StepFun: Step 5 Preview by Stepfun — $1.00 input / $2.70 output per 1M tokens via OpenRouter. Context: 1.0M tokens. Pricing last updated Oct 29, 2026.
| Usage | Daily | Monthly |
|---|---|---|
| Chatbot (100/day) | $0.388 | $11.63 |
| Small app (1K/day) | $2.35 | $70.50 |
| Mid-scale (10K/day) | $33.50 | $1005.00 |
| Large scale (100K/day) | $770.00 | $23100.00 |
stepfun/step-5-previewStepFun: Step 5 Preview is an LLM developed by Stepfun. Input costs $1.00 per million tokens and output costs $2.70 per million tokens via OpenRouter. It supports a context window of 1.0M tokens.
Via the OpenRouter API:
A token is roughly 0.75 words. For context: a typical user message of 100 words is approximately 133 tokens; a 500-word system prompt is about 650 tokens.
For a typical chatbot application (1,000 requests/day, 1,000 prompt tokens and 500 output tokens per request):
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