Key Info

StepFun has released Step 5 Preview, its new flagship model designed for agentic work, targeting frontier-level performance in software engineering and professional knowledge tasks while emphasizing lower cost compared to comparable models.

Highlights

  • Model specs: 600B total parameters with 27B active in a MoE architecture, supporting a 1M-token context and vision input.
  • Capability focus: Strong in software engineering, sustained long-horizon execution, and professional knowledge work, particularly finance.
  • Efficiency: Notably lower task cost at comparable intelligence, making it attractive for agentic or multi-step workflows.