API PRICES
step-5-preview
Provider prices, cheapest first
Mainstream models without comparable official prices
step-5-preview official price: not yet recorded. Relays have only older quotes; the lowest is site.whyapi.top, group "china_officia" 3.075 USD_CREDIT per million total tokens (credit price, not cash, observed 2026-10-03). 6 sites have comparable prices; 6 sites list this model.Relay blended price uses 75% input and 25% output.
Official prices are the vendor's cash prices. Inference providers also list cash prices and can be compared directly. Relays list prices in site credit; what you actually pay depends on each site's top-up rate, so they cannot be compared with official prices directly.
Unit: USD credits per 1M tokens. These are site-credit prices; actual cost depends on each site’s top-up rate.
Price range: lowest — · median — · highest — (0 quotes, USD credits per million total tokens)
Relays
Prices below are in site credit, not cash.
| # | Provider | Plan / conditions | Input ↑USD credits / 1M | Output USD credits / 1M | Cache readUSD credits / 1M | BlendedUSD credits / 1M | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flagged · not ranked · Older price | |||||||
| — | site.whyapi.topAsk or discussCollected: Carried previous price Not updated this time; showing the previous price View 1 plans | china_officia Name on site: step-5-preview Chinese models official, super stable [machine translation]Original: 国模官 超级稳定 Note: number precision issue. This price is not ranked or counted. Operator pending verification | 2.1 | 6 | 0.105 | 3.075 | Full prices and sources |
Special groups · 3 rows · not ranked
These plans are marked as test, internal, disabled, gated by top-up or membership, or have a near-zero ratio. They may not be purchasable or stable, so they are listed separately and left out of the ranking and statistics.
- near-zero-ratio group: 2 rows
- Free declaration, listed separately: 1 rows
- zero-ratio group: 1 rows
- api.wapq.cn · Perk [machine translation]Group on site: 福利 · step-5-preview · Input 0 / Output 0 USD credits / 1M
- api.taffcloud.xyz · Gongyi (public-welfare) group [machine translation]Group on site: 公益分组 · step-5-preview · Input 0.00001 / Output 0.00001 USD credits / 1M
- api.futureppo.top · nvidia · step-5-preview · Input 0.0010294 / Output 0.0029412 USD credits / 1M
How this ranking works
All per-token prices: 97,455 prices from 871 sites (about 765 companies). 89,631 are ranked, from 861 sites (about 755 companies); 7,824 more are listed separately and not ranked. Prices collected up to 2026-10-17.
This model has 48 recorded prices; 10 can be compared directly (7 ranked, 3 listed separately). Not comparable yet: price not parsed yet 24, tiered by rules (see Tiered prices) 7, ratio looks unset 5, billed per request or another unit 1
0 recent · 1 stale (older than 10 days, or not updated by this refresh) · 0 unverified timestamps. No recent prices to summarize in this group. 0 zero-valued pairs are separately unverified, without proof of free eligibility. Timing does not verify payment, upstream identity or quality.
Prices are converted to site credits using each site’s published ratio. What you actually pay depends on its top-up rate. Input, output and cache prices in each row come from the same plan. Several sites run by the same company take one place in the ranking: its cheapest plan, with the other sites listed under it. We judge “same company” by identical prices, status pages or homepage code; this is not a legal finding. To see every site’s prices, choose “All plans” or filter by provider.
“Self-declared unofficial channel” means the plan name itself says “reverse-engineered” or similar. We have not verified their source or quality. Minimum and median only count regular plans.
Sources not accepted this cycle and reasons
FAQ
Which API is cheapest for step-5-preview?
No valid quotes within 10 days. Older quotes are listed as reference prices.
How do I use step-5-preview in Claude Code or Codex?
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