StepFun: Step 3.5 Flash (free)

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256K

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Input price

$0.000 / 1M

Output price

$0.000 / 1M

Identifiers & provenance

Primary ID: stepfun/step-3.5-flash:free
OpenRouter ID: stepfun/step-3.5-flash:free
Canonical slug: stepfun/step-3.5-flash

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Description

Step 3.5 Flash is StepFun's most capable open-source foundation model. Built on a sparse Mixture of Experts (MoE) architecture, it selectively activates only 11B of its 196B parameters per token. It is a reasoning model that is incredibly speed efficient even at long contexts.

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