Step 5 Preview pricing.

prices as of · 4 providers · 4 prices

StepFun's Step 5 Preview holds 1M tokens of context, reads images as well as text and has a reasoning mode. Closed weights: only StepFun and its licensed partners run it, so every other price below resells the same service.

Step 5 Preview costs $1 in and $2.70 out per million tokens from StepFun, and no provider goes below it with a reason we can point at.

tool callingreads imagesreasoningstructured output1M contextreleased 16 Sept 2026

StepFun list price

$5.70/M tokens

$1 in · $2.70 out

read · 68% above the market median

Cheapest price we can explain

$5.70

Nobody goes below StepFun's price for a reason we can point at, so the list price is the one to beat. Every other price is below.

Published task evidence

These are source measurements for the stated model version and configuration. Different benchmarks are not interchangeable, and a score is not a probability of success on your work.

No additional comparable SWE-bench or BFCL evidence is available for this model. Its price listing does not establish quality.

What it costs for your work

pages a month

StepFun list price

$0.762a month

cheapest we can explain

none

difference

no list price

A page is about 600 tokens in and 60 out, a support reply 200 in and 300 out, an email 150 in and 250 out. Nothing else is counted: no cache discount, no batch rate, no free tier.

Every provider selling Step 5 Preview

Four groups, decided by the price and by what the provider publishes about it. Prices are per million tokens, and the share is that row against StepFun's price.

The maker's list price

1 price

What the lab that trained the model charges on its own API.

  • StepFun

    The price StepFun charges for the model it trained. Every row below is measured against it.

    $1 / $2.70in / out per M

    1.00×of list price

Same price as the maker

3 prices

The same price the maker charges, sold by someone else.

Frequently asked

Who sells Step 5 Preview cheapest?
No provider sells Step 5 Preview below StepFun's price with a reason we can point at. 4 providers sell it at or above list, and those prices are all on this page.
Is Step 5 Preview open weights?
No. StepFun keeps the weights, so every price on this page is StepFun's own or a resale of it. A price below list here needs a published reason, or it is listed and never ranked.
How much context does Step 5 Preview hold?
1,000,000 tokens in one call, which is about 1M, and it can call your own functions.
How does Step 5 Preview compare with the rest of the market?
At $5.70 per million tokens, StepFun's price is 68% above the $3.40 median across the 339 text models we track.
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