Step 3 VL 10B is StepFun's language model. A 10B-parameter vision-language model from StepFun capable of understanding and reasoning over both images and text.
Specifications
Canonical IDstep-3-10b-vl
TypeLanguage
StatusActive
CreatorStepFunStepFun
Input ModalitiesText
Output ModalitiesText
Parameters10B
Benchmarks
Intelligence Index
#386
GPQA
#278
HLE
#220
IFBench
#183
Time to First Token
#296
SciCode
#299
LCR
#473
TerminalBench Hard
#272
TAU2
#359
Output TPS
#525

Capabilities

Input1/5
Text
Image·
Audio·
Video·
PDF·
Output1/5
Text
Image·
Audio·
Video·
Embedding·
Capabilities0/13
Reasoning·
Adaptive Reasoning·
Function Calling·
Parallel Function Calling·
Structured Outputs·
Native JSON Schema·
Web Search·
URL Context·
Computer Use·
Code Execution·
File Search·
Prompt Caching·
Assistant Prefill·

Cheapest Instances to Run It

Cloud GPU instances that can host Step 3 VL 10B, ranked by cheapest on-demand price. The model needs about 24 GB of GPU memory at FP16 precision (estimated from its parameter count), so treat the fit as guidance rather than a guarantee.

All clouds
FP16 (full precision)
US Dollar ($)
Instance
Cloud
GPU
VRAM
Price
Cheapest region
Standard_NV16as_v4AzureAMD Radeon Instinct MI2532 GB$0.932/hr
Standard_NC8ads_A10_v4AzureNVIDIA A1024 GB$1.10/hr
Standard_NC24lds_xl_RTXPRO6000BSE_v6AzureNvidia RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPU (96GB)24 GB$1.13/hr
7 more instances can run Step 3 VL 10B
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Versions

VersionReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1MStatus
Step 5 Preview1.0M$1.00$2.70Available
Step 5 PreviewAvailable
Step 3.7 Flash262K$0.200$1.15Available
Step 3 VL 10BCurrent
Step Image Edit 2Available
Step 1X Edit 1.2Available
Step 1X EditAvailable

Model IDs

step-3-10b-vl
step-3-vl-10b