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Step 3.7 Flash

StepFun · released May 28, 2026

Open weightsReasoningTool useStructured outputVisionVideo in

Step 3.7 Flash is StepFun's latest high-efficiency multimodal Mixture-of-Experts model. It pairs a 196B-parameter language backbone with a vision encoder for native image and video understanding, activating roughly 11B parameters...

Specification

Context window
262K
Max output
256K
Knowledge cutoff
Not stated
Parameters
201.4B
Licence
apache-2.0
Serving providers
3
Moderated
No
Uptime
100.0%

Intelligence

30.9

75th percentile

Coding

39.6

Coding Index

Agentic

21.7

Agentic Index

Output speed

153 t/s

Median across providers

Latency

253ms

Time to first token

Cost per task

$0.10

Estimated

Benchmarks

Where the score comes from

The Intelligence Index is a composite. These are the underlying evaluations this model was actually measured on.

Evaluation scores

Percentage correct · higher is better

  • τ²-bench (Telecom)
    98.5%
  • GPQA Diamond
    80.9%
  • AA-LCR (long context)
    69.7%
  • IFBench
    67.3%
  • SciCode
    40.0%
  • Terminal-Bench Hard
    35.6%
  • Humanity's Last Exam
    21.4%

An evaluation missing from this list was not run for this model — it is not a zero.

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EvaluationScore
τ²-bench (Telecom)98.5%
GPQA Diamond80.9%
AA-LCR (long context)69.7%
IFBench67.3%
SciCode40.0%
Terminal-Bench Hard35.6%
Humanity's Last Exam21.4%

Against its peers

Intelligence Index · this model highlighted, nearest peers in grey

Peers are the models sitting closest on the Intelligence Index — the set you would realistically choose between.

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ModelIntelligence
Qwen3.6 35B A3B32.1
GPT-5.1-Codex-Mini31.3
Ring-2.6-1T31.1
o331.1
Step 3.7 Flash30.9
Mistral Medium 3.530.4
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B29.9
Claude Sonnet 4.529.9

Percentile among all indexed models

Intelligence75th
Coding53th
Agentic40th
Terminal work81th
Arena Elo61th

Pricing

What it costs to run

List prices per million tokens, plus what one representative task works out to.

List price

Input / 1M tokens
$0.2
Output / 1M tokens
$1.15
Cached input / 1M
$0.04
Blended 3:1
$0.438

One task, estimated

$0.10

Input tokens
50,000
Output tokens
80,000
Profile
Reasoning

Estimated from list pricing: 50K input tokens plus 80K output tokens for reasoning models (25K for non-reasoning).

Serving providers

Speed and latency figures are medians across these providers, so a widely-served model reports a blend rather than any single endpoint.

Arena

Head-to-head generation quality

Elo from pairwise judgements, broken out by the kind of thing the model was asked to build.

Overall Elo
1,211
Win rate
45.8%
Strongest at
Websites
Tournaments
10,795

Elo by category

Dot position on a 1,100–1,225 scale · Elo has no meaningful zero

Agent categories (full-stack apps, mobile apps) are only scored for models tested in agent harnesses.

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CategoryEloWin rate
Websites121145.8%
UI components120443.7%
Data visualisation119845.3%
Game development119141.7%
3D scenes117741.8%
SVG111538.6%