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Step 5 Preview

StepFun’s flagship preview for agentic and professional work, with a 92-block narrow-and-deep Transformer interleaving Gated Sliding Window Attention and Sparse GQA full-attention layers; 600B total parameters, 27B active, and a 1M-token context.

PreviewLanguageReasoningCodingAgentMultimodalOpen weights

StepFun released the weights on 2026-10-15; official Hugging Face repositories provide FP8, BF16, and NVFP4 checkpoints. The model remains in Preview under the StepFun Model License 1.0 with usage conditions.

MODEL NUMBER397
First public date
2026-09-20
Organization
StepFun
Family
Step
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Specifications

Only published specifications are shown.

Total parameters
600B↗
Active parameters
27B↗
Architecture
MoE↗
Context
1,000,000 tokens↗
Input modalities
Text · Image↗
Output modalities
Text↗
Open weights
Yes↗
License
StepFun Model License 1.0↗
Status
Preview↗
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Overview

Release dates

— Step 5 Preview entered product and API preview on StepFun; open weights are not yet released. ↗ — StepFun opened Step 5 Preview weights on the announced date; FP8, BF16, and NVFP4 checkpoints are accessible under its official organization, with the StepFun Model License 1.0. The model remains in Preview. ↗

Why it mattered

Step 5 Preview remains in product/API preview alongside its announced weight release; StepFun has also disclosed its deep attention design and long-horizon agent training methods. Open weights do not imply GA.

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Specifications alongside predecessor

Compared with Step 3.7 Flash ↗

PreviousStep 3.7 Flash198B · 256K ctx
CurrentStep 5 Preview600B · 1M ctx
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Architecture & capabilities

Model capabilities

ReasoningCodingTool useLong contextVision

Connected tools

Computer use
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Release history

Preview

Step 5 Preview entered product and API preview on StepFun; open weights are not yet released.

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Open weights

StepFun opened Step 5 Preview weights on the announced date; FP8, BF16, and NVFP4 checkpoints are accessible under its official organization, with the StepFun Model License 1.0. The model remains in Preview.

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