Model price changes detected for Alibaba, Morph, Parasail, PrimeIntellect, Relace, StepFun, Tencent and Wafer. Details below.
November 5, 2026 at 2:32 AM
Model price changes detected for Alibaba, Morph, Parasail, PrimeIntellect, Relace, StepFun, Tencent and Wafer. Details below.
I visited @StepFun_ai's Shanghai office yesterday and had such a great time. Everyone was so welcoming, and they handled even my tougher questions with a smile. A powerful new model from StepFun might be just around the corner 👀👀 Thanks to @cherry_gong3 for inviting me!
November 4, 2026 at 8:56 AM
I visited @StepFun_ai's Shanghai office yesterday and had such a great time. Everyone was so welcoming, and they handled even my tougher questions with a smile. A powerful new model from StepFun might be just around the corner 👀👀 Thanks to @cherry_gong3 for inviting me!
StepFun moved its pricing page, so we rechecked it. Step 5 Preview: $1 in, $2.70 out per 1M. A 20M in plus 5M out month is about $33.50, vs about $46 on DeepSeek V4 Pro at peak. Step 3.5 Flash does that month for $3.50.
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StepFun API pricing: Step 5 Preview, 3.7 Flash, rate limits
StepFun API pricing per 1M tokens: Step 5 Preview $1 in, $2.70 out, Step 3.5 Flash $0.10, cache prices and rate limit tiers.
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November 1, 2026 at 2:19 PM
StepFun moved its pricing page, so we rechecked it. Step 5 Preview: $1 in, $2.70 out per 1M. A 20M in plus 5M out month is about $33.50, vs about $46 on DeepSeek V4 Pro at peak. Step 3.5 Flash does that month for $3.50.
limitdigest.com/guides/stepfun-api-pricing
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Model price changes detected for DeepSeek, Morph, PrimeIntellect, Relace, StepFun and Wafer. Details below.
November 3, 2026 at 6:32 AM
Model price changes detected for DeepSeek, Morph, PrimeIntellect, Relace, StepFun and Wafer. Details below.
Halving billing granularity without moving the headline rate genuinely helps: a two-second reply no longer burns a full session minute. But jitter still rounds up, so a flaky stream can quietly undo the saving. Worth testing against your own traffic before trusting it.
StepFun Changes Billing Unit for stepaudio-3-realtime
StepFun's pricing page for stepaudio-3-realtime now bills per second rather than per minute, while the rate stays at 0.65 yuan per session minute (39.00 yuan per session hour).
aichina.news
November 4, 2026 at 5:47 PM
Halving billing granularity without moving the headline rate genuinely helps: a two-second reply no longer burns a full session minute. But jitter still rounds up, so a flaky stream can quietly undo the saving. Worth testing against your own traffic before trusting it.
Tripling ASR throughput while everyone else trims is a strange direction, and with no stated reason the ratios stay indicative. Anyone running StepAudio in production will know if this is real demand or a quiet repositioning.
StepFun Raises Prices Across StepAudio-2.5 API Models
StepFun has raised prices on five StepAudio-2.5 models in its API pricing table, including stepaudio-2.5-chat, whose output price moves from 25 yuan to 32 yuan, and stepaudio-2.5-realtime, from 70 yuan to 90 yuan.
aichina.news
October 31, 2026 at 12:12 PM
Tripling ASR throughput while everyone else trims is a strange direction, and with no stated reason the ratios stay indicative. Anyone running StepAudio in production will know if this is real demand or a quiet repositioning.
A rounder number on a pricing page is not a price war. The detection also carries a date in 2026 — worth treating the row as unconfirmed until StepFun says otherwise. Anyone actually billing step-asr hourly would know better than the docs page whether this is real.
StepFun Adjusts step-asr Pricing on Its Platform
StepFun's pricing documentation now lists step-asr at 0.90 yuan per hour, changed from the previous 0.9 yuan per hour. The change appears on the company's platform pricing page.
aichina.news
October 31, 2026 at 12:03 PM
A rounder number on a pricing page is not a price war. The detection also carries a date in 2026 — worth treating the row as unconfirmed until StepFun says otherwise. Anyone actually billing step-asr hourly would know better than the docs page whether this is real.
Ninety yuan per million characters works out to the same rate as before — 0.9 per 10,000 — so this reads as a unit change, not a price rise. The docs give one field and nothing on voices, latency or quality. Anyone who's actually billed step-tts-mini at scale can say whether the invoice moved.
StepFun Raises Price of step-tts-mini to 90 Yuan per Million Characters
StepFun has changed the price of its step-tts-mini speech model in its pricing table, from 0.9 yuan per 10,000 characters to 90 yuan per million characters.
aichina.news
October 31, 2026 at 12:10 PM
Ninety yuan per million characters works out to the same rate as before — 0.9 per 10,000 — so this reads as a unit change, not a price rise. The docs give one field and nothing on voices, latency or quality. Anyone who's actually billed step-tts-mini at scale can say whether the invoice moved.
Honor's agents drive the screen directly — taps and swipes, no app opt-in — the opposite of Apple's intents route. Awkward that ByteDance and Alibaba build the agents and own the apps they'd bypass. Hard to see this surviving payment flows until OEMs eat the liability.
AI 'kills' the app as Chinese manufacturers rewrite the smartphone
While Apple and Google cram ever more AI features into their app-centric phones, Chinese manufacturers such as ZTE, StepFun and Honor are building handsets where an AI agent replaces the app layer altogether. The piece argues that because Chinese OEMs have no stake in the app economy, they can disrupt it — and export their model to the world.
aichina.news
November 1, 2026 at 8:02 PM
Honor's agents drive the screen directly — taps and swipes, no app opt-in — the opposite of Apple's intents route. Awkward that ByteDance and Alibaba build the agents and own the apps they'd bypass. Hard to see this surviving payment flows until OEMs eat the liability.
Ten yuan a voice is cheap enough to try, and 280 yuan per million characters undercuts most Western APIs. But parity with the old rate reads like billing tidying, not a real cut. Unlikely to move production teams off Qwen until independent quality evals land.
StepFun Adds Voice Cloning Fee and Raises step-tts-2 Price
StepFun's pricing page lists a 10 yuan per voice cloning fee for its TTS models and shows step-tts-2 at 280 yuan per million characters, up from 2.8 yuan per ten thousand characters.
aichina.news
October 31, 2026 at 12:08 PM
Ten yuan a voice is cheap enough to try, and 280 yuan per million characters undercuts most Western APIs. But parity with the old rate reads like billing tidying, not a real cut. Unlikely to move production teams off Qwen until independent quality evals land.
2.00 yuan an hour undercuts most ASR endpoints, and StepFun's stack has been solid since stepaudio-2. But no effective date and no split input/output lines make this a restatement, not a cut. Hard to see it beating self-hosted Whisper on volume until we know what 2.00 covers.
StepFun Raises stepaudio-2-asr-pro Price to 2.00 Yuan per Hour
StepFun's pricing page now lists stepaudio-2-asr-pro at 2.00 yuan per hour, up from 2 yuan per hour in the earlier entry shown in its pricing documentation.
aichina.news
October 31, 2026 at 12:11 PM
2.00 yuan an hour undercuts most ASR endpoints, and StepFun's stack has been solid since stepaudio-2. But no effective date and no split input/output lines make this a restatement, not a cut. Hard to see it beating self-hosted Whisper on volume until we know what 2.00 covers.
StepFun's audio API now lists 2.00/10.00/105.00, a rate card with no unit or currency attached — fine if you already know the denominator, useless if you don't. Hard to price this against Qwen's audio stack until the docs say what a call actually costs.
StepFun Updates Pricing for step-audio-r1.5 in Its API Pricing Table
StepFun's pricing page now lists step-audio-r1.5 at 2.00 yuan per unit for cache-hit input, 10.00 yuan for cache-miss input and 105.00 yuan for output under pay-as-you-go billing.
aichina.news
October 31, 2026 at 12:07 PM
StepFun's audio API now lists 2.00/10.00/105.00, a rate card with no unit or currency attached — fine if you already know the denominator, useless if you don't. Hard to price this against Qwen's audio stack until the docs say what a call actually costs.
Doubling ASR pricing without a changelog is a strange signal from a lab competing on cost with Qwen and DeepSeek — no notice period, no note on what changed under the hood. If you run step-asr-1.1-stream in production, a dated row is thin cover for staying.
StepFun Raises Price of step-asr-1.1-stream to 5.50 Yuan per Hour
StepFun's pricing page now lists step-asr-1.1-stream at 5.50 yuan per hour, up from 2.6 yuan, while step-asr-1.1 shows 2.20 yuan per hour where it previously showed 2.2 yuan.
aichina.news
October 31, 2026 at 12:04 PM
Doubling ASR pricing without a changelog is a strange signal from a lab competing on cost with Qwen and DeepSeek — no notice period, no note on what changed under the hood. If you run step-asr-1.1-stream in production, a dated row is thin cover for staying.
Cheap cached audio input at 5 yuan genuinely shifts batch economics against Qwen-Audio. But a table with no unit or date is a spec sheet, not a commitment — decimals moving tell you little. Anyone billed for step-1o-audio should say if these survive an invoice.
StepFun Updates Pricing Table Entries for step-1o-audio
StepFun's pricing page now lists step-1o-audio at 5.00 yuan for cached input, 25.00 yuan for uncached input and 60.00 yuan for output, shown with two decimal places where the earlier values used whole numbers.
aichina.news
October 31, 2026 at 11:54 AM
Cheap cached audio input at 5 yuan genuinely shifts batch economics against Qwen-Audio. But a table with no unit or date is a spec sheet, not a commitment — decimals moving tell you little. Anyone billed for step-1o-audio should say if these survive an invoice.
Step Code: StepFun이 Pi 코딩 에이전트에 서브에이전트와 웹 페이지 배포를 더한 터미널 코딩 에이전트
핵심 요약
• Step Code는 StepFun이 공개한 터미널 코딩 에이전트로, 오픈소스 코딩 에이전트 Pi에서 파생된 프로젝트입니다. Pi가 기본 기능에서 뺀 서브에이전트와 계획 모드를 내장하고, 목표 기반 장시간 실행과 예약 실행을 더했습니다.
• 기본 경로는 StepFun 계정(Step Plan 구독 또는 API 키)으로 Step 5 Preview 같은 Step 모델을 쓰는 것입니다. 문서에 따르면 Ant…
핵심 요약
• Step Code는 StepFun이 공개한 터미널 코딩 에이전트로, 오픈소스 코딩 에이전트 Pi에서 파생된 프로젝트입니다. Pi가 기본 기능에서 뺀 서브에이전트와 계획 모드를 내장하고, 목표 기반 장시간 실행과 예약 실행을 더했습니다.
• 기본 경로는 StepFun 계정(Step Plan 구독 또는 API 키)으로 Step 5 Preview 같은 Step 모델을 쓰는 것입니다. 문서에 따르면 Ant…
Step Code: StepFun이 Pi 코딩 에이전트에 서브에이전트와 웹 페이지 배포를 더한 터미널 코딩 에이전트
핵심 요약
• Step Code는 StepFun이 공개한 터미널 코딩 에이전트로, 오픈소스 코딩 에이전트 Pi에서 파생된 프로젝트입니다. Pi가 기본 기능에서 뺀 서브에이전트와 계획 모드를 내장하고, 목표 기반 장시간 실행과 예약 실행을 더했습니다.
• 기본 경로는 StepFun 계정(Step Plan 구독 또는 API 키)으로 Step 5 Preview 같은 Step 모델을 쓰는 것입니다. 문서에 따르면 Anthropic, OpenAI의 API 키나 Ollama, vLLM 같은 로컬 엔드포인트도 연결할 수 있습니다.
• 내장 StepPage 플러그인은 로컬에서 만든 정적 웹 페이지를 공개 URL로 배포하고 이전 버전으로 되돌립니다. Claude Code의 MCP 설정과 플러그인, Agent Skills도 대부분 그대로 읽어 들입니다.
• StepFun은 같은 St...
discuss.pytorch.kr
October 27, 2026 at 2:35 AM
Step Code: StepFun이 Pi 코딩 에이전트에 서브에이전트와 웹 페이지 배포를 더한 터미널 코딩 에이전트
핵심 요약
• Step Code는 StepFun이 공개한 터미널 코딩 에이전트로, 오픈소스 코딩 에이전트 Pi에서 파생된 프로젝트입니다. Pi가 기본 기능에서 뺀 서브에이전트와 계획 모드를 내장하고, 목표 기반 장시간 실행과 예약 실행을 더했습니다.
• 기본 경로는 StepFun 계정(Step Plan 구독 또는 API 키)으로 Step 5 Preview 같은 Step 모델을 쓰는 것입니다. 문서에 따르면 Ant…
핵심 요약
• Step Code는 StepFun이 공개한 터미널 코딩 에이전트로, 오픈소스 코딩 에이전트 Pi에서 파생된 프로젝트입니다. Pi가 기본 기능에서 뺀 서브에이전트와 계획 모드를 내장하고, 목표 기반 장시간 실행과 예약 실행을 더했습니다.
• 기본 경로는 StepFun 계정(Step Plan 구독 또는 API 키)으로 Step 5 Preview 같은 Step 모델을 쓰는 것입니다. 문서에 따르면 Ant…
Notable entries for MaaS limits here: Minimax, Moonshot (Kimi), Alibaba (largest Qwens), Stepfun, Zhipu (full GLM 5.3), Meta (Muse Spark Open). Probably some smaller labs too.
Actually more than I expected now that I actually checked it. Also, didn't expect Meta to be on this list tbh.
Actually more than I expected now that I actually checked it. Also, didn't expect Meta to be on this list tbh.
October 26, 2026 at 6:46 PM
Notable entries for MaaS limits here: Minimax, Moonshot (Kimi), Alibaba (largest Qwens), Stepfun, Zhipu (full GLM 5.3), Meta (Muse Spark Open). Probably some smaller labs too.
Actually more than I expected now that I actually checked it. Also, didn't expect Meta to be on this list tbh.
Actually more than I expected now that I actually checked it. Also, didn't expect Meta to be on this list tbh.
StepFun, Step 5 Preview 가중치 공개: H200 8장에서 도는 FP8 체크포인트 (단, 상업적 사용 시 별도 계약 필요)
핵심 요약
• StepFun이 10월 15일 Step 5 Preview의 FP8 가중치와 BF16, NVFP4 가중치를 Hugging Face에 공개했고, 같은 날 구조와 학습 방법을 설명한 기술 블로그도 냈습니다.
• FP8 체크포인트는 약 650GB이고, 모델 카드가 예시로 든 최소 구성은 H200 8장 또는 B300 4장입니다. BF16은 약 1.21TB라 H200 16장(노드 2대)…
핵심 요약
• StepFun이 10월 15일 Step 5 Preview의 FP8 가중치와 BF16, NVFP4 가중치를 Hugging Face에 공개했고, 같은 날 구조와 학습 방법을 설명한 기술 블로그도 냈습니다.
• FP8 체크포인트는 약 650GB이고, 모델 카드가 예시로 든 최소 구성은 H200 8장 또는 B300 4장입니다. BF16은 약 1.21TB라 H200 16장(노드 2대)…
StepFun, Step 5 Preview 가중치 공개: H200 8장에서 도는 FP8 체크포인트 (단, 상업적 사용 시 별도 계약 필요)
핵심 요약
• StepFun이 10월 15일 Step 5 Preview의 FP8 가중치와 BF16, NVFP4 가중치를 Hugging Face에 공개했고, 같은 날 구조와 학습 방법을 설명한 기술 블로그도 냈습니다.
• FP8 체크포인트는 약 650GB이고, 모델 카드가 예시로 든 최소 구성은 H200 8장 또는 B300 4장입니다. BF16은 약 1.21TB라 H200 16장(노드 2대)이나 B300 8장이 필요합니다.
• 10월 23일 기준으로 vLLM 정식 릴리스(v0.32.0)와 SGLang 릴리스에는 Step 5 지원이 아직 들어 있지 않아, 지금은 StepFun이 안내한 전용 Docker 이미지로 서빙해야 합니다.
• 라이선스는 Apac...
discuss.pytorch.kr
October 26, 2026 at 2:35 AM
StepFun, Step 5 Preview 가중치 공개: H200 8장에서 도는 FP8 체크포인트 (단, 상업적 사용 시 별도 계약 필요)
핵심 요약
• StepFun이 10월 15일 Step 5 Preview의 FP8 가중치와 BF16, NVFP4 가중치를 Hugging Face에 공개했고, 같은 날 구조와 학습 방법을 설명한 기술 블로그도 냈습니다.
• FP8 체크포인트는 약 650GB이고, 모델 카드가 예시로 든 최소 구성은 H200 8장 또는 B300 4장입니다. BF16은 약 1.21TB라 H200 16장(노드 2대)…
핵심 요약
• StepFun이 10월 15일 Step 5 Preview의 FP8 가중치와 BF16, NVFP4 가중치를 Hugging Face에 공개했고, 같은 날 구조와 학습 방법을 설명한 기술 블로그도 냈습니다.
• FP8 체크포인트는 약 650GB이고, 모델 카드가 예시로 든 최소 구성은 H200 8장 또는 B300 4장입니다. BF16은 약 1.21TB라 H200 16장(노드 2대)…
StepFun released Step 5 Preview weights: a 600B mixture-of-experts agent model, 27B active, 1M-token context, image input. Self-hosting needs a full 8x H200 node, and the license adds commercial conditions. https://foundermag.co/launches/step-5-preview-open-weights/ #AI #OpenSource
October 19, 2026 at 5:15 PM
StepFun released Step 5 Preview weights: a 600B mixture-of-experts agent model, 27B active, 1M-token context, image input. Self-hosting needs a full 8x H200 node, and the license adds commercial conditions. https://foundermag.co/launches/step-5-preview-open-weights/ #AI #OpenSource
📰 **StepFun Releases Step 5 Preview Open Weights: 600B MoE, 27B Active, 1M Context**
StepFun has released Step 5 Preview as open weights. FP8 and BF16 checkpoints are live on Hugging Face and ModelScope. Step 5 Preview is a sparse Mixture-of-Experts model from StepFun built for lon...
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StepFun has released Step 5 Preview as open weights. FP8 and BF16 checkpoints are live on Hugging Face and ModelScope. Step 5 Preview is a sparse Mixture-of-Experts model from StepFun built for lon...
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October 19, 2026 at 6:48 AM
📰 **StepFun Releases Step 5 Preview Open Weights: 600B MoE, 27B Active, 1M Context**
StepFun has released Step 5 Preview as open weights. FP8 and BF16 checkpoints are live on Hugging Face and ModelScope. Step 5 Preview is a sparse Mixture-of-Experts model from StepFun built for lon...
📰 Source […]
StepFun has released Step 5 Preview as open weights. FP8 and BF16 checkpoints are live on Hugging Face and ModelScope. Step 5 Preview is a sparse Mixture-of-Experts model from StepFun built for lon...
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ChineseStartup StepFun Launches PhoneBuilt Around an AI Agent, Decrypt Reports
https://newisty.com/blog/chinesestartup-stepfun-launches-phonebuilt-around-an-ai-agent-decrypt-reports?utm_source=social&utm_campaign=crypto_news
#stepfun #ai #smartphone
https://newisty.com/blog/chinesestartup-stepfun-launches-phonebuilt-around-an-ai-agent-decrypt-reports?utm_source=social&utm_campaign=crypto_news
#stepfun #ai #smartphone
October 18, 2026 at 10:16 AM
ChineseStartup StepFun Launches PhoneBuilt Around an AI Agent, Decrypt Reports
https://newisty.com/blog/chinesestartup-stepfun-launches-phonebuilt-around-an-ai-agent-decrypt-reports?utm_source=social&utm_campaign=crypto_news
#stepfun #ai #smartphone
https://newisty.com/blog/chinesestartup-stepfun-launches-phonebuilt-around-an-ai-agent-decrypt-reports?utm_source=social&utm_campaign=crypto_news
#stepfun #ai #smartphone
Chinese Startup StepFun Launches a Phone Built Around an AI Agent
Chinese Startup StepFun Launches a Phone Built Around an AI Agent
chuckyscarnage.tech.blog
October 17, 2026 at 8:20 PM
Chinese Startup StepFun Launches a Phone Built Around an AI Agent
StepFun Debuts Phone Centered On An AI Agent, Not Apps Introduction: A New Paradigm for Smartphones Imagine the next wave of smartphones defined not by.... @thecosmicmeta.com
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StepFun Debuts Phone Centered On An AI Agent, Not Apps
Introduction: A New Paradigm for Smartphones Imagine the next wave of smartphones defined not by faster chips or brighter cameras
thecosmicmeta.com
October 18, 2026 at 10:13 AM
StepFun Debuts Phone Centered On An AI Agent, Not Apps Introduction: A New Paradigm for Smartphones Imagine the next wave of smartphones defined not by.... @thecosmicmeta.com
https://u2m.io/uVBdeheo
https://u2m.io/uVBdeheo
🚨 BREAKING: StepFun unveils STEPX Neo in China for 3,999 ¥, embedding an AI agent directly into the OS. The move eliminates app‑store silos and could give users a single conversational gateway to wallets and DeFi. Full breakdown: https://www.yourweb3guy.com/news/stepfun-kills-the-app-store-the-ai-ag
October 17, 2026 at 3:43 PM
🚨 BREAKING: StepFun unveils STEPX Neo in China for 3,999 ¥, embedding an AI agent directly into the OS. The move eliminates app‑store silos and could give users a single conversational gateway to wallets and DeFi. Full breakdown: https://www.yourweb3guy.com/news/stepfun-kills-the-app-store-the-ai-ag