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StepFun · Step 5

Step 5 Preview

Closed weightsPreviewNewproprietary (open weights announced for 2026-10-15; license not yet published)

StepFun's flagship 600B/27B-active MoE agentic reasoning model with 1M context and text/image/video input, API-only in preview with open weights promised for mid-October 2026.

AA Intelligence
43.7#15 of 142
Input / output per 1M
$1.00/ $2.70
Output speed
77tok/s
Context window
1M tokens

Composite indexes

  • Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index#15 of 142
    44independentv4.3.2Artificial Analysis: Step 5 Preview ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 58

Coding

  • Terminal-Bench 4.0#14 of 88
    33.3%independentAAArtificial Analysis: Step 5 Preview ↗

    Leader: Claude Mythos 5.1 at 60.9%

  • SciCode#8 of 94
    58.9%independentAAArtificial Analysis: Step 5 Preview ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 66.9%

Agents and tool use

  • GDPval-AA#16 of 103
    1566independentGDPval-AA v2.1Artificial Analysis: Step 5 Preview ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 1846

Reasoning and knowledge

  • Humanity’s Last Exam#17 of 147
    46.5%independentAA, no toolsArtificial Analysis: Step 5 Preview ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 61.4%

  • CritPt#14 of 139
    20.9%independentAAArtificial Analysis: Step 5 Preview ↗

    Leader: GPT-5.6 Sol at 32.3%

Vision and long context

  • AA Long Context Reasoning#2 of 139
    88.3%independentAAArtificial Analysis: Step 5 Preview ↗

    Leader: Kimi K3 at 88.7%

  • MMMU-Pro#31 of 72
    76.4%independentAAArtificial Analysis: Step 5 Preview ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 87.7%

Other published results

ResultScoreReported bySource
AA-Omniscience Index · AA16.4 index (-100..100)independentArtificial Analysis: Step 5 Preview ↗
DeepSWE v1.167.7%vendorMarkTechPost: StepFun launches Step 5 Preview (StepFun-reported figures) ↗
FrontierFinance · high effort66.4%vendorMarkTechPost: StepFun launches Step 5 Preview (StepFun-reported figures) ↗
DRACO · high effort83.3%vendorMarkTechPost: StepFun launches Step 5 Preview (StepFun-reported figures) ↗
StepCodeBench49%vendorMarkTechPost: StepFun launches Step 5 Preview (StepFun-reported figures) ↗
ProgramBench · as reported by StepFun; metric may differ from other labs' ProgramBench figures80.5%vendorMarkTechPost: StepFun launches Step 5 Preview (StepFun-reported figures) ↗

Specs

Released
September 20, 2026
Parameters
600B total, 27B active
Size class
500B to 1T
Input
text, image, video
Output
text
Context
1M tokens
Max output
64K tokens
Cached input
$0.05 / 1M
Blended 70/30
$1.51 / 1M
First token
2.80s
  • Price: StepFun Open Platform: Pricing details ↗ Output includes reasoning tokens. Cache-miss input includes cache writes.
  • Speed: Artificial Analysis: Step 5 Preview (StepFun first-party endpoint) ↗

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