Step 3.5 Flash
StepFun's most capable open-source reasoning model with visible reasoning traces. Built on a sparse Mixture-of-Experts architecture with 196B total parameters and only 11B active per token, it achieves frontier-level performance in math, logic, and agentic coding while reaching up to 350 tokens/sec. Supports 256K context. NOTE: This model runs via StepFun, which may log and train on your prompts.
- Reasoning
Added Feb 2, 2026
Model weightsPricing
Auto routing · per 1M tokens- Input
- $0.10
- Output
- $0.30
- Cache read
- $0.05
Specifications
- Context window
- 256K
- Max output
- 256K
- Parameters
- 196B / 11B
- Total / active
Benchmarks
Benchmarks
Sourced from LMArena.
Arena Score
1392.8
Overall Rank
#176 / 421
Votes
59,777
Confidence Interval
1389.3 - 1396.4
Category Scores
Coding
#162 / 416
15,074 votes
1449.0
Math
#155 / 404
3,403 votes
1405.7
Longer Query
#173 / 399
22,531 votes
1403.1
Creative Writing
#188 / 419
9,647 votes
1344.8
Instruction Following
#174 / 421
19,075 votes
1384.1
Hard Prompts
#181 / 421
37,189 votes
1412.2
Additional Categories22
Japanese
#139 / 288
641 votes
1351.3
German
#140 / 320
1,069 votes
1393.1
Industry Mathematical
#141 / 401
3,116 votes
1419.9
Spanish
#145 / 303
2,005 votes
1403.8
Expert
#153 / 371
5,247 votes
1428.3
Korean
#157 / 289
1,073 votes
1339.7
French
#158 / 301
2,040 votes
1413.3
Chinese
#161 / 395
3,607 votes
1431.4
Industry Software And It Services
#165 / 421
22,592 votes
1437.0
Polish
#169 / 244
1,364 votes
1369.1
English
#175 / 421
25,049 votes
1408.8
Multi Turn
#175 / 419
10,329 votes
1396.1
Hard Prompts English
#176 / 419
16,111 votes
1423.1
Industry Business And Management And Financial Operations
#177 / 414
11,744 votes
1390.4
Exclude Ties
#178 / 421
43,530 votes
1371.2
Non English
#179 / 421
34,725 votes
1374.0
Industry Life And Physical And Social Science
#182 / 419
9,669 votes
1404.4
Industry Writing And Literature And Language
#183 / 420
14,620 votes
1365.4
Russian
#186 / 385
7,371 votes
1375.0
Industry Legal And Government
#187 / 393
4,612 votes
1394.8
Industry Entertainment And Sports And Media
#188 / 419
11,945 votes
1347.7
Industry Medicine And Healthcare
#190 / 390
4,184 votes
1398.1
Published 2026-11-09 · Matched as Step-3.5-Flash · CC BY 4.0
LMArena DatasetLeaderboard results
| Benchmark | Score | Rank on NanoGPT |
|---|---|---|
UGI Leaderboard UGI Leaderboard data, Apache-2.0 · Updated Oct 16, 2026 | ||
UGI Score | 40.8 | #74 of 149 |
UGI Willingness | 2.5 | #98 of 149 |
UGI Writing | 45.9 | #66 of 149 |
Filtered and ranked to models on NanoGPT.
Providers
Auto routing is available for this model. Explicit provider selection is not available.
Recommended | $0.10 | $0.30 | $0.05 | N/A | N/A |
Batch rows for this model use normal routing and cost the same as standard API requests. Set provider in a row to choose a provider.