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Step · Version step3

AvailableChecked Oct 23, 2026
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What to know about step3

AI-compiled from linked model documentation. This is a catalog reference, not an independent performance review. Catalog checked October 23, 2026.

Which step3 does this page describe?

step3 is a model record from StepFun in the Step family. Source

The recorded model identifier or checkpoint is step3. Use that exact identifier when checking documentation or a provider listing. Source

How can you access step3?

The catalog documents Open weights access for step3. Source 1 · Source 2

As of the catalog check, this version was listed as available. Source

Open weights means the model weights are distributed for use under their stated terms. It does not establish a hosted API, an open-source license, or a hardware requirement.

What can step3 receive and generate?

Documented inputs: text and image. Source

Documented outputs: text. Source

Input support and output generation are separate capabilities. Reading an image does not establish image generation; a text output listing does not establish speech output. File sizes, formats and media limits depend on the documented implementation.

What license is recorded for step3?

The recorded license label is apache-2.0. Source

Read the linked license and associated use terms for this exact version before redistribution, commercial deployment or fine-tuning. A label alone does not establish every permission, restriction or obligation, and it does not determine the terms of a separate hosted service.

What is documented about the step3 checkpoint?

This evidence refers to stepfun-ai/step3 at recorded revision e2d67fc936dc60f8f606f2429728f1dea503e10d, checked October 23, 2026. Repository metadata

Safetensors metadata records 320,969,912,832 stored parameters. This is a stored-weight count, not necessarily the number activated per token, a download size or a GPU-memory requirement. Repository metadata

Recorded architecture class: Step3VLForConditionalGeneration. Repository metadata

Repository task tag: image-text-to-text. A task tag identifies a distribution category; it does not measure performance on that task. Repository metadata

Listed library: transformers. Check that library's version and model support before loading the weights. Repository metadata

Repository access gate: false. This records the repository's gate setting when checked; licensing and use terms still apply. Repository metadata

What the configuration file says

The pinned config.json section text_config contains these values. Pinned configuration

torch_dtype
bfloat16
num_attention_heads
64
num_hidden_layers
61
hidden_size
7,168

Configuration values describe the checkpoint and its implementation. In particular, max_position_embeddings, sliding_window and rope_scaling do not independently establish an API context limit, tested usable length or hardware requirement. Runtime, quantization, cache, batch size and input length affect deployment behavior.

Read the retrieved model card for setup and qualifications. Model card

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Other Step models from StepFun.

These are separate records in the same publisher family. A shared family name does not establish equal capabilities or interchangeable licenses.

Step-3.5-Flash

API · Open weights · 256,000 context tokens

Step-3.7-Flash

API · Open weights · 256,000 context tokens

The documented record

Specifications, with their sources.

A missing value remains unknown. Input limits, output limits and the total context window are separate measurements.

Publisher
StepFunSource ↗
Family
StepSource ↗
Version
step3Source ↗
Availability
AvailableSource ↗
Access
Open weightsSource 1 ↗Source 2 ↗
Inputs
Text · ImageSource ↗
Outputs
TextSource ↗
Context window
Not documented
Maximum input
Not documented
Maximum output
Not documented
Knowledge cutoff
Not documented
Training-data cutoff
Not documented
Training completed
Not documented
Release date
Not documented
License
apache-2.0Source ↗
Input price / 1M tokens
Not documented
Output price / 1M tokens
Not documented

Read this with the numbers.

Official publisher weight listing; availability refers to this distribution, not a guaranteed hosted API. Base, SFT and research variants are identified by their exact published names. Official quantization/runtime variants are retained as aliases. Official hosted API status: retired. Open-weight distribution remains separately listed. Official API retirement date July 8, 2026; separately available open weights are unaffected by this status. Publisher repository evidence (2026-10-23): Publisher task label: image-text-to-text. Published architecture metadata: Step3VLForConditionalGeneration. Repository library label: transformers. Published safetensors metadata counts 320,969,912,832 stored parameters; this is not an active-parameter count for mixture-of-experts models. Published text_config configuration: dtype=bfloat16; 61 hidden layers. Checkpoint configuration is not a verified hosted serving limit; context and output limits remain separate documented fields.

Model identifiers and aliases 3
  • step-3
  • stepfun-ai/step3
  • stepfun-ai/step3-fp8

Follow the evidence

Official sources.

  1. step3 official model card ↗huggingface.co
  2. deprecations — official StepFun documentation ↗platform.stepfun.com
  3. step3: official publisher repository metadata ↗huggingface.co
  4. step3: publisher model card at revision e2d67fc936dc ↗huggingface.co
  5. step3: published checkpoint configuration at revision e2d67fc936dc ↗huggingface.co

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Independent editorial model library assembled from primary vendor documentation and official publisher model cards. This is a dated, auditable inventory of the sources reviewed, not a claim to every model worldwide. First-party language-model inventory for OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini/Gemma, xAI, Meta and Reflection. Includes vendor-listed legacy/retired identities with explicit statuses; official pretrained and instruction-tuned checkpoints remain distinct. Excludes embeddings, moderation/guard models, image/audio/video-only generation, community fine-tunes, speculative draft helpers, format/runtime/quantization duplicates, and PaliGemma dataset-specific benchmark fine-tunes. Availability means documented vendor API or downloadable official weights, not guaranteed account eligibility. Unknown specifications and dates remain null. Rounded K/M limits preserve vendor granularity; exact integers are used only where documented. No OpenRouter facts are used. Primary-source inventory of language-capable models from Alibaba/Qwen, DeepSeek, Moonshot, MiniMax, Z.ai, ByteDance Seed, Tencent, Baidu, Xiaomi, StepFun, 01.AI, Shanghai AI Laboratory, Baichuan and OpenBMB. Includes full reachable official public weight inventories plus documented hosted API models and explicit retirements. Embeddings, reward/classifier/router/tokenizer/draft-head components, standalone OCR/document converters and image/video/audio-only generators are excluded; multimodal language models retained. Official packaging variants are folded into aliases where a canonical listing was identifiable; remaining research/base/SFT variants retain exact identities. Not a guarantee every historical/private/regional model is available. Unknown specifications remain null; K/M API display quantities use decimal normalization where explicitly noted, rather than implying verified exact serving ceilings. Model-name dates and repository creation timestamps are never used as release/training dates. Open weights does not mean unrestricted or OSI-open-source licensing. Some model-card bodies were unreachable; their public inventory metadata is retained and disclosed. Official Mistral, Cohere, AI21, NVIDIA Nemotron, Microsoft Phi/MAI, Amazon Nova, IBM Granite, AllenAI OLMo/Molmo, TII Falcon, Nous Research, Arcee and Essential AI model inventory checked 2026-10-23. Includes base, instruction, reasoning, coding and text-producing multimodal models, including legacy API versions. Excludes embeddings/rerankers/reward and safety classifiers, image/audio/video-only generation, robotics-only models, duplicate quantization/runtime packages, adapters, intermediate checkpoint experiments, and third-party mirrors. Arcee coverage focuses on its named product families rather than exploratory merge repositories. Repository listing means listed, not independently verified API availability. K/M figures are nominal decimal normalizations when the source supplies shorthand; deployment-specific exact token limits may differ. Unverified values remain null. This is a source-backed inventory, not a complete claim-level independent editorial review. Supplemental official Liquid AI, Reka and Inception generative language catalog. Excludes media-only generators and decision/classification-only models. No assumed training dates.

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