Step 3.5 Flash
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....
Updated 6 h ago · first seen 11 Sept 2026
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Overview
Identity
Identity block not returned by the API for this entity.
Openness
Openness not classified yet — no sourced evidence to place this model in the ontology.
Key facts
- Release date
Source:OpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2observed 13 h agomedium
- Status
Source:Artificial AnalysisT2observed 11 h agomedium
- Openrouter id
Source:OpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2observed 13 h agomedium
Architecture
- Hugging Face repo
Source:OpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2observed 13 h agomedium
Capabilities
Modalities
- Modalities
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- Input
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- Output
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Capabilities
Tool calling
Yes
OpenRouter public model & pricing listing · T2
Structured output
No
OpenRouter public model & pricing listing · T2
Reasoning
Yes
OpenRouter public model & pricing listing · T2
Vision
Unavailable
Audio
Unavailable
Fine-tuning available
Unavailable
- Context window
Source:OpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2observed 10 h agomedium
- Max output
Source:OpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2observed 13 h agomedium
Benchmarks6
Compare with another model →Comparable same task and conditions · Partially comparable same task, conditions differ (effort, temperature, judge) · Not comparable different variant or metric
No benchmark results recorded
Providers & Pricing1
All offers in the price terminal →USD per 1M tokens as published by each provider (USD). Rows are append-only: every change is kept in the history below.
Price history
Output price · USD / 1M tokens 1 provider
- OpenRouter
- OpenRouterfirst observed $0.3011 Sept 2026
Input price · USD / 1M tokens 1 provider
- OpenRouter
- OpenRouterfirst observed $0.1011 Sept 2026
Lineage
Open in Graph →- descendant: Step-3.5-Flash-REAP-121B-A11B
- descendant: Step-3.5-Flash-REAP-149B-A11B
Timeline10
Full timeline →Step 3.5 Flash: context length changed from 256000 to 262144
Context window256K tokens→262.1K tokensopenrouterStep 3.5 Flash scores 27.27% on Terminal-Bench
artificial_analysisStep 3.5 Flash scores 94.44% on τ²-bench
artificial_analysisStep 3.5 Flash scores 64.56% on IFBench
artificial_analysisStep 3.5 Flash scores 21.13% on Humanity's Last Exam
artificial_analysisStep 3.5 Flash scores 16.62 on Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index
artificial_analysisStep 3.5 Flash: context length changed from 262144 to 256000
Context window262.1K tokens→256K tokensartificial_analysisOpenRouter lists Step 3.5 Flash at $0.1 in / $0.3 out per 1M tokens
openrouter
Change history18
Viewing AI Atlas as of 12 Mar 2026 — attributes exactly as the atlas knew them on that day; later corrections are not shown.
Back to today →Step 3.5 Flash was not yet in AI Atlas on 12 Mar 2026
Release daterelease_date1
Statusstatus1
Opennessopenness1
Context windowcontext_length3
Max outputmax_output_tokens1
Modalitiesmodalities1
Input modalitiesmodalities_input1
Output modalitiesmodalities_output1
Hugging Face repohf_repo1
Descriptiondescription1
Aa median output tokens per secondmetric.aa_median_output_tokens_per_second1
Openrouter idopenrouter_id1
Reasoningreasoning1
Structured outputstructured_output1
Supported parameterssupported_parameters1
Tool callingtool_calling1
Claims are temporal and append-only: a new observation closes the previous claim (valid_to) instead of overwriting it. Conflicting claims from different sources are kept side by side and flagged — never averaged. Methodology →
Provenance
Attributed facts
17
Source tiers
T217
Freshest observation
6 h ago
Conflicts
None
Source documents 4
Tier 1 = official/primary, 2 = quality secondary, 3 = community, 4 = unverified. Every snapshot is archived; see all sources and the methodology.
Data quality (56/100) measures how well AI Atlas knows this entity — completeness, primary-source ratio, freshness, conflicts — never how good the model is. Methodology →