Model family timeline
Last updated May 29, 2026
Step model releases
A source-backed timeline for the Step model family, collecting release dates, labs, access details, context windows, and major lifecycle changes.
5 models
Step-3.7-Flash
AvailableStepFun's high-efficiency multimodal sparse-MoE successor to Step-3.5-Flash: a ~196B-total / ~11B-active vision-language model with native image and video understanding, a 256K context, and selectable reasoning tiers (high/medium/low). Tuned for coding agents and search workflows.
Step-3.5-Flash
AvailableStepFun's Apache-licensed sparse MoE model for fast agentic execution, coding, math, browsing, and tool-use workflows.
Step-2
AvailableSecond-generation StepFun foundation model line with larger-scale multimodal and reasoning ambitions.
Step-1V
AvailableStepFun's first major vision-language model, released after the Step-1 language model.
Step-1
AvailableStepFun's first public foundation model generation, introduced as a trillion-parameter Chinese model line.