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New Model Available: Step 5 Preview

StepFun released Step 5 Preview, a next-generation flagship foundation model built for real-world tasks with a focus on coding and professional knowledge work. The model natively supports text, image, and video input and offers a 1M-token context window, targeting workflows that process large amounts of information, use tools, and drive tasks through to deliverable results. The listing reports a 2.43s latency figure and 33.8 tokens per second throughput, with benchmarks sourced from Artificial Analysis.

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New Model Available: Step 5 Preview
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Step 5 Preview is StepFun's next-generation flagship foundation model for real-world tasks, with a focus on coding and professional knowledge work. It natively supports text, image, and video input, offers a 1M-token context window, and is well suited for workflows that require processing large amounts of information, using tools, and driving tasks through to deliverable results.

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-/ M tokens1M2.43s33.8tps

Uptime #

24hours Direct request success rate on AI Gateway and per-provider.

Throughput #

24hours P50 throughput on live AI Gateway traffic, in tokens per second (TPS).

Latency #

24hours P50 time to first token (TTFT) on live AI Gateway traffic, in milliseconds.

Activity #

Token volume and request traffic to this model over time.

Benchmarks #

Scores on standardized evaluations. Higher percentages are better — and rank percentile shows

Metrics sourced fromArtificial Analysis

Apps #

Public apps that send the most traffic to this model. Good signal for what real production workloads look like — and a hint at which use cases this model is best suited for. View All

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