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Step 5 Preview

CTX1.02M
Preview
83Quality
Reasoning · Vision · Tools
TextImageVideoInput$1/M
TextOutput$2.70/M

StepFun's next-generation flagship base model for coding and professional knowledge work, with native text, image, and video input and a 1M-token context window

PaidProprietary1006/1040
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Step 5 Preview

StepFun's next-generation flagship base model for coding and professional knowledge work, with native text, image, and video input and a 1M-token context window

step-5-preview
Type
Text
Quality
83 · Top 17% on the LMArena Text
Context window
1,024,000 tokens
Max output
65,536 tokens
Input price
$1.00 / 1M tokens
Output price
$2.70 / 1M tokens
Cache read
$0.05 / 1M tokens
Cache write
—
Parameters
604B (604,339,504,832)
Downloads
1.2K in the last 30 days
Likes
100
Access to weights
Open download
Released
Sep 16, 2026
Knowledge cutoff
—
Takes in
Text, Image, Video
Puts out
Text
Reasoning
Yes
Tool calling
Yes
Structured output
Yes
File attachments
Yes
Access
Paid
License
Proprietary
Rarity
Uncommon
Set number
1006/1040

Weights aren’t public. Use is governed by StepFun’s terms. Specs from models.dev, downloads from Hugging Face, last changed Oct 18, 2026. Official source: platform.stepfun.ai.

How good is it?

Public leaderboard scores for Step 5 Preview, refreshed daily from Epoch AI and LMArena.

Top 17% of the 416 models on the LMArena Text: #73.

Quality is the share of a leaderboard’s models this one beats, from 0 to 100. Chat models are rated on Epoch AI’s Capabilities Index when it lists them, otherwise on LMArena; image and video models on LMArena’s image and video arenas.

Leaderboards

Scores from LMArena, licensed CC BY 4.0. Boards list models under their own names, so a close match is shown with the name it was scored under. Credits

Where to run it

17 providers sell Step 5 Preview through an API. Prices are per million tokens, cheapest first.

API providers

ProviderInputOutputContext
CommandCodeCheapest paidstepfun/Step-5-Preview$1.00$2.701M
Deep Infrastepfun-ai/Step-5-Preview$1.00$2.701.05M
Eden AIdeepinfra/stepfun-ai/Step-5-Preview$1.00$2.701.05M
EmpirioLabs AIstep-5-preview$1.00$2.701.02M
Kilo Gatewaystepfun/step-5-preview$1.00$2.701M
NanoGPTstepfun/step-5-preview$1.00$2.701M
Novita AIstepfun/step-5-preview$1.00$2.701M
OpenCode Gostep-5-preview$1.00$2.701M
OpenRouterstepfun/step-5-preview$1.00$2.701.05M
Requestystep-5-preview$1.00$2.701.05M
Show 7 more providers
ProviderInputOutputContext
StepFun (Global)Officialstep-5-preview$1.00$2.701.02M
Vercel AI Gatewaystepfun/step-5-preview$1.00$2.701.05M
StepFun (China)step-5-preview$0.96$2.741M
AIHubMixstep-5-preview$1.08$3.091M
AI/ML APIstepfun/step-5-preview$1.38$3.711M
StepFun Step Plan (China)step-5-preview——1M
StepFun Step Plan (Global)step-5-preview——1M

From models.dev and Hugging Face, checked daily. Resellers’ listings can lag behind their price pages, so confirm with the provider before you commit.

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