Flagship for agentic work; reasoning_effort low/medium/high; pay-as-you-go $1.00 cache-miss / $0.05 cache-hit in, $2.70 out per 1M tokens; strong on finance and software engineering per official positioning
Availability
API step-5-preview (platform.stepfun.ai / platform.stepfun.com); available on Step Plan; open weights planned 2026-10-15