Step 3.7 Flash

StepFun released 2026-05-28

$0.438 per million tokens, balanced

Qwen3.6 35B A3B is both better and cheaper.

It scores +1.2 higher and costs 19% less ($0.355/M against $0.438/M) on this workload — and it does everything this model does.

DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 is cheaper still (76% less) but drops no image, video input.

Every price dimension

Input$0.200/M
Output$1.15/M
Cached input$0.040/M

Independent scores

Intelligence30.9
Coding39.6
Agentic21.7

Sources are listed separately rather than averaged. Across the 62 models both have scored they correlate at r = 0.806 — close agreement overall, but four models rank very differently between them, and a blended score would hide exactly those.

Best rankings by task

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Capability

Context window262K
Max output256K
Input modestext, image, video
Tool useyes
Reasoningalways on

Provenance

Price sourceopenrouter.ai
Fetched2026-08-24
Quality dataverified

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...

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