and your judgment in the loop.

Before you begin

Set the boundary before the tool starts.

Choose one real task, identify who will use the result, and decide what evidence or test will make the result acceptable. Gather only the source material needed for that task. If the work contains confidential, personal, regulated, or client-owned information, confirm that the platform and account are approved before sharing it.

Troiana principle

AI should make the work easier to inspect. If the workflow removes the source, the owner, or the review step, redesign the workflow.

Step by step

A workflow you can repeat.

  1. 01

    Start at https://console.upstage.ai/ and confirm the domain before entering account or payment information.

  2. 02

    For desktop use, follow the official download link. Current availability: Upstage is managed through its browser console and accessed from server applications through REST APIs, OpenAI-compatible clients, and supported LangChain, LlamaIndex, Python, JavaScript, marketplace, and private deployment integrations..

  3. 03

    An Upstage account and server-side API key, billing and rate capacity, approved data handling and deployment, representative model or document evaluations, secure file processing, monitoring, and a rollback and deletion owner.

  4. 04

    Sign in with the account you intend to keep using, then review plan, data, notification, and permission settings.

  5. 05

    Run one low-risk test task before connecting sensitive files, repositories, or workspace data.

Working standard

What good use looks like.

  • Use official download pages.
  • Review permissions during setup.
  • Keep installers and applications updated.

Language, parsing, OCR, extraction, classification, and embedding endpoints have different inputs, limits, storage, and failure modes. Upstage's educational guidance says API data is not used for model training or service R&D, while asynchronous inputs may be stored until inference completes for up to three days and outputs for up to 30 days; console inputs may be handled differently. Confirm the current terms for the chosen service, keep keys server-side, minimize files, validate every extracted value, defend downstream systems from document injection, and delete temporary and derived data on schedule.

Official references

Check the current product documentation.

Features, plan limits, availability, and data controls change. These official pages are the starting points used for this collection.