LLM Reference

Step-1

Released
2024-04-01
Last refreshed
2026-05-29
Status
Researched 25d ago
ProprietaryCommercial use with conditionsLong context

Step-1 is worth evaluating for long context when its provider route and context window match the workload.

Use it for

  • Teams evaluating long context
  • Workloads that can use a 128k context window
  • Buyers comparing 1 tracked provider route

Do not use it for

  • Vision or document-understanding workloads
  • Strict JSON or tool-calling flows
Specifications
Family
Step
Released
2024-04-01
Context
128k
Architecture
Decoder Only
Specialization
general
Openness
Proprietary
License
ProprietaryCommercial use with conditions
Training
pretrained
Created by

One of China's leading AI 'Six Tigers'.

Shanghai, China
Founded 2023
Website
Pricing
Output / 1M
-
Input / 1M
-

Cheapest of 1 route · StepFun

About

Step-1 is StepFun's Step model. It offers a 128K-token context window.

Step-1 is a proprietary model in the Step family. The structured metadata tracks a 128k-token context window. This page tracks provider routes through StepFun. No headline benchmark score is tracked for Step-1 yet.

Top use-case fit

Long context

Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.

Provider price ladder

Compare API pricing across 1 providers for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.

ProviderInput / 1MOutput / 1MRoute
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ServerlessPartial

Capabilities

No model capability flags are currently sourced.

Benchmark peer barsfor Long context

No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.

Migration checks

No linked migration route is available for this model yet.