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Step 5 Preview API price per 1M tokens: input, cached and output prices, price chart and history

# Lab/Bloomberg ticker USD / 1M tokens 1D 1W 1M Trend Chart (3M)
1
DeepSeek
$0.0278-0.7%-3.5%-5.8%▼ Strong 5.8-33.0% a month
2
AnthropicORNNTOKA
$0.538-6.0%-21.4%-35.9%▼ Strong 5.7-20.9% a month
3
StepFun
$0.223-0.8%-4.9%+216.6%▲ Strong 4.5+63.8% a month
4
Z.ai
$0.128-11.3%-23.9%-22.3%▼ Moderate 3.5-31.1% a month
5
Alibaba
$0.0694-0.3%-1.3%-24.4%▼ Moderate 3.1-58.6% a month
6
Meta
$0.01570.0%0.0%0.0%▼ Moderate 2.4-59.2% a month
7
Xiaomi
$0.0357+3.8%+14.8%+32.7%▲ Moderate 2.4+9.1% a month
8
MiniMax
$0.0370-8.9%-51.1%-63.1%▼ Moderate 2.3-16.1% a month
9
xAI
$0.7350.0%0.0%0.0%▲ Moderate 2.2+4.8% a month
10
Google
$0.261+6.8%+10.7%+85.1%▲ Moderate 2.1+13.0% a month
11
Moonshot AI
$0.592-6.1%-17.9%-23.2%▼ Weak 1.2-2.7% a month
12
OpenAIORNNTOKO
$0.173-2.6%-20.5%-49.9%▼ Weak 0.2-2.3% a month
13
NVIDIA
$0.2000.0%0.0%0.0%Weak 0.00.0% a month

Step 5 PreviewStepFun

$0.234+22.8% (All)
USD / 1M tokens
Cache read $0.10 · Input $1.00 · Output $2.70 per 1M tokens, at 87% cache read, 12% input, 1% output
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#ModelAs ofShareUSD / 1M tokens
1Step 5 PreviewOct 31, 12:45 AM CDT93.1%$0.234
2Step 3.7 FlashOct 31, 12:45 AM CDT6.9%$0.0703

Break-even throughput by GPU

GPUUSD / GPU-hourTokens/s per GPU
B300$9.351,822
B200$7.821,524
H200$5.07989
H100$3.71724
RTX PRO 6000$2.07404
A100$1.76342
L40S$1.41274
L40$0.96187
RTX 6000 Ada$0.92179
RTX A6000$0.58113
RTX 4090$0.55108

Gross margin calculator

Revenue—
GPU rental price$3.71
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About Step 5 Preview

Step 5 Preview is a model from StepFun. Its posted API price is $1.00 per 1M input tokens, $0.10 per 1M cached input tokens and $2.70 per 1M output tokens, or $0.234 per 1M tokens at the mix of tokens agents send (87% cache read, 12% input, 1% output), unchanged since yesterday and unchanged over the past week. Since Oct 8, 2026 its price at the mix has ranged from $0.191 to $0.234. It carries 93.1% of StepFun's API tokens and is one of the 2 models in the StepFun token price index, $0.223 per 1M tokens today. Of the 34 models in the token index it is the 12th most expensive. At today's H100 rental price of $3.71 per GPU-hour, its break-even throughput is 724 tokens per second per GPU at its list price (3 input : 1 output). Prices are collected once a day, for each UTC day.

Models near this price

  • GPT-6.1 Terra (OpenAI): $0.213 per 1M tokens at the mix, $1.00 input and $5.00 output
  • Nemotron 3 Ultra (NVIDIA): $0.200 per 1M tokens at the mix, $0.60 input and $2.40 output
  • Gemini 3.8 Flash (Google): $0.193 per 1M tokens at the mix, $0.75 input and $3.75 output
  • Gemini 3.7 Flash (Google): $0.193 per 1M tokens at the mix, $0.75 input and $3.75 output
  • Mistral Large 4 (Mistral): $0.166 per 1M tokens at the mix, $0.70 input and $2.10 output
  • Qwen3.8 27B (Alibaba): $0.150 per 1M tokens at the mix, $0.425 input and $2.55 output

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