Head-to-head token pricing, context window limits, and blended inference cost comparison between Step 5 Preview (StepFun) and DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (DeepSeek).
Step 5 Preview costs 5.4x more than DeepSeek V4.1 Flash on a 3:1 blended token workload. Step 5 Preview has a context window of 1000k tokens, while DeepSeek V4.1 Flash provides 1049k tokens.