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StepFun: Step 5 Preview

stepfun/step-5-preview

Model weights

Step 5 Preview is StepFun's flagship model for agentic work, built on a sparse Mixture-of-Experts architecture (27B active / 600B total parameters). It performs strongly in software engineering and professional knowledge work, with particular strength in finance.

It is designed for extended tasks that span large codebases and documents, using tools and refining results over multiple steps.

Modalities
In / out price
$1 / $2.70per 1M
Context
1.0M
Released
Oct 8, 2026

Providers

Different companies host the same model. OpenRouter routes your request to one of them based on the routing mode you pick: Balanced (price + speed), Nitro (fastest), or Floor (cheapest).

Pricing

The average price customers actually pay for this model, next to the prices providers post. Caching and discounts mean the price actually paid is often well below the listed one.

Weighted average

Input
$0.145/M tokens
Output
$2.70/M tokens
Price history
No effective price data for this selection

Performance

Throughput is how fast the model writes (tokens per second — higher is better). Latency is total round-trip time (lower is better). TTFT is time-to-first-token — how long before you see anything appear (lower is better).

Throughput
104tok/s

P50, best across providers

Latency
3.50s

P50, best provider

Uptime

Uptime is the percentage of the past 3 days that at least one provider was responding to requests. Availability is the percentage of time that inference was successfully served. OpenRouter continuously monitors and uses the next-best provider when one returns an error.

Uptime (3d)The model was reachable. Request routed to a provider.
100.00%
Availability (3d)The model returned inference from any provider. Errors and empty responses count against it.
35.43%

Availability over the last 3 days

Last 72 hours
Availability 35.43%
3 Days Ago2 Days AgoYesterdayNow

Availability over the last 24 hours

OpenRouter Availability
98.11%
Without Routing
96.99%

When an error occurs in an upstream provider, we can recover by routing to another healthy provider, if your request filters allow it. You can access per-provider uptime data programmatically through the Endpoints API. Learn more about our load balancing and provider routing options.

Benchmarks

Scores on standardized evaluations and this model’s own outputs on shared benchmark prompts. Higher percentages are better — and each rank shows where this model lands among the models evaluated on that source.

Benchmark score summary for StepFun: Step 5 Preview (Artificial Analysis and Vals AI)
SourceBenchmarkScore
Artificial AnalysisStep 5 Preview Intelligence Index28.5
Artificial AnalysisStep 5 Preview HLE46.5%
Artificial AnalysisStep 5 Preview AA-LCR88.3%
Artificial AnalysisStep 5 Preview GDPval-AA54.5%
Artificial AnalysisStep 5 Preview CritPt20.9%
Artificial AnalysisStep 5 Preview SciCode58.9%
Artificial AnalysisStep 5 Preview Terminal-Bench 4.033.3%
Artificial AnalysisStep 5 Preview AA-Omniscience Accuracy36.4%
Artificial AnalysisStep 5 Preview AA-Omniscience Non-Hallucination Rate68.7%
Vals AIStep 5 Preview BioMysteryBench67.4%
Vals AIStep 5 Preview Code Migration v1.147.0%
Vals AIStep 5 Preview EMB v1.169.6%
Vals AIStep 5 Preview Finance Agent v2.158.9%
Vals AIStep 5 Preview Vals Finance Index55.4%
Vals AIStep 5 Preview HLAB-Vals-1.112.9%
Vals AIStep 5 Preview IOI38.1%
Vals AIStep 5 Preview Vals Legal Index70.2%
Vals AIStep 5 Preview Legal Research Bench40.4%
Vals AIStep 5 Preview MysteryMechanism18.5%
Vals AIStep 5 Preview ProofBench v1.142.0%
Vals AIStep 5 Preview Public Benefits Bench v1.158.1%
Vals AIStep 5 Preview Vals Science Index29.6%
Vals AIStep 5 Preview SRE Bench0.4%
Vals AIStep 5 Preview SWE-bench Multimodal40.8%
Vals AIStep 5 Preview Tax Agent Bench27.3%
Vals AIStep 5 Preview Terminal-Bench 4.031.8%
Vals AIStep 5 Preview Terminal-Bench-Science2.9%
Vals AIStep 5 Preview Vals Index54.8%
Vals AIStep 5 Preview Vibe Code Bench v1.170.4%

Apps

Public apps that send the most traffic to this model. Good signal for what real production workloads look like — and a hint at which use cases this model is best suited for.

1.
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OpenClaw
6.29Ttokens
2.
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Hermes Agent
1.86Ttokens
3.
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Kilo Code
299Btokens
4.
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Cline
61.7Btokens
5.
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Nous Research API
17.3Btokens
Top 5 Apps
541B
Rest of OpenRouter
340B

Activity

Token volume and request traffic to this model over time.

API

Drop-in code to call this model. OpenRouter's API is OpenAI-compatible — most SDKs work by just swapping the base URL. The only thing that changes between models is the model slug below.

Not currently available through EU in-region routing. In-region routing docs

Frequently asked questions