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Context window
1,000,000 tokens
Maximum output
1,000,000 tokens
Open weights
Yes

Capability & preference

Human preference · Arena

Overall text preferences from head-to-head votes. Not factual accuracy or a task-success rate.

Step 5 Preview 1442.7 Step 5 Preview · 95% interval 1436.4–1449.0 · 11,355 votes · 2026-10-28

Recorded results

Only the same benchmark, version, workload, scenario and unit share a row. Missing results are not zero. System results include the full submitted hardware and software configuration.

Arena text preference / chinesehuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

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1,501.77 rating

Confidence interval: 1,482.52 – 1,521.01

921 votes

Category
chinese
Evaluated configuration
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Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / codinghuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

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1,482.24 rating

Confidence interval: 1,470.71 – 1,493.77

2721 votes

Category
coding
Evaluated configuration
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Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / creative_writinghuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

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1,413.03 rating

Confidence interval: 1,399.93 – 1,426.13

2359 votes

Category
creative_writing
Evaluated configuration
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Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / englishhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

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1,453.69 rating

Confidence interval: 1,443.93 – 1,463.44

4072 votes

Category
english
Evaluated configuration
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Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / exclude_tieshuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

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1,436.72 rating

Confidence interval: 1,428.02 – 1,445.42

8057 votes

Category
exclude_ties
Evaluated configuration
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Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / experthuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

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1,478.09 rating

Confidence interval: 1,460.74 – 1,495.44

1142 votes

Category
expert
Evaluated configuration
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Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / frenchhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

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1,439.84 rating

Confidence interval: 1,412.06 – 1,467.62

485 votes

Category
french
Evaluated configuration
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Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / germanhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

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1,453.59 rating

Confidence interval: 1,414.35 – 1,492.83

193 votes

Category
german
Evaluated configuration
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Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / hard_promptshuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

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1,462.61 rating

Confidence interval: 1,454.97 – 1,470.26

7107 votes

Category
hard_prompts
Evaluated configuration
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Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / hard_prompts_englishhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

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1,461.07 rating

Confidence interval: 1,449.18 – 1,472.96

2648 votes

Category
hard_prompts_english
Evaluated configuration
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Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_business_and_management_and_financial_operationshuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

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1,442.85 rating

Confidence interval: 1,429.07 – 1,456.63

1939 votes

Category
industry_business_and_management_and_financial_operations
Evaluated configuration
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Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_entertainment_and_sports_and_mediahuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

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1,412.04 rating

Confidence interval: 1,400.25 – 1,423.82

2880 votes

Category
industry_entertainment_and_sports_and_media
Evaluated configuration
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Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_legal_and_governmenthuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

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1,440.90 rating

Confidence interval: 1,421.43 – 1,460.36

931 votes

Category
industry_legal_and_government
Evaluated configuration
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Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_life_and_physical_and_social_sciencehuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

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1,458.77 rating

Confidence interval: 1,444.77 – 1,472.78

1825 votes

Category
industry_life_and_physical_and_social_science
Evaluated configuration
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Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_mathematicalhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

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1,461.99 rating

Confidence interval: 1,439.33 – 1,484.66

643 votes

Category
industry_mathematical
Evaluated configuration
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Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_medicine_and_healthcarehuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

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1,438.78 rating

Confidence interval: 1,417.23 – 1,460.33

787 votes

Category
industry_medicine_and_healthcare
Evaluated configuration
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Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_software_and_it_serviceshuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

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1,471.58 rating

Confidence interval: 1,462.08 – 1,481.08

4170 votes

Category
industry_software_and_it_services
Evaluated configuration
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Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_writing_and_literature_and_languagehuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

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1,427.44 rating

Confidence interval: 1,416.16 – 1,438.73

3108 votes

Category
industry_writing_and_literature_and_language
Evaluated configuration
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Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / instruction_followinghuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

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1,440.81 rating

Confidence interval: 1,430.92 – 1,450.70

3960 votes

Category
instruction_following
Evaluated configuration
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Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / japanesehuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

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1,397.68 rating

Confidence interval: 1,359.09 – 1,436.27

237 votes

Category
japanese
Evaluated configuration
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Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / koreanhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

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1,414.92 rating

Confidence interval: 1,374.44 – 1,455.40

202 votes

Category
korean
Evaluated configuration
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Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / longer_queryhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

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1,452.09 rating

Confidence interval: 1,442.80 – 1,461.37

4752 votes

Category
longer_query
Evaluated configuration
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Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / mathhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

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1,456.97 rating

Confidence interval: 1,433.20 – 1,480.73

574 votes

Category
math
Evaluated configuration
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Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / multi_turnhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

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1,436.75 rating

Confidence interval: 1,421.60 – 1,451.91

1618 votes

Category
multi_turn
Evaluated configuration
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Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / non_englishhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

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1,428.91 rating

Confidence interval: 1,421.43 – 1,436.40

7277 votes

Category
non_english
Evaluated configuration
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Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / overallhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

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1,442.72 rating

Confidence interval: 1,436.40 – 1,449.04

11355 votes

Category
overall
Evaluated configuration
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Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / polishhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

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1,390.26 rating

Confidence interval: 1,346.04 – 1,434.48

179 votes

Category
polish
Evaluated configuration
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Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / russianhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

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1,430.66 rating

Confidence interval: 1,416.23 – 1,445.10

1693 votes

Category
russian
Evaluated configuration
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Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / spanishhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

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1,443.97 rating

Confidence interval: 1,415.93 – 1,472.01

417 votes

Category
spanish
Evaluated configuration
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Evaluation type
human preference

Run it locally

Inference · memory estimate

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Not enough verified architecture information for a reliable VRAM estimate.

API cost

USD / month

Standard text-token estimate. Excludes taxes, caching, batch discounts, reasoning and multimodal surcharges. Provider limits and regional availability may differ.

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Step 5 Preview / Pricing tiers 2
Provider / scopeRateCurrencyAmount / unit
DeepInfrastepfun-ai/Step-5-PreviewStandard Cached inputUSD0.05 / 1M tokens
InputUSD1 / 1M tokens
OutputUSD2.7 / 1M tokens
StepFunstep-5-previewStandard Cached inputCNY0.7 / 1M tokens
InputCNY7 / 1M tokens
OutputCNY20 / 1M tokens

Capabilities

Context window
1,000,000 tokens
Maximum output
1,000,000 tokens
Reasoning
Yes
Tool calling
Yes
Open weights
Yes
Model license
Proprietary

Input modalities

  • text
  • image
  • video

Output modalities

  • text