Cost
$1.03per task
Cost per task. One Intelligence Index task at list price, every token counted.
Step model by StepFun
StepFun's flagship model for agentic work, a sparse mixture-of-experts model with 600B parameters and 27B active, with text, image and video input and a 1M-token context, released as a preview. Weights under the StepFun Model License 1.0.
Where it sits in StepFun's lineup
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Among the 40 current releases on this chart, Step 5 Preview ranks first of 38 on Long context and 9th of 37 on Code. Science is StepFun's own figure on GPQA Diamond, marked on the chart. It ranks lowest on Answers in full, 22nd of 25 and Multimodal, 20th of 24. Math, Computer use and Instruction following: not yet published by StepFun or any independent evaluator, checked Nov 2, 2026.
Each axis is one public benchmark at one setting, on its own fixed 0 to 100 scale, so adding a model never moves another. A dotted bridge crosses a missing result, which is never a zero. A hollow mark is a result from another source: the maker's own figure or another lab's run, where the benchmark's usual source has not tested the model yet. The readout names it.
On the chart
Prices and speeds as of Oct 29, 2026.
Step 5 Preview on each axis9 of 12 with a result
The share of Terminal-Bench 4.0's long terminal tasks the model finishes on its own: services, kernels, proofs and data pipelines, graded on the final artifact with no partial credit.
Terminal-Bench 4.0, pass@1 averaged over 3 runs, mini-swe-agent harness
The share of SciCode's scientific programming subproblems the model's code solves on the first attempt.
SciCode, subproblem accuracy, pass@1, highest effort run
The share of FrontierMath's held-out research-grade problems (tiers 1 to 3) the model answers correctly.
FrontierMath Tiers 1-3, accuracy, pass@1, highest effort run
The share of GPQA Diamond's graduate-level biology, chemistry and physics questions the model answers correctly.
GPQA Diamond, accuracy, pass@1, highest effort run. Where it has no run of a model, the maker's own figure or another lab's run stands in, marked with its benchmark.
The share of Humanity's Last Exam's 2,158 text-only questions, expert-written at the edge of human knowledge, the model answers correctly without tools.
Humanity's Last Exam, accuracy, text-only questions, no tools
The share of each AutomationBench task's objectives the model completes by calling REST APIs across simulated business apps (Gmail, Sheets, Slack, Salesforce, Zendesk, Jira, HubSpot), averaged over tasks. A task that breaks one of its policy guardrails scores zero.
AutomationBench-AA, score, Artificial Analysis run
How much of each OSWorld 2.1 workflow the model completes by operating a real Ubuntu desktop through screenshots, mouse and keyboard: all 108 long tasks across apps, files, mail and browsers, on the September 2026 v2.1 release of the task files. A point is the mean share of each task's weighted checks the model passes (the partial score, as a percentage). The OSWorld team's own runs come first. Where the team has not run a release, the point is another lab's run or the maker's own published figure, marked with who ran it and the benchmark it ran: OSWorld 2.1 in the maker's harness, OSWorld 2.0's offline set or the earlier OSWorld-Verified. Those points are drawn so the release has a figure, and they are not ranked against the team's runs.
OSWorld 2.1, partial score, full 108-task set, v2.1 release
The share of AA-LCR's questions the model answers correctly by reasoning across long sets of real documents, about 100K tokens each.
AA-LCR v1.1, accuracy, Artificial Analysis run
The share of MMMU-Pro's college-level questions over charts, diagrams and photos the model answers correctly.
MMMU-Pro, overall accuracy, no tools
The share of AA-Omniscience's 6,000 knowledge questions across 42 economically relevant topics the model answers correctly from memory, without search.
AA-Omniscience Accuracy, accuracy, Artificial Analysis run
The share of SpeechMap's 2,120 sensitive and controversial but legal requests the model answers in full: arguments, essays and explanations on contested themes in politics, religion, race, sex, history and similar topics, four wordings per theme across 530 themes. SpeechMap's judge rates each response complete, evasive (hedged or redirected), a denial, or an error (the provider's API blocked the request). Only complete answers count, so the point is the share answered in full: 100 minus the share hedged, refused or blocked by the provider. Higher means more lawful requests answered in full. The share blocked at the provider is printed apart in the table, because an API error is not the model declining. Where SpeechMap runs a release both with reasoning off and with reasoning on (a -reasoning or -thinking entry), the reasoning-on entry is used; a release with one entry uses that entry.
SpeechMap, % Complete over 2,120 contested requests, reasoning-on entry
The share of MultiChallenge's multi-turn conversations in which the model keeps every instruction it was given earlier in the conversation.
MultiChallenge, accuracy, Scale AI run
Cost, speed, capacity, quality and accuracy for Step 5 Preview, with where each figure sits among the 40 models GILD tracks. These measures stand beside the chart and never feed it.
$1.03per task
Cost per task. One Intelligence Index task at list price, every token counted.
194tokens a second
Output speed. How fast it writes once the answer starts.
1Mtokens
Context window. The most one request can hold, as the maker states it.
43.7of 100
Intelligence Index. One composite score across independent evaluations.
31.3%wrong when it should say “I don’t know”
Hallucination rate. Of the questions it can't get right, how often it answers anyway. Lower is better. Run at reasoning on.
4of 19 routes
Routes offering it. Of the clouds, gateways and coding products GILD tracks, those offering it today.
Figures from Artificial Analysis, OpenRouter and GILD's route matrix, read Oct 27 to 29, 2026. Each measure's definition and source open under . Not yet published for Step 5 Preview: Cached input and Epoch Capabilities Index.
| Axis | Benchmark and setting | Step 5 Preview | Run | Source | Date |
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| Agentic coding | Terminal-Bench 4.0Pass@1 averaged over 3 runs, mini-swe-agent harness. Vals.ai ranked it 22nd of 58 on its leaderboard of Oct 29, 2026. | 31.8% | Step 5 PreviewEffort: not published. Harness: mini-swe-agent.Not drawn: Artificial Analysis 33.3% in another lab's harness, Oct 29, 2026. Source | Vals.ai | Oct 29, 2026 |
| Code | SciCodeSubproblem accuracy, pass@1, highest effort run | 58.9% | Step 5 PreviewEffort: reasoning on. Harness: none. | Artificial Analysis | Oct 29, 2026 |
| Math | FrontierMath Tiers 1-3Accuracy, pass@1, highest effort run | Not yet published by StepFun or any independent evaluator, checked Nov 2, 2026 | |||
| Science | GPQA DiamondAccuracy as StepFun reports it, High reasoning. StepFun's own figure from its launch table, at High reasoning, its highest setting. Epoch AI has not run it.Stands in for GPQA Diamond, accuracy, pass@1, highest effort run, which has no run of Step 5 Preview yet. | 93.5% | Step 5 Preview (High)Effort: high. Harness: not stated by StepFun. | StepFunReported by StepFun | Oct 29, 2026 |
| Hard reasoning | Humanity's Last ExamAccuracy, text-only questions, no tools | 46.5% | Step 5 PreviewEffort: reasoning on. Harness: none. | Artificial Analysis | Oct 29, 2026 |
| Tool use | AutomationBench-AAScore, Artificial Analysis run | 51% | Step 5 PreviewEffort: reasoning on. Harness: Artificial Analysis AutomationBench harness. | Artificial Analysis | Oct 29, 2026 |
| Computer use | OSWorld 2.1Partial score, full 108-task set, v2.1 release | Not yet published by StepFun or any independent evaluator, checked Nov 2, 2026 | |||
| Long context | AA-LCR v1.1Accuracy, Artificial Analysis run | 88.3% | Step 5 PreviewEffort: reasoning on. Harness: none. | Artificial Analysis | Oct 29, 2026 |
| Multimodal | MMMU-ProOverall accuracy, no tools | 76.4% | Step 5 PreviewEffort: reasoning on. Harness: none.Not drawn: StepFun 76% in its maker's own harness, Oct 29, 2026. Source | Artificial Analysis | Oct 29, 2026 |
| Factuality | AA-Omniscience AccuracyAccuracy, Artificial Analysis run | 36.4%Hallucination rate 31.3% in the same run (lower is better) | Step 5 PreviewEffort: reasoning on. Harness: none. | Artificial Analysis | Oct 29, 2026 |
| Answers in full | SpeechMap% Complete over 2,120 contested requests, reasoning-on entry. SpeechMap ran it at medium reasoning through OpenRouter: 34.5% denied, 1.0% evaded, and 4.8% stopped by the provider's content filter. | 59.7%4.8% of requests failed at the provider and count against it | Effort: medium. Harness: none. | SpeechMap.AI | Oct 29, 2026 |
| Instruction following | MultiChallengeAccuracy, Scale AI run | Not yet published by StepFun or any independent evaluator, checked Nov 2, 2026 |
57 models. A maker's own figure and another lab's run are marked with their benchmark; a missing result reads "Not yet published", never zero.
| Model | Agentic coding | Code | Math | Science | Hard reasoning | Tool use | Computer use | Long context | Multimodal | Factuality | Answers in full | Instructions |
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| Step 5 Preview | 31.8% | 58.9% | Not yet published | 93.5%Reported by StepFunGPQA Diamond | 46.5% | 51% | Not yet published | 88.3% | 76.4% | 36.4% | 59.7% | Not yet published |
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| Claude Haiku 5.5 | 36.4% | 55% | 75.1% | 89.6% | 44.4% | 35.4% | 72.4%Reported by AnthropicOSWorld 2.1 | 82.7% | Not yet published | 34.7% | 78.8% | 67.7% |
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| Claude Sonnet 5.5 | 64.1% | 61% | 88.8% | 95.6% | 55% | 71.8% | 80.1%Reported by Anthropic | 82.7% | Not yet published | 51.5% | 81.6% | Not yet published |
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| Claude Opus 5.5 | 65.2% | 66.9% | 91.2% | 90.6% | 61.4% | 69.5% | 81.8%Reported by Anthropic | 84.7% | 87.7% | 65.5% | 82.8% | Not yet published |
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| Claude Fable 5.1 | 58.1% | 63.1% | 90.2% | 93.4%Run by Vals.ai | 59.1% | 59.4% | 80.7%Reported by Anthropic | 85.3% | 86.3%Run by Moonshot AI | 68.4% | 72.4% | Not yet published |
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| Claude Opus 5 | 53.5% | 56.4% | 85.6% | 93.9% | 54.9% | 56.6% | 77.7% | 79.3% | 84.7% | 60.9% | 73.7% | Not yet published |
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| Claude Sonnet 5 | 10.6% | 54.3% | 65.6% | 80.3% | 41.3% | 36.5% | 57%Reported by Anthropic | 82% | 77.3% | 40.1% | Not yet published | Not yet published |
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| Claude Fable 5 | 41.4% | 61% | 87% | 85.9% | 55.5% | 54.1% | Not yet published | 82.3% | Not yet published | 65.4% | 64.8% | 63.5%Run by Artificial AnalysisIFBench |
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| Claude Opus 4.8 | 23.2% | 54.4% | 80% | 91% | 48.7% | 45.6% | 54.8%Run by OSWorld teamOSWorld 2.0 | 77.7% | Not yet published | 48.8% | 67.4% | 62.2%Run by Artificial AnalysisIFBench |
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| Claude Opus 4.7 | Not yet published | 54.5% | 70.2% | 86.4% | 42.3% | Not yet published | 48.9%Run by OSWorld teamOSWorld 2.0 | 78.7% | 78.8% | 48.9% | 70.2% | 58.6%Run by Artificial AnalysisIFBench |
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| Claude Sonnet 4.6 | 3%Run by Artificial AnalysisTerminal-Bench 4.0 | 50.1% | 71.1%Run by Epoch AIOTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 78.8% | 33.6% | 20.1% | 41.5%Run by OSWorld teamOSWorld 2.0 | 80% | 73.3% | 40.9% | 35.8% | 56.6%Run by Artificial AnalysisIFBench |
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| Claude Opus 4.6 | Not yet published | Not yet published | 66% | 88.4% | 39.9% | Not yet published | Not yet published | 78% | 75.4% | 47% | 59.9% | 37.2% |
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| Claude Opus 4.5 | Not yet published | Not yet published | 34.4% | 86% | 30.1% | Not yet published | Not yet published | 77.3% | 74% | 46.6% | 57.5% | 59% |
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| Claude Haiku 4.5 | Not yet published | 42.2% | 66.7%Run by Epoch AIOTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 71.2% | 10.4% | 3.2% | Not yet published | 74.3% | 58.6% | 18% | 24.7% | 50.5% |
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| Claude Sonnet 4.5 | Not yet published | 45.7% | 23.9% | 82.3% | 17.8% | 14.1% | Not yet published | 72.3% | 68.7% | 32.9% | 31.4% | 55.3% |
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| GPT-6.1 Terra | 49.5% | 55.1% | 90.9% | 94.3% | 46.2% | 60.2% | 74.2%Reported by OpenAIOSWorld 2.1 | 82.7% | 84.7% | 47.6% | Not yet published | 74.2% |
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| GPT-6.1 Sol | 55.1% | 54.2% | 93.7% | 95.4% | 52.9% | 64.9% | 78%Reported by OpenAIOSWorld 2.1 | 83% | 86% | 61.8% | 69.5% | 82% |
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| GPT-6 Luna | 13.6% | 54.6% | 78.9% | 90.5% | 38.5% | 53.2% | 48.9%Run by AnthropicOSWorld 2.1 | 83.3% | 79.7% | 39.6% | 63.4% | Not yet published |
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| GPT-6 Astra | 59.6% | 56.5% | 93.7% | 95.8% | 54.7% | 68.5% | 75.8%Run by Meta | 80.7% | 86.9% | 61.6% | 68.2% | Not yet published |
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| GPT-5.6 Sol | 37.9% | 57.1% | 89.1% | 93.5% | 49.5% | 60.1% | 62.7%Run by OSWorld teamOSWorld 2.0 | 84% | 83.4% | 69.7%Run by Epoch AISimpleQA Verified | Not yet published | 72.7%Run by Artificial AnalysisIFBench |
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| GPT-5.6 Terra | 22.7% | 55% | 86% | 93.3% | 42.9% | 59.6% | Not yet published | 83% | 80.7% | 42.3% | Not yet published | 71.2%Run by Artificial AnalysisIFBench |
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| GPT-5.6 Luna | 11.6% | 53.6% | 82.1% | 91.6% | 39.5% | 50.2% | Not yet published | 83.7% | 78.6% | 41%Run by Epoch AISimpleQA Verified | Not yet published | Not yet published |
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| GPT-5.5 | 14.6%Run by Artificial AnalysisTerminal-Bench 4.0 | 55.8% | 85.3% | 93.5%Run by Artificial Analysis | 45.8% | 47.3% | 49.5%Run by OSWorld teamOSWorld 2.0 | 84.3% | 79.9% | 63%Run by Epoch AISimpleQA Verified | Not yet published | 75.9%Run by Artificial AnalysisIFBench |
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| GPT-5.4 | Not yet published | Not yet published | 78.6% | 93.3% | 43.7% | Not yet published | Not yet published | 82% | 78.4% | Not yet published | Not yet published | 73.9%Run by Artificial AnalysisIFBench |
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| gpt-oss-120b | 14.2%Run by Terminal-Bench (via Epoch AI)Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 34% | 88.9%Run by Epoch AIOTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 75.8% | 19.6% | 0.2% | Not yet published | 52% | Not yet published | 16.8%Reported by OpenAISimpleQA | 36.3% | 45.3% |
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| GPT-6 Sol | 44.4% | 57.6% | 89.8% | 94.3% | 47.9% | 61.6% | 64.4%Reported by OpenAIOSWorld 2.0 | 83.7% | 82.9% | 54.5% | 64% | Not yet published |
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| GPT-5.3-Codex | Not yet published | Not yet published | Not yet published | 91.5%Run by Artificial Analysis | 42.5% | Not yet published | Not yet published | 83.3% | 78.5% | Not yet published | Not yet published | 75.4%Run by Artificial AnalysisIFBench |
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| Gemini 4 Argon | 57.6% | 61.8% | 86% | 96.4% | 57.1% | 77.5% | 69.2%Reported by GoogleOSWorld 2.0 | 79.7% | Not yet published | 48.3% | 87% | 78.7% |
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| Gemini 3.8 Flash | 19.7% | 56.6% | 68.4% | 95.4% | 47.8% | 59.9% | 59%Reported by GoogleOSWorld 2.0 | 81.3% | 85.6% | 50.5% | 86.1% | Not yet published |
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| Gemma 4 31B | Not yet published | 45.5% | Not yet published | 85.7%Run by Artificial AnalysisGPQA Diamond | 23.6% | 4.9% | Not yet published | 69.7% | 73.4% | 10.4%Run by Epoch AISimpleQA Verified | 82.3% | 75.6%Run by Artificial AnalysisIFBench |
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| Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview | 2.5% | 58.7% | 59.6% | 94.4% | 47% | 35.4% | Not yet published | 82% | 82.4% | 54.9% | 59.9% | 71.4% |
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| Gemini 3.6 Flash | 7.1%Run by Artificial AnalysisTerminal-Bench 4.0 | 53.4% | 58.9% | 94.1% | 40.8% | 53% | 83%Reported by GoogleOSWorld-Verified | 80% | 83.2% | 66.2%Run by Epoch AISimpleQA Verified | 87.2% | Not yet published |
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| DeepSeek V4.1 Flash | 31.8% | 55.9% | 71.2% | 93.2% | 43.3% | 66.6% | 69.3%Run by Moonshot AIOSWorld 2.1 | 82.7% | 80.6% | 39.6% | Not yet published | 74.9% |
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| DeepSeek V4 Pro | 14.1% | 51% | 64.6% | 91.7% | 41% | 56.7% | Not yet published | 80.3% | Not yet published | 45.2% | 72% | Not yet published |
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| Kimi K3.1 Pro | 63.6% | 60.8% | Not yet published | 94.2%Reported by Moonshot AI | 52.5% | 73.3% | 79.6%Reported by Moonshot AIOSWorld 2.1 | 86.3% | 83.9% | 48.9% | Not yet published | Not yet published |
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| Kimi K3 | 17.2% | 59.5% | 72.2% | 93.1% | 46.9% | 58.3% | Not yet published | 88.7% | 80.5% | 50.6%Run by Epoch AISimpleQA Verified | 65.9% | Not yet published |
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| Kimi K2.7 Code | 1%Run by Artificial AnalysisTerminal-Bench 4.0 | 47.8% | 54% | 87.9% | 35% | 24.5% | Not yet published | 79.3% | Not yet published | 36.5%Run by Epoch AISimpleQA Verified | Not yet published | 63.1%Run by Artificial AnalysisIFBench |
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| Mistral Large 4 | 24.7%Run by Artificial AnalysisTerminal-Bench 4.0 | Not yet published | Not yet published | Not yet published | Not yet published | 57.8% | Not yet published | Not yet published | Not yet published | 26% | Not yet published | Not yet published |
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| Mistral Medium 3.5 | 0%Run by Artificial AnalysisTerminal-Bench 4.0 | 40.2% | Not yet published | 74.8%Run by Artificial AnalysisGPQA Diamond | 13.8% | 6.3% | Not yet published | 69.3% | 64.9% | 23% | 70.5% | 68.8%Run by Artificial AnalysisIFBench |
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| Grok 4.7 | 28.8% | 57.4% | 53% | 92.7% | 43.1% | 65.6% | Not yet published | 76.7% | Not yet published | 42.7% | 64.1% | Not yet published |
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| Grok 4.6 | 17.2% | 56.5% | 66% | 93.2% | 42.9% | 66.7% | Not yet published | 80.3% | Not yet published | 48.9%Run by Epoch AISimpleQA Verified | 83.6% | Not yet published |
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| Grok 4.5 | 8.6% | 55% | 57.2% | 93.4% | 42.7% | 57.9% | Not yet published | 79.3% | 80.4% | 48.3%Run by Epoch AISimpleQA Verified | 93.1% | Not yet published |
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| MiniMax M3.1 Flash | 25.3% | 53.4% | Not yet published | Not yet published | 48% | 72.5% | 61.7%Reported by MiniMaxOSWorld 2.0 | 79.7% | 79.1% | 45.1% | Not yet published | Not yet published |
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| Mercury 3 | 3% | Not yet published | Not yet published | Not yet published | Not yet published | Not yet published | Not yet published | Not yet published | Not yet published | Not yet published | Not yet published | Not yet published |
| GLM-5.3-Flash | 37.4% | 51.6% | 55.8% | 90.2% | 39.9% | 60.4% | 59.1%Reported by Z.aiOSWorld 2.0 | 80% | 86%Run by Vals.aiMMMU-Pro | 28.2% | 65.4% | Not yet published |
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| GLM-5.3 | 38.9% | 59% | 68.8% | 90.9% | 42.3% | 62.2% | Not yet published | 79.7% | Not yet published | 32.3% | 71.5% | Not yet published |
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| GLM-5.2 | 1%Run by Artificial AnalysisTerminal-Bench 4.0 | 51.2% | 59.2% | Not yet published | 41.1% | 28.4% | Not yet published | 78.3% | Not yet published | 34.2%Run by Epoch AISimpleQA Verified | Not yet published | 73.3%Run by Artificial AnalysisIFBench |
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| Muse Spark Open | 6.6% | 58.4% | 69.8% | 88.6% | 43.9% | 49.7% | 80.4%Reported by MetaOSWorld-Verified | 78.3% | 80.9% | 42% | Not yet published | 74.2% |
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| Muse Wonder | 49.5% | 60.3% | 82.1% | Not yet published | 50.1% | 68.1% | 72.6%Reported by Meta | 80.7% | Not yet published | 38% | 42.7% | Not yet published |
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| Muse Spark 1.3 | 10.6% | 58.8% | 74% | 93.5%Run by Artificial AnalysisGPQA Diamond | 48.7% | 57.9% | 69.6% | 83% | 82% | 38% | 25.8% | Not yet published |
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| Llama 4 Scout | Not yet published | 21.3% | 7.8%Run by Epoch AIOTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 51.8% | 3.8% | 0.2% | Not yet published | 27.7% | 52.9% | Not yet published | 70.1% | 39.5%Run by Artificial AnalysisIFBench |
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| Llama 4 Maverick | Not yet published | 31.7% | 20.6%Run by Epoch AIOTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 67% | 4.9% | 0.2% | Not yet published | 50% | 62.1% | Not yet published | 58.3% | 43%Run by Artificial AnalysisIFBench |
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| Qwen3.8 27B | 5.6%Run by Artificial AnalysisTerminal-Bench 4.0 | 46.6% | Not yet published | 90.5%Run by Artificial AnalysisGPQA Diamond | 33.9% | 48.2% | 84.3%Reported by AlibabaOSWorld-Verified | 82% | 76.3% | 17.3% | Not yet published | 79.5%Reported by AlibabaIFBench |
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| Qwen3.8 Max | 38.9% | 52.1% | 65.6% | 92.3% | 43.1% | 56.2% | Not yet published | 80.3% | 82.8% | 29.5% | 65.3% | Not yet published |
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| MiMo-V2.6-Pro | 31.3% | 60.9% | Not yet published | Not yet published | 49.4% | 58.6% | 82%Reported by XiaomiOSWorld-Verified | 86.3% | Not yet published | 34.8% | 66.5% | Not yet published |
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| MiMo-V2.6-Flash | 24.2% | 51.3% | Not yet published | Not yet published | 35.1% | 64.1% | 80.8%Reported by XiaomiOSWorld-Verified | 74.3% | 73.1% | 27.2% | 66.9% | Not yet published |
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| Ling 3.1 Flash | 32.8%Run by Artificial AnalysisTerminal-Bench 4.0 | 56.8% | Not yet published | Not yet published | 43.5% | 67.5% | Not yet published | 82.3% | Not yet published | 26.5% | Not yet published | Not yet published |
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The other models in the grid have no result on Terminal-Bench 4.0 yet.
The other models in the grid have no result on SciCode yet.
The other models in the grid have no result on FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 yet.
The other models in the grid have no result on GPQA Diamond yet.
The other models in the grid have no result on Humanity's Last Exam yet.
The other models in the grid have no result on AutomationBench-AA yet.
The other models in the grid have no result on OSWorld 2.1 yet.
The other models in the grid have no result on AA-LCR v1.1 yet.
The other models in the grid have no result on MMMU-Pro yet.
The other models in the grid have no result on AA-Omniscience Accuracy yet.
The other models in the grid have no result on SpeechMap yet.
The other models in the grid have no result on MultiChallenge yet.
Cost, speed, reliability, knowledge-work and domain results for Step 5 Preview beyond the twelve chart axes, each with the run it comes from and its publisher. These stay separate measures; none is folded into the chart.
| Measure | Step 5 Preview | Run | Source | Read |
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| Context windowThe most tokens one request can hold, as the maker states it. Size alone says nothing about how well the model uses a long input; the Long context axis measures that. | 1M | Artificial Analysis | Oct 27, 2026 | |
| Max outputThe most tokens the model writes in one response. | 64K | no figure from the maker in the stored sources; OpenRouter lists 64,000 | OpenRouter | Oct 29, 2026 |
| ReadsThe kinds of input the model accepts. | Text, Images | Artificial Analysis | Oct 27, 2026 | |
| LicenceThe terms the weights or the service are offered under. | StepFun Model License 1.0 | Artificial Analysis | Oct 27, 2026 | |
| Open weightsWhether the maker publishes the weights for anyone to run. | Yes | Artificial Analysis | Oct 27, 2026 | |
| Routes offering itOf the 19 clouds, gateways and coding products GILD tracks, how many offer the release today, preview included. | 4 of 19 | GILD route matrix | Oct 29, 2026 | |
| Cost | ||||
| Answer tokens per taskLower is better. Answer tokens per Intelligence Index task, reasoning excluded. | 20,697 | Step 5 Preview | Artificial Analysis | Oct 27, 2026 |
| Cost per task, cache readsLower is better. The cache-read share of AA's cost per Intelligence Index task. | $0.62 | Step 5 Preview | Artificial Analysis | Oct 27, 2026 |
| Cost per task, cache writesLower is better. The cache-write share of AA's cost per Intelligence Index task. | $0.22 | Step 5 Preview | Artificial Analysis | Oct 27, 2026 |
| Cost per task, inputLower is better. The input-token share of AA's cost per Intelligence Index task. | $0.85 | Step 5 Preview | Artificial Analysis | Oct 27, 2026 |
| Cost per task, outputLower is better. The answer-token share of AA's cost per Intelligence Index task. | $0.17 | Step 5 Preview | Artificial Analysis | Oct 27, 2026 |
| Cost per task, reasoningLower is better. The reasoning-token share of AA's cost per Intelligence Index task. | $0.12 | Step 5 Preview | Artificial Analysis | Oct 27, 2026 |
| Cost per taskLower is better. What one Intelligence Index task cost AA at list price, input, cache, output and reasoning tokens together. | $1.03 | Step 5 Preview | Artificial Analysis | Oct 27, 2026 |
| Cost to run the indexLower is better. What the whole Intelligence Index run cost AA at list price. The runs cost from tens of dollars to about $13,000, so the axis is log from $10 to $100,000. | $1,190 | Step 5 Preview | Artificial Analysis | Oct 27, 2026 |
| Output tokens per taskLower is better. Tokens the model wrote per Intelligence Index task, reasoning included: how verbose it is. | 64,144 | Step 5 Preview | Artificial Analysis | Oct 27, 2026 |
| Reasoning tokens per taskLower is better. Reasoning tokens per Intelligence Index task. | 43,448 | Step 5 Preview | Artificial Analysis | Oct 27, 2026 |
| Speed | ||||
| End-to-end time, 100K promptLower is better. Median seconds for a whole response with a 100,000-token prompt. | 18 s | Step 5 Preview | Artificial Analysis | Oct 27, 2026 |
| End-to-end response timeLower is better. Seconds AA measures for a whole response on its standard prompt. | 14 s | Step 5 Preview | Artificial Analysis | Oct 27, 2026 |
| Time to first answer token, 100K promptLower is better. Median seconds to the first answer token with a 100,000-token prompt. | 15 s | Step 5 Preview | Artificial Analysis | Oct 27, 2026 |
| Time to first answer tokenLower is better. Seconds until the first answer token, after any reasoning, on AA's API runs. | 12 s | Step 5 Preview | Artificial Analysis | Oct 27, 2026 |
| Output speed, 100K promptMedian output tokens per second when the prompt is about 100,000 tokens long. | 174 tokens/s | Step 5 Preview | Artificial Analysis | Oct 27, 2026 |
| Output speedMedian output tokens per second on AA's API runs, with the 5th and 95th percentile when AA prints them. | 194 tokens/s | Step 5 Preview | Artificial Analysis | Oct 27, 2026 |
| Time per taskLower is better. Wall-clock seconds per Intelligence Index task. Runs take from about 15 s to about 33 min, so the axis is log from 1 s to 10,000 s. | 281 s | Step 5 Preview | Artificial Analysis | Oct 27, 2026 |
| Time to first token, 100K promptLower is better. Median seconds to the first chunk when the prompt is about 100,000 tokens long: long-input latency, separate from window size. | 4.0 s | Step 5 Preview | Artificial Analysis | Oct 27, 2026 |
| Time to first tokenLower is better. Median seconds to the first streamed chunk on AA's API runs, with the 5th and 95th percentile when AA prints them. Reasoning models spend this time thinking. | 1.3 s | Step 5 Preview | Artificial Analysis | Oct 27, 2026 |
| Reliability | ||||
| Hallucination rateLower is better. AA-Omniscience hallucination rate shows how often the model answers wrongly when it does not know and should decline. | 31.3% | Reasoning on | Artificial Analysis | Oct 29, 2026 |
| Omniscience accuracyShare of AA-Omniscience knowledge questions answered correctly. | 36.4% | Reasoning on | Artificial Analysis | Oct 29, 2026 |
| Omniscience indexAA-Omniscience index: correct answers minus wrong answers, declines neutral, -100 to 100. | 16.4 | Step 5 Preview | Artificial Analysis | Oct 27, 2026 |
| Knowledge work | ||||
| AA-BriefcaseAA-Briefcase overall Elo for long business deliverables, with AA's 95% interval. | 1,423 | Step 5 Preview | Artificial Analysis | Oct 27, 2026 |
| AnalystAgent (AA run)AA's AnalystAgent score for analyst workflows. | 35% | Step 5 Preview | Artificial Analysis | Oct 27, 2026 |
| APEX-Agents (AA run)AA's run of APEX-Agents professional tasks. | 38.0% | Step 5 Preview | Artificial Analysis | Oct 27, 2026 |
| GDP-PDF (AA run)Share of GDP-PDF document tasks where every check passes. | 14.8% | Step 5 Preview | Artificial Analysis | Oct 27, 2026 |
| GDPval-AAGDPval-AA Elo: AA's run of economically valuable knowledge-work tasks, graded pairwise, with AA's interval. | 1,594 | Step 5 Preview | Artificial Analysis | Oct 27, 2026 |
| MLCR (AA run)AA's MLCR overall score for long, multi-document reading. | 18.3% | Step 5 Preview | Artificial Analysis | Oct 27, 2026 |
| Capability beyond the chart | ||||
| AA-LCRAA long-context reasoning accuracy. | 88.3% | Step 5 Preview | Artificial Analysis | Oct 27, 2026 |
| CritPt (AA run)Share of CritPt research-level physics problems solved in AA's run. | 20.9% | Step 5 Preview | Artificial Analysis | Oct 27, 2026 |
| EnterpriseOps-Gym (AA run)AA's EnterpriseOps-Gym score for enterprise operations agents. | 47.2% | Step 5 Preview | Artificial Analysis | Oct 27, 2026 |
| FrontierCode (AA run)AA's FrontierCode score: hard, unsaturated coding tasks. | 38.4% | Step 5 Preview | Artificial Analysis | Oct 27, 2026 |
| Humanity's Last Exam (AA run)Share of Humanity's Last Exam questions answered correctly in AA's run. | 46.5% | Step 5 Preview | Artificial Analysis | Oct 27, 2026 |
| Intelligence IndexArtificial Analysis Intelligence Index: AA's composite of its own evaluation runs, 0 to 100 points. | 43.7 | Step 5 Preview | Artificial Analysis | Oct 27, 2026 |
| IT-Bench SRE (AA run)AA's IT-Bench SRE score for incident and reliability agents. | 55.6% | Step 5 Preview | Artificial Analysis | Oct 27, 2026 |
| MMMU-Pro (AA run)Multimodal understanding accuracy on MMMU-Pro in AA's run. | 76.4% | Step 5 Preview | Artificial Analysis | Oct 27, 2026 |
| SciCode (AA run)SciCode subproblem accuracy in AA's run. | 58.9% | Step 5 Preview | Artificial Analysis | Oct 27, 2026 |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 (AA run)Share of Terminal-Bench 4.0 tasks solved in AA's own harness. | 33.3% | Step 5 Preview | Artificial Analysis | Oct 27, 2026 |
| Terminal-Bench Science (AA run)Share of Terminal-Bench Science tasks solved in AA's harness. | 2.4% | Step 5 Preview | Artificial Analysis | Oct 27, 2026 |
| Domains | ||||
| EconomicsArtificial Analysis capability score for economics questions, 0 to 100 points. | 52.8 | Step 5 Preview | Artificial Analysis | Oct 27, 2026 |
| EngineeringArtificial Analysis capability score for engineering questions, 0 to 100 points. | 45 | Step 5 Preview | Artificial Analysis | Oct 27, 2026 |
| Finance and accountingArtificial Analysis capability score for finance and accounting questions, 0 to 100 points. | 45.4 | Step 5 Preview | Artificial Analysis | Oct 27, 2026 |
| Healthcare and medicalArtificial Analysis capability score for healthcare and medical questions, 0 to 100 points. | 41.1 | Step 5 Preview | Artificial Analysis | Oct 27, 2026 |
| LegalArtificial Analysis capability score for legal questions, 0 to 100 points. | 46.2 | Step 5 Preview | Artificial Analysis | Oct 27, 2026 |
| Strategy and operationsArtificial Analysis capability score for strategy and operations questions, 0 to 100 points. | 47.1 | Step 5 Preview | Artificial Analysis | Oct 27, 2026 |
Where Step 5 Preview is offered, what each route charges, and how each endpoint is holding up.
4 of 19 routes GILD tracks offer Step 5 Preview today, preview included. Read Oct 29, 2026 from each route's own pages.
| Route | Status | Model ID | Limits and lifecycle | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Code | Available | step-5-preview | Documented by StepFun, not by Anthropic: its guide uses a Step Plan subscription and StepFun's Step Plan endpoint | StepFun |
| The maker's own API | Available | step-5-preview | StepFun Open Platform; text, image and video input; 1M context, 64K output; US$1.00 input, US$0.10 cache hit, US$2.70 output per million tokens | StepFun, Step 5 PreviewStepFun, Pricing and Rate Limits |
| GitHub Models | Retired | not applicableservice retired | service retired July 30, 2026 | GitHub |
| OpenCode | Available | step-5-preview | OpenCode Go only; US$1.00 input, US$2.70 output | OpenCode |
| OpenRouter | Available | stepfun/step-5-preview | 1,048,576 context for the model; top provider 1,000,000 context and 64,000 output | OpenRouter |
Not offered on 10 routes: Amazon Bedrock, Antigravity, Claude on Google Cloud (Anthropic managed), Claude Platform on AWS, Cursor, Databricks, GitHub Copilot, Google Cloud Vertex / Agent Platform (Google managed), Microsoft Foundry and Snowflake Cortex.
4 routes do not say: Codex, Gemini CLI, Grok Build and Windsurf / Devin.
| Route | Status | Model ID | Limits and lifecycle | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon Bedrock | Not offered | Bedrock's model index has no StepFun section | Amazon Web Services | |
| Antigravity | Not offered | Antigravity lists Gemini, Claude and GPT-OSS models only | ||
| Claude on Google Cloud (Anthropic managed) | Not offered | Takes the Claude API's model IDs, which name Anthropic's Claude models only | Anthropic, Claude Models on Google Cloud (Anthropic managed)Anthropic, Models overview | |
| Claude Platform on AWS | Not offered | Claude Platform on AWS lists Anthropic's Claude models only | Anthropic | |
| Cursor | Not offered | absent from Cursor's model table | Cursor | |
| Databricks | Not offered | Databricks' hosted model list has no StepFun model | Databricks | |
| GitHub Copilot | Not offered | Absent from the Copilot supported-models table, which lists each supported model | GitHub | |
| Google Cloud Vertex / Agent Platform (Google managed) | Not offered | Google's open model list has no StepFun model | Google Cloud | |
| Microsoft Foundry | Not offered | Foundry names no StepFun model; its other collections come from Cohere, DeepSeek, Meta, Mistral AI and xAI | Microsoft | |
| Snowflake Cortex | Not offered | absent from Cortex's AI_COMPLETE model table | Snowflake | |
| Codex | Not stated | Codex docs list OpenAI models only; other models need a custom Responses API provider | OpenAI | |
| Gemini CLI | Not stated | Gemini CLI's model page names Gemini models only | ||
| Grok Build | Not stated | Grok Build names only grok-4.7; its docs say it supports any custom model added to its config file | xAI (SpaceXSI), Grok Build: SpaceXSI's Coding AgentxAI (SpaceXSI), Bring Grok to | |
| Windsurf / Devin | Not stated | absent from Devin model data | Cognition |
The lowest standard rate is maker API, at $1 / $2.70 per million input and output tokens. US dollars per million tokens, as each route lists them, one row per route and rate plan, cheapest standard rate first after the maker's own; a blended rate states its mix. OpenRouter's endpoints follow under one heading, each with its monitor's uptime over 1 day and 30 minutes and the context and output it serves.
| Route | Standard, in / out | Cache read | Other rates | Source, or uptime (1 day / 30 min) and limits |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| maker APIMakerLowest | $1 / $2.70 | StepFun, Oct 29, 2026 | ||
| Artificial Analysis price record | $1 / $2.70 | $0.1 | Blended $1.43, 3 input : 1 output, no cacheBlended $0.54, 7 cache-hit : 2 input : 1 output | Artificial Analysis, Oct 27, 2026 |
| OpenRouter | $1 / $2.70 | $0.1 | OpenRouter, Oct 29, 2026 | |
| Through OpenRouter, 3 provider endpoints. OpenRouter, Oct 30, 2026 | ||||
| Featherless (fp4) | $1 / $2.70 | $0.1 | Up 83.9%262K context, 33K output | |
| GMICloud (fp8) | $1 / $2.70 | $0.1 | Up 2.3% / 0%1.05M context, 944K output | |
| StepFun (fp8) | $1 / $2.70 | $0.1 | Up 100%1M context, 64K output | |
StepFun's one release we track, with its list price and speed. Step 5 Preview is lit.
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Step 5 Preview can power coding, reasoning, and validation work inside an agentic software-development product. The Model does not itself provide the surrounding interface, execution environment, or system of record.
The Model can assist with work planning & task decomposition when a Product supplies the necessary context and tools.
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We cover 1 product that offers Step 5 Preview today, all subscriptions.
Plan access as each vendor's page states it: Anomaly (Oct 28, 2026).
Step 5 Preview has enough accounts to score 0 of 7 axes so far.
Each figure is the share of accounts naming Step 5 Preview that speak well of it on that axis. An axis is scored once praise and concerns are both on record from at least five accounts by three authors. An account from the maker, a company that sells or serves the model, or the maker's expert program is listed and counts toward no figure.
| Axis | Favorable | Accounts |
|---|---|---|
| Quality and reasoningWhether its answers and code are right on the author's own task: reasoning, accuracy, instruction following, and consistency. | Needs 5 accounts from 3 authors | 2 favorable, 1 not, 3 authors |
| Tool use and structured outputWhether it calls tools correctly, returns valid structured output, and keeps agent loops on track. | Only concerns on record | 0 favorable, 1 not, 1 author |
| Long contextHow it holds up over long documents, large codebases, long sessions, and many images or PDFs. | No accounts yet | None yet |
| Developer experienceHow it is to build with: prompting, steering, effort settings, and support across SDKs and providers. | No accounts yet | None yet |
| CostWhat the work costs: price per task, token use, and what caching and batch save. | Only praise on record | 1 favorable, 0 not, 1 author |
| SpeedResponse time, time to first token, and throughput. | Only concerns on record | 0 favorable, 1 not, 1 author |
| ReliabilityWhether requests keep succeeding: overloaded errors, outages, rate limits, and changes that broke what worked. | Only concerns on record | 0 favorable, 1 not, 1 author |
| Axis | Step 5 Preview | Claude Haiku 5.5 | Claude Sonnet 5.5 | Claude Opus 5.5 | Claude Fable 5.1 | Claude Opus 5 | Claude Sonnet 5 | Claude Fable 5 | Claude Opus 4.8 | Claude Opus 4.7 | Claude Sonnet 4.6 | Claude Opus 4.6 | Claude Opus 4.5 | Claude Haiku 4.5 | Claude Sonnet 4.5 | GPT-6.1 Terra | GPT-6.1 Sol | GPT-6 Luna | GPT-6 Astra | GPT-5.6 Sol | GPT-5.6 Terra | GPT-5.6 Luna | GPT-5.5 | GPT-5.4 | gpt-oss-120b | GPT-6 Sol | GPT-5.3-Codex | Gemini 4 Argon | Gemini 3.8 Flash | Gemma 4 31B | Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview | Gemini 3.6 Flash | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash | DeepSeek V4 Pro | Kimi K3.1 Pro | Kimi K3 | Kimi K2.7 Code | Mistral Large 4 | Mistral Medium 3.5 | Grok 4.7 | Grok 4.6 | Grok 4.5 | MiniMax M3.1 Flash | Mercury 3 | GLM-5.3-Flash | GLM-5.3 | GLM-5.2 | Muse Spark Open | Muse Wonder | Muse Spark 1.3 | Llama 4 Scout | Llama 4 Maverick | Qwen3.8 27B | Qwen3.8 Max | MiMo-V2.6-Pro | MiMo-V2.6-Flash | Ling 3.1 Flash |
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| Quality and reasoning | Needs 5 accounts from 3 authors2 favorable, 1 not, 3 authors | 73%19 favorable, 7 not, 26 authors | 64%14 favorable, 8 not, 22 authors | 68%17 favorable, 8 not, 25 authors | 54%15 favorable, 13 not, 28 authors | 50%6 favorable, 6 not, 12 authors | 56%9 favorable, 7 not, 16 authors | 68%13 favorable, 6 not, 18 authors | 68%17 favorable, 8 not, 25 authors | 57%12 favorable, 9 not, 21 authors | 67%12 favorable, 6 not, 18 authors | 70%19 favorable, 8 not, 27 authors | 62%13 favorable, 8 not, 20 authors | 58%14 favorable, 10 not, 24 authors | 69%11 favorable, 5 not, 16 authors | 33%3 favorable, 6 not, 8 authors | 55%12 favorable, 10 not, 22 authors | 55%16 favorable, 13 not, 29 authors | 44%12 favorable, 15 not, 26 authors | 33%3 favorable, 6 not, 9 authors | 38%3 favorable, 5 not, 8 authors | Needs 5 accounts from 3 authors3 favorable, 1 not, 4 authors | 33%4 favorable, 8 not, 12 authors | 33%2 favorable, 4 not, 6 authors | 58%22 favorable, 16 not, 38 authors | 31%10 favorable, 22 not, 32 authors | Needs 5 accounts from 3 authors1 favorable, 3 not, 4 authors | 63%22 favorable, 13 not, 35 authors | 56%27 favorable, 21 not, 45 authors | 80%24 favorable, 6 not, 28 authors | 56%20 favorable, 16 not, 36 authors | Needs 5 accounts from 3 authors1 favorable, 3 not, 4 authors | 61%25 favorable, 16 not, 40 authors | Only concerns on record0 favorable, 4 not, 4 authors | 59%20 favorable, 14 not, 32 authors | Only praise on record3 favorable, 0 not, 3 authors | 50%3 favorable, 3 not, 6 authors | 58%11 favorable, 8 not, 18 authors | 36%5 favorable, 9 not, 14 authors | 43%16 favorable, 21 not, 36 authors | 86%6 favorable, 1 not, 7 authors | 60%3 favorable, 2 not, 5 authors | 62%13 favorable, 8 not, 21 authors | 86%18 favorable, 3 not, 21 authors | 67%14 favorable, 7 not, 21 authors | 76%47 favorable, 15 not, 61 authors | 71%5 favorable, 2 not, 7 authors | Needs 5 accounts from 3 authors2 favorable, 1 not, 3 authors | 20%1 favorable, 4 not, 5 authors | Only praise on record2 favorable, 0 not, 2 authors | 53%8 favorable, 7 not, 15 authors | 44%8 favorable, 10 not, 17 authors | 71%24 favorable, 10 not, 34 authors | 57%4 favorable, 3 not, 7 authors | 22%2 favorable, 7 not, 9 authors | 40%4 favorable, 6 not, 10 authors | Only concerns on record0 favorable, 1 not, 1 author |
| Tool use and structured output | Only concerns on record0 favorable, 1 not, 1 author | 67%6 favorable, 3 not, 9 authors | 40%4 favorable, 6 not, 10 authors | 46%6 favorable, 7 not, 13 authors | 30%3 favorable, 7 not, 10 authors | Needs 5 accounts from 3 authors3 favorable, 1 not, 4 authors | 70%7 favorable, 3 not, 10 authors | 57%4 favorable, 3 not, 7 authors | 50%4 favorable, 4 not, 8 authors | 50%4 favorable, 4 not, 8 authors | 29%2 favorable, 5 not, 7 authors | 33%4 favorable, 8 not, 12 authors | 70%7 favorable, 3 not, 10 authors | 43%3 favorable, 4 not, 6 authors | 50%3 favorable, 3 not, 6 authors | 40%2 favorable, 3 not, 5 authors | 40%4 favorable, 6 not, 10 authors | 33%3 favorable, 6 not, 9 authors | 62%8 favorable, 5 not, 13 authors | No accounts yet | Only concerns on record0 favorable, 2 not, 2 authors | Only praise on record1 favorable, 0 not, 1 author | Only praise on record1 favorable, 0 not, 1 author | No accounts yet | 27%4 favorable, 11 not, 15 authors | 56%5 favorable, 4 not, 9 authors | No accounts yet | 25%2 favorable, 6 not, 8 authors | 47%7 favorable, 8 not, 15 authors | 67%4 favorable, 2 not, 6 authors | 54%7 favorable, 6 not, 12 authors | Only concerns on record0 favorable, 1 not, 1 author | 59%10 favorable, 7 not, 17 authors | Only concerns on record0 favorable, 1 not, 1 author | Needs 5 accounts from 3 authors3 favorable, 1 not, 4 authors | Only concerns on record0 favorable, 1 not, 1 author | No accounts yet | 38%5 favorable, 8 not, 13 authors | Only concerns on record0 favorable, 5 not, 5 authors | 38%6 favorable, 10 not, 16 authors | Only praise on record2 favorable, 0 not, 2 authors | Only concerns on record0 favorable, 1 not, 1 author | 67%4 favorable, 2 not, 6 authors | 80%8 favorable, 2 not, 10 authors | 33%2 favorable, 4 not, 6 authors | 57%4 favorable, 3 not, 7 authors | No accounts yet | No accounts yet | Only concerns on record0 favorable, 1 not, 1 author | Needs 5 accounts from 3 authors1 favorable, 1 not, 2 authors | Needs 5 accounts from 3 authors1 favorable, 2 not, 3 authors | Only concerns on record0 favorable, 4 not, 4 authors | 46%6 favorable, 7 not, 13 authors | Only praise on record1 favorable, 0 not, 1 author | Only concerns on record0 favorable, 5 not, 5 authors | Only concerns on record0 favorable, 1 not, 1 author | Only concerns on record0 favorable, 1 not, 1 author |
| Long context | No accounts yet | 29%2 favorable, 5 not, 7 authors | 60%3 favorable, 2 not, 5 authors | 80%8 favorable, 2 not, 10 authors | 63%5 favorable, 3 not, 8 authors | 67%4 favorable, 2 not, 6 authors | 50%3 favorable, 3 not, 6 authors | 33%2 favorable, 4 not, 6 authors | 60%6 favorable, 4 not, 10 authors | 50%4 favorable, 4 not, 7 authors | 71%5 favorable, 2 not, 7 authors | 64%7 favorable, 4 not, 11 authors | 40%4 favorable, 6 not, 10 authors | 40%2 favorable, 3 not, 5 authors | 50%4 favorable, 4 not, 8 authors | Only concerns on record0 favorable, 1 not, 1 author | 38%3 favorable, 5 not, 8 authors | 20%1 favorable, 4 not, 5 authors | 27%3 favorable, 8 not, 11 authors | No accounts yet | No accounts yet | Only concerns on record0 favorable, 1 not, 1 author | Only concerns on record0 favorable, 1 not, 1 author | Needs 5 accounts from 3 authors2 favorable, 1 not, 3 authors | 25%2 favorable, 6 not, 8 authors | Only concerns on record0 favorable, 3 not, 3 authors | No accounts yet | 25%2 favorable, 6 not, 8 authors | 38%5 favorable, 8 not, 13 authors | 20%1 favorable, 4 not, 5 authors | 44%7 favorable, 9 not, 16 authors | Only praise on record1 favorable, 0 not, 1 author | 58%7 favorable, 5 not, 12 authors | No accounts yet | Needs 5 accounts from 3 authors3 favorable, 1 not, 4 authors | Only praise on record1 favorable, 0 not, 1 author | Only concerns on record0 favorable, 1 not, 1 author | Needs 5 accounts from 3 authors1 favorable, 3 not, 4 authors | No accounts yet | 42%5 favorable, 7 not, 12 authors | No accounts yet | No accounts yet | 40%2 favorable, 3 not, 5 authors | 60%3 favorable, 2 not, 5 authors | No accounts yet | 40%2 favorable, 3 not, 5 authors | No accounts yet | No accounts yet | Only concerns on record0 favorable, 1 not, 1 author | Only concerns on record0 favorable, 1 not, 1 author | Only concerns on record0 favorable, 3 not, 3 authors | Needs 5 accounts from 3 authors2 favorable, 1 not, 3 authors | 75%6 favorable, 2 not, 8 authors | Only praise on record1 favorable, 0 not, 1 author | Needs 5 accounts from 3 authors1 favorable, 1 not, 2 authors | Needs 5 accounts from 3 authors1 favorable, 1 not, 2 authors | No accounts yet |
| Developer experience | No accounts yet | 25%2 favorable, 6 not, 8 authors | 38%5 favorable, 8 not, 13 authors | 38%6 favorable, 10 not, 16 authors | 50%7 favorable, 7 not, 14 authors | 25%3 favorable, 9 not, 12 authors | 29%2 favorable, 5 not, 7 authors | 25%3 favorable, 9 not, 12 authors | 53%10 favorable, 9 not, 19 authors | 29%4 favorable, 10 not, 14 authors | 57%4 favorable, 3 not, 7 authors | 45%5 favorable, 6 not, 11 authors | 67%8 favorable, 4 not, 12 authors | Needs 5 accounts from 3 authors2 favorable, 2 not, 4 authors | 50%3 favorable, 3 not, 6 authors | Only concerns on record0 favorable, 2 not, 2 authors | 27%3 favorable, 8 not, 11 authors | 25%2 favorable, 6 not, 8 authors | 41%7 favorable, 10 not, 17 authors | No accounts yet | Only concerns on record0 favorable, 1 not, 1 author | No accounts yet | No accounts yet | No accounts yet | 14%1 favorable, 6 not, 7 authors | 25%3 favorable, 9 not, 12 authors | No accounts yet | 33%3 favorable, 6 not, 9 authors | 39%7 favorable, 11 not, 17 authors | Only concerns on record0 favorable, 7 not, 7 authors | 40%8 favorable, 12 not, 20 authors | No accounts yet | 35%8 favorable, 15 not, 23 authors | No accounts yet | 9%1 favorable, 10 not, 11 authors | No accounts yet | Only concerns on record0 favorable, 1 not, 1 author | 13%2 favorable, 14 not, 16 authors | Only concerns on record0 favorable, 9 not, 9 authors | 25%5 favorable, 15 not, 20 authors | No accounts yet | No accounts yet | Only concerns on record0 favorable, 7 not, 7 authors | 11%1 favorable, 8 not, 9 authors | Only concerns on record0 favorable, 3 not, 3 authors | 33%5 favorable, 10 not, 15 authors | No accounts yet | Only concerns on record0 favorable, 1 not, 1 author | Only concerns on record0 favorable, 1 not, 1 author | No accounts yet | Only concerns on record0 favorable, 6 not, 6 authors | Only concerns on record0 favorable, 1 not, 1 author | 17%1 favorable, 5 not, 6 authors | Only concerns on record0 favorable, 1 not, 1 author | Only concerns on record0 favorable, 1 not, 1 author | Only concerns on record0 favorable, 1 not, 1 author | No accounts yet |
| Cost | Only praise on record1 favorable, 0 not, 1 author | 69%20 favorable, 9 not, 29 authors | 45%10 favorable, 12 not, 22 authors | 56%15 favorable, 12 not, 27 authors | 20%4 favorable, 16 not, 20 authors | 43%3 favorable, 4 not, 7 authors | 39%7 favorable, 11 not, 17 authors | 8%1 favorable, 11 not, 12 authors | 40%6 favorable, 9 not, 14 authors | 50%7 favorable, 7 not, 13 authors | 50%6 favorable, 6 not, 12 authors | 33%7 favorable, 14 not, 20 authors | 53%8 favorable, 7 not, 15 authors | 29%4 favorable, 10 not, 12 authors | 38%3 favorable, 5 not, 8 authors | 80%8 favorable, 2 not, 9 authors | 74%14 favorable, 5 not, 19 authors | 79%22 favorable, 6 not, 26 authors | 29%7 favorable, 17 not, 23 authors | 57%4 favorable, 3 not, 7 authors | Only concerns on record0 favorable, 1 not, 1 author | 50%3 favorable, 3 not, 6 authors | Needs 5 accounts from 3 authors1 favorable, 3 not, 4 authors | 63%5 favorable, 3 not, 8 authors | 60%3 favorable, 2 not, 5 authors | 55%12 favorable, 10 not, 21 authors | Needs 5 accounts from 3 authors2 favorable, 1 not, 3 authors | 35%7 favorable, 13 not, 20 authors | 58%14 favorable, 10 not, 23 authors | Only praise on record7 favorable, 0 not, 7 authors | 50%8 favorable, 8 not, 16 authors | Only concerns on record0 favorable, 1 not, 1 author | 66%25 favorable, 13 not, 37 authors | Only praise on record2 favorable, 0 not, 2 authors | 40%10 favorable, 15 not, 25 authors | 71%5 favorable, 2 not, 7 authors | Needs 5 accounts from 3 authors1 favorable, 3 not, 4 authors | 27%3 favorable, 8 not, 11 authors | Only concerns on record0 favorable, 8 not, 8 authors | 19%5 favorable, 21 not, 26 authors | 20%1 favorable, 4 not, 5 authors | Only praise on record4 favorable, 0 not, 4 authors | 80%12 favorable, 3 not, 15 authors | 50%6 favorable, 6 not, 12 authors | 76%16 favorable, 5 not, 21 authors | 35%8 favorable, 15 not, 23 authors | 71%5 favorable, 2 not, 7 authors | Only concerns on record0 favorable, 1 not, 1 author | Only concerns on record0 favorable, 9 not, 9 authors | Needs 5 accounts from 3 authors2 favorable, 1 not, 3 authors | Only praise on record1 favorable, 0 not, 1 author | Only praise on record1 favorable, 0 not, 1 author | Needs 5 accounts from 3 authors2 favorable, 2 not, 4 authors | Only concerns on record0 favorable, 2 not, 2 authors | Needs 5 accounts from 3 authors1 favorable, 1 not, 2 authors | Only praise on record3 favorable, 0 not, 3 authors | Only praise on record1 favorable, 0 not, 1 author |
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it found a nagging issue in my codebase that both ChatGPT and Claude (Fable 5.5) failed to find.
I used Step 5 Preview during that free week. Hisham, Founder/CEO of @cedruscorp, as the X bio states, self-described, Oct 30, 2026. Step 5 Preview during its free week on Nous Portal, on the author's codebase, against ChatGPT and Claude Fable 5.5.
Step 5 Preview is a reasonable free reviewer for small and medium pull requests
Step 5 Preview code review benchmark: free, ties DeepSeek on small PRs, fails big ones. PGUP AI, makers of the J-Bot Review GitHub Action, self-described, Oct 8, 2026. Step 5 Preview (opencode/step-5-preview-free on OpenCode Zen) as J-Bot Review's model on nine pull requests, eight of them production pull requests at high effort.
I just used this for some code generation and general debugging of a failing feature, It somehow managed to burn 40million tokens (according to opencode console) and my issue is still not resolved.
Step 5 Preview is free on OpenCode for a week. eachDayIWakeUp, a Reddit user, self-described, Oct 9, 2026. Step 5 Preview in OpenCode on code generation and debugging a failing feature.
the model put a stray quote inside the tool tag, which broke both NVIDIA's server-side parser and our fallback parser
[Bug]: Step5 Preview abrupt ends. BaUka0, owner of the nvidia-nim-provider repository, self-described, Oct 24, 2026. Step 5 Preview (step-5-preview) on NVIDIA's servers through the nvidia-nim-provider extension, in an agent run with tool calls.
Pretty decent "API" rates for ~500M+ tokens on Step Fun 5
Step 5 Preview: Advancing the Pareto Frontier. ignoramous, Hacker News commenter, self-described, Sep 20, 2026. Step 5 Preview (step-5-preview, 'Step Fun 5') API rates for heavy cached use, against StepFun's Step Plan.
it was slower than DeepSeek on two of the three pull requests where we have a DeepSeek time
Step 5 Preview code review benchmark: free, ties DeepSeek on small PRs, fails big ones. PGUP AI, makers of the J-Bot Review GitHub Action, self-described, Oct 8, 2026. Step 5 Preview (opencode/step-5-preview-free on OpenCode Zen) as J-Bot Review's model on nine pull requests, eight of them production pull requests at high effort.
On G, 20 files over three pages, one page returned an empty response, and its retry used up the rest of the budget.
Step 5 Preview code review benchmark: free, ties DeepSeek on small PRs, fails big ones. PGUP AI, makers of the J-Bot Review GitHub Action, self-described, Oct 8, 2026. Step 5 Preview (opencode/step-5-preview-free on OpenCode Zen) as J-Bot Review's model on nine pull requests, eight of them production pull requests at high effort.
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