Using Step 5 Preview on StepFun

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StepFun exposes Step 5 Preview through model ID step-5-preview. Use the setup steps, sourced pricing, capabilities, and official provider links below to validate this route before deployment.

Last refreshed 2026-10-05. Next refresh: weekly.

Quick Start

  1. 1
    Create an account at StepFun and generate an API key.
  2. 2
    Use the StepFun SDK or REST API to call step-5-preview — see the documentation for request format.
  3. 3
    You'll be billed $1.00/1M input, $2.70/1M output tokens.

Code Examples

See StepFun documentation for integration details.

Pricing on StepFun

TypePrice (per 1M)
Input tokens$1.00
Output tokens$2.70
Image input$1.00
Video input$1.00

Capabilities

VisionMultimodalReasoningJSON / Tool useStructured OutputsPrompt Caching

About Step 5 Preview

Step 5 Preview is StepFun's flagship model for agentic work, aimed at software engineering and professional knowledge work, with particular strength in finance. It is a sparse Mixture-of-Experts model with 600B total parameters and 27B active per token. It accepts text, image, and video input, outputs text, and supports a 1M-token context window with up to 64K output tokens. Through the StepFun Open Platform API (model ID step-5-preview) it supports streaming, tool calling, JSON mode and JSON Schema structured output, prompt caching, and low/medium/high reasoning effort, via Chat Completions and Messages APIs.

Model Specs

Released2026-09-20
Parameters600B (27B active)
Context1m
ArchitectureMixture of Experts

Provider

StepFun