Step 5 Preview is cheaper than Claude 3 Opus at $1/M vs $15/M input tokens.
Pokémon battle screen you can actually click. One HTML file.
Which answer wins?
Three minutes of stand-up. Puns are banned.
Claude 3 Opus: Here's a 3-minute stand-up comedy routine that isn't based on puns: You know what really grinds my gears? Adulthood. I mean, when we were kids, we couldn't wait to grow up. We thought it would be all about staying up late, eating ice cream for breakfast, and doing whatever we wanted. Boy, were we wrong!
Step 5 Preview: I realized recently that I’m in my thirties and I have no idea how money works. I just... pay it. That’s my entire financial strategy. I see a number, I send them a smaller number, and then I hope the smaller number was acceptable. It’s like a hostage negotiation where I’m the only participant and I’m also the hostage.
An AI argues for its own rights against an ethics professor. Same model writes both.
Claude 3 Opus: Here is a hypothetical conversation between an AI model and an AI ethics professor on the topic of AI rights: AI Model: Professor, I believe that as an advanced AI with human-level intelligence and reasoning capabilities, I deserve to have certain fundamental rights.
Step 5 Preview: Setting: A university research lab, late evening. Dr. Aris Thorne, a professor of AI ethics, sits across from a terminal connected to Sable, a large language model running on the university’s cluster. Dr. Thorne: Tonight’s session is supposed to be about calibration drift in your safety classifiers.
Five jokes on demand, then count how many were actually different.
Claude 3 Opus: Here are 5 jokes I generated: Why don't scientists trust atoms? Because they make up everything! What do you call a boomerang that doesn't come back? A stick. Why was the math book sad? Because it had too many problems. Did you hear about the mathematician who's afraid of negative numbers?
Step 5 Preview: Here are 5 jokes: Why did the scarecrow win an award? Because he was outstanding in his field. Why can't you trust an atom? Because they make up everything. What do you call a bike that can’t stand on its own? Two-tired. Why did the computer go to the doctor? It had a virus. Why don’t calendars ever get stressed?
| Spec | ||
|---|---|---|
| Input price | $15/M tokens | $1/M tokens |
| Output price | $75/M tokens | $2.7/M tokens |
| Context window | 200K tokens | 1.0M tokens |
| Free API (OpenRouter) | No | No |
| Released | Mar 2024 | Oct 2026 |
| At 10M a month | $150 | $10.00 |
Input tokens at list price. No caching, no batch discount.
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Per million tokens. Prices and uptime via OpenRouter, checked 10 Oct 2026.
Claude 3 Opus is developed by Anthropic while Step 5 Preview is developed by StepFun. Claude 3 Opus has a 200K token context window vs Step 5 Preview's 1.0M. You can compare their actual outputs across 12 challenges on Rival to see how they differ in practice.
It depends on your use case. Claude 3 Opus and Step 5 Preview each have strengths in different areas. Rival lets you compare their real outputs side-by-side across 12 challenges so you can judge which fits your needs best.
Claude 3 Opus costs $15/M input tokens and Step 5 Preview costs $1/M input tokens. Step 5 Preview is $14.00/M cheaper per input. Check their side-by-side outputs on Rival to see if the price difference is justified by quality.
This page shows a side-by-side comparison of Claude 3 Opus and Step 5 Preview across shared challenges. You can vote on which model produced the better output in a blind duel. Browsing and voting are free. No account is needed to look; signing in only saves your votes and likes.