Benchmark Almanac

Step 5 Preview

Step 5 Preview ranks first on 2 of the 71 benchmarks with five or more models scored.

StepFun Released September 18th, 2026 Compare with others
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Ranked first, out of five or more models
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Step 5 Preview

Closed weights

160.1 #30 of 404
Self-Reported Index, from the lab's own numbers. No Epoch Capabilities Index score yet.
  • MMMU-Pro 76% #36 /90
  • SciCode 58.9% #3 /49
  • APEX-Agents 37.8% #4 /12

Where it ranks

Its best score on each benchmark, and where that ranks among every model with a score there. We rank each model once, at its best setting.

Knowledge and language

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
Humanity's Last Exam 59.4% #15 of 154 Lab model card
AA-LCR 1.1 88.3% #1 of 6 Lab model card
LMArena (Elo) 1,448 #65 of 335 Official leaderboard
Extended NYT Connections 76.6% #50 of 103 Official leaderboard
StudyArena Text 1,131 #84 of 85 Official leaderboard

Math and science

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
GPQA Diamond 93.5% #11 of 302 Lab model card
CritPt 20.9% #4 of 13 Lab model card
BioMysteryBench 67.4% #20 of 30 Official leaderboard
ProofBench v1.1 42% #35 of 52 Official leaderboard
MysteryMechanism 18.5% #28 of 31 Official leaderboard

Coding

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
SciCode 58.9% #3 of 49 Lab model card
SWE-Marathon 72.7% #1 of 11 Lab model card
WebDev Arena 1,570 #26 of 105 arena.ai, via Epoch AI
Code Arena 1,573 #41 of 128 Official leaderboard
Vibe Code Bench 70.4% #49 of 120 Official leaderboard
Code Migration 39% #32 of 78 Official leaderboard
Doc2Harness 40.8% #8 of 19 Official leaderboard
DeepSWE 67.7% #24 of 56 Lab model card
Image-to-WebDev Arena 1,551 #26 of 55 Official leaderboard
SWE Atlas 57.2% #8 of 14 Lab model card
Tencent WorkBuddy Bench 75.6% #8 of 14 Official leaderboard
Code Migration v1.1 47% #18 of 30 Official leaderboard
ProgramBench tests passed 80.5% #6 of 10 Lab model card
StepCodeBench 49% #3 of 5 Official leaderboard
RSI-Exam 35.2% #13 of 18 Official leaderboard
MLS-Bench 40.5% #4 of 5 Lab model card
IOI v2 (Vals) 38.1% #38 of 45 Official leaderboard
FrontierCS 2 10.4% #17 of 19 Official leaderboard
RSI Arena 934 #9 of 10 Official leaderboard
RoadmapBench 54.3% #1 of 1 Lab model card

Agents and tools

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
MCP Atlas 85.6% #5 of 46 Lab model card
τ³-bench Banking 42.5% #3 of 22 Lab model card
BrowseComp 88.7% #13 of 81 Lab model card
Terminal-Bench 2.1 85% #17 of 56 Lab model card
AutomationBench 44% #20 of 47 Lab model card
Toolathlon-Verified 74.1% #12 of 21 Lab model card
DRACO 83.3% #7 of 12 Lab model card
Agent Arena -3.74% #39 of 56 Official leaderboard
Hermes Bench 69.2% #13 of 17 Official leaderboard
Terminal-Bench 4.0 33.3% #22 of 28 Lab model card

Professional work

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
Harvey LAB (Legal Agent Benchmark) 9.17% #22 of 80 Official leaderboard
APEX-Agents 37.8% #4 of 12 Lab model card
FinStepBench DeepResearch 55.8% #2 of 6 Official leaderboard
Legal Research Bench 40.4% #37 of 93 Official leaderboard
Harvey LAB v1.1 (HLAB-Vals-1.1) 12.9% #17 of 38 Official leaderboard
Tax Agent Bench 27.3% #40 of 84 Official leaderboard
Excel Modeling Benchmark v1.1 69.5% #20 of 42 Official leaderboard
Vals Legal Index 70.2% #19 of 38 Official leaderboard
FrontierFinance 66.4% #1 of 2 Lab model card
Vals Finance Agent v2 50.7% #42 of 80 Official leaderboard
Agents' Last Exam 29.5% #14 of 26 Lab model card
Excel Modeling Benchmark 57.1% #41 of 76 Official leaderboard
Vals Index v2.1 49.4% #32 of 49 Official leaderboard
JobBench 59% #10 of 15 Lab model card
FinStepBench CorporateValuation 60.6% #4 of 6 Official leaderboard
FinStepBench LiveSearch 74.5% #4 of 6 Official leaderboard
PresentBench 76.8% #2 of 3 Lab model card
Vals Index v2.2 54.8% #25 of 37 Official leaderboard
Vals Finance Agent v2.1 58.9% #29 of 40 Official leaderboard
Public Benefits Bench 58.1% #37 of 50 Official leaderboard
Vals Finance Index 55.4% #30 of 40 Official leaderboard
OfficeQA Pro 60.3% #12 of 16 Lab model card
Investor's Last Exam 55.1 #8 of 10 Official leaderboard
GDPval-AA v2.1 1,566 #9 of 10 Lab model card
AA-Briefcase v1.1 1,433 #8 of 8 Lab model card
SpreadsheetBench 2 29.4% #3 of 3 Lab model card
FinStepBench 63.6% #1 of 1 Lab model card

Vision, audio and robotics

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
Vision Arena 1,245 #50 of 136 Official leaderboard
MMMU-Pro 76% #36 of 90 Lab model card
GDP.pdf 14.8% #16 of 17 Lab model card

Safety and security

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
CyberGym 84.7% #7 of 34 Lab model card
SRE-Bench 0.38% #31 of 35 Official leaderboard

Other

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
SuperCLUE 41.2 #11 of 16 Official leaderboard
LiveBench 54.9% #25 of 31 Official leaderboard
Vals Science Index 29.6% #21 of 25 Official leaderboard
Hermes Index 32.8 #15 of 17 Official leaderboard

Its lab's numbers put it at 160.1, number 30 of 404

The Self-Reported Index fits one score to the 22 capability results StepFun reported for this model, on the scale of the Epoch Capabilities Index. Labs choose which benchmarks to show and how to run them, so read it as the lab's claim, not an independent measurement. The 90% interval runs from 157.5 to 162.7. How we compute it.

Its lab's number next to a leaderboard

Where the benchmark's own leaderboard, or Epoch AI's run, also has this model. Gaps mostly come from different harnesses, effort levels and task subsets. Every pair.

Benchmark Lab says Board says Gap
StepCodeBench 49% StepCodeBench (avg@4, internal) 49% Leaderboard, avg@4; high Same

Its launch post

The benchmarks the lab chose to headline, with the scores it gave.