StepFun's Step 5 Preview launches on OpenRouter at $1.00/$2.70 per million tokens, with a free week in partner tools
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StepFun@StepFun_aiStep 5 Preview free in Cline for one week, StepFun saysAIStepFun's flagship model Step 5 Preview is free to use in Cline for one week. The quoted background says it scores ahead of Kimi K3 and GLM-5.3 on DeepSWE, positioning it among the strongest open-weights coding models.
Cline@clineCline makes Step 5 Preview free, citing strong DeepSWE coding scoresAICline says Step 5 Preview is now free in its coding tool and scores ahead of Kimi K3 and GLM-5.3 on DeepSWE. The company describes it as one of the strongest open-weights coding models available. StepFun's background announcement describes Step 5 Preview as a 600B total / 27B active MoE model with 1M context and vision, and says open weights arrive on Oct 15.
- StepFun@StepFun_aiStepFun offers Step 5 Preview free in OpenCode for one week
AIStepFun is offering its flagship Step 5 Preview model free in OpenCode for one week, targeting agentic and professional work. The preview supports a 1M context window, multimodal input, and zero data retention.
OpenCode@opencodeOpenCode offers Step 5 Preview free for a weekAIOpenCode is offering free access to its Step 5 Preview for one week. The announcement highlights a 1M context window, multimodal support, and zero data retention.
OpenRouter@OpenRouterStepFun's Step 5 Preview is now available on OpenRouterAIOpenRouter says StepFun's Step 5 Preview is now live on its platform, priced at $1.00 per million input tokens and $2.70 per million output tokens. Cache hits are 50% off at launch, bringing them to $0.05 per million, and a week of free access is rolling out across partners including opencode, Cline, Nous Research, and Kilo Code.
- OpenRouter@OpenRouterStepFun's Step 5 Preview launches on OpenRouter as agentic flagship
AIStepFun's Step 5 Preview is now live on OpenRouter as the company's new flagship for agentic work. It uses a sparse MoE design with 27B active and 600B total parameters, a 1M context window, and accepts text, image, and video input. The post highlights strength in coding and professional knowledge work, especially finance.
- StepFun@StepFun_aiPickStepFun's Step 5 Preview is live on OpenRouter with a week of free access
AIStepFun says Step 5 Preview is now available on OpenRouter, with a week of free access rolling out across OpenCode, Cline, Nous Research, Kilo Code, and other tools. The company describes it as flagship-tier intelligence for agentic and professional work at substantially lower task cost, letting users switch models without changing their workflow.
