Step 3.5 Flash is StepFun's language model with a 262K context window and up to 66K output tokens, available from 2 providers, starting at $0.09 / 1M input and $0.3 / 1M output. An open-source Mixture-of-Experts reasoning model from StepFun with 196B total parameters (11B active), featuring a 256K context window and tool-calling support.
Specifications
Canonical IDstep-3-5-flash
TypeLanguage
StatusDeprecated
CreatorStepFunStepFun
Providers
Context Window262K tokens
Max Output66K tokens
Input ModalitiesText
Output ModalitiesText
Reasoning Effortsdefault
Parameters199B
HuggingFace Likes783
HuggingFace Downloads (30d)147,877
HuggingFace Downloads (all-time)532,020
Release Date · 6 months ago
Deprecation Date
Benchmarks
Intelligence Index
25.5
#128
GPQA
0.8
#93
HLE
0.2
#86
IFBench
0.6
#91
Time to First Token
0.74s
#326
SciCode
0.4
#132
LCR
0.4
#182
TerminalBench Hard
0.3
#110
TAU2
0.9
#71
Output TPS

Capabilities

Input1/5
Text
Image·
Audio·
Video·
PDF·
Output1/5
Text
Image·
Audio·
Video·
Embedding·
Capabilities4/13
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·

Pricing by Provider

US Dollar ($)
Per 1M tokens
ProviderStandard
Input
$ / 1M
Output
$ / 1M
Cache Read
$ / 1M
OpenRouter logo
OpenRouter
stepfun/step-3.5-flash
$0.1$0.3N/A
Vercel AI Gateway logo
Vercel AI Gateway
stepfun/step-3.5-flash
$0.09$0.3$0.02

Cost Calculator

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Cheapest Instances to Run It

Cloud GPU instances that can host Step 3.5 Flash, ranked by cheapest on-demand price. The model needs about 479 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)
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Cloud
GPU
VRAM
Price
Cheapest region
p4de.24xlargeAWS8× A100640 GB$27.45/hrus-east-1
Standard_ND96amsr_A100_v4Azure8× NVIDIA A100 (80GB)640 GB$32.77/hrwestus2
g7e.48xlargeAWS8× RTX PRO Server 6000768 GB$33.14/hrus-east-1
7 more instances can run Step 3.5 Flash
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Model IDs

step-3-5-flash
step-3-5-flash-0202
stepfun-ai/Step-3.5-Flash
stepfun/step-3.5-flash