LLM Reference

Step-1

Released
2024-04-01
Last refreshed
2026-06-29
Status
Researched 115d ago
ProprietaryCommercial use: conditionalLong 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: conditional
Weights
Not released
Code
Unknown
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.

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
StepFun--
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.