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StepFunReleased Sep 16, 2026Closed weightsstep-5-preview

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Reasoning
yes, with effort levels
Context
1M tokens
Max output
64K tokens
Input
text, image, video
API features
tools, structured outputs, JSON mode, logprobs
StepFun's API
yes

Read Oct 23, 06:00 UTC from the hosts' published offers and OpenRouter, spec sheet from StepFun

Lowest input, per M$1.00at StepFun
Cheapest cache, per M$0.10at StepFun
Fastest104 tok/sat StepFun, on OpenRouter
Providers2serve this version
Sorted by cache price
ProviderInputOutputCache ↑tok/sFirst tokenUptime 24hChecked
StepFun$1.00$2.70$0.101043.51 s100%Oct 23
Novita AI$1.00$2.70$0.10———Oct 23

2 of 2 providers · prices per million tokens, read Oct 23, 06:00 UTC · speed: OpenRouter, median of the last 30 min, read Oct 23, 06:00 UTC · uptime: OpenRouter, last 24 h

ProviderWeightsContextMax outputToolsStructured outputsReasoning
StepFunfp81M64Kyesyesyes
Novita AI—1M64K———

As served by each host and declared to OpenRouter; not verified by us · weights: the precision the host declares

Step 5 Preview spec sheet, field by field, with sources

Step 5 Preview spec sheetmaker-declared

What StepFun declares about the model itself — read from its own weights repository and documentation, not from any host. What each endpoint actually serves is in the pricing above: the two can differ, and both are true.

Context window
1,000,000 tokens
Parameters
not published by the maker
Active experts
not published by the maker
Weight precision
not applicable — no weights publishedcurated
License
Proprietary — API onlycuratedScope: the licence on the published weights, and nothing else. It is not the maker's acceptable-use policy, which is a separate document, and it is not the contract you sign with whichever host you call — hosts set their own terms, which this index does not read.
Knowledge cutoff
not published by the maker
Modalities
text · image · video → text
Max output (official)
64,000 tokens
Release date
not published by the maker
Maker lifecycle status
not published by the maker

platform.stepfun.ai · maker's documentation · read 2026-10-12 · 4 of 10 fields published by the maker

ProviderChatbot 1,000 in / 500 outRAG / long context 8,000 in / 500 outBatch summarize 4,000 in / 1,000 out
StepFun$2.35$9.35$6.70
Novita AI$2.35$9.35$6.70

What each host bills for 1,000 requests of a representative job

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