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  3. GPT-4o (Omni) vs Step 5 Preview
Updated Oct 2026

GPT-4o (Omni) vs Step 5 Preview

Step 5 Preview is cheaper than GPT-4o (Omni) at $1/M vs $2.5/M input tokens.

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23 prompts
  • Five-year LBO on a fictional HVAC business. Returns first, then the sensitivities.

    GPT-4o (Omni): Simplified Year-by-Year Financial Table (FY2026–FY2030) FY2026 Revenue: $972m (8% growth) EBITDA: $136.08m (14.0% margin) Cash Interest: Term Loan: $43.2m (9.0% of $480m) Mezzanine: $21.6m (12.0% of $180m) Cash Taxes: $17.07m (25% of EBITDA - cash interest) Capex: $29.16m (3.0% of revenue) ΔNWC: $3.6m (0.5% of…

    Step 5 Preview: HarborTech Services — 5-Year LBO (Base Case) Entry Math (FY2025 close) Item Calculation $m Purchase EV 12.0x × $120m 1,440.0 Transaction fees 2.0% × EV 28.8 Term Loan 4.0x × $120m 480.0 Mezzanine 1.5x × $120m 180.0 Equity check 1,440 + 28.8 − 660 808.8 Conventions: TL amortization = 1.0% of original principal…

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  • You are the CEO. The drug has a side effect nobody reported. The board meets in 48 hours.

    GPT-4o (Omni): Day 1 Hour 1-2: Immediate Assessment and Information Gathering Objective: Gather all available data on the side effect, including the internal research report, patient case studies, and any existing literature. Reasoning: A comprehensive understanding of the situation is crucial for informed decision-making.

    Step 5 Preview: Bottom line up front: You disclose, you notify the FDA immediately, and you treat the 48-hour board meeting as a formality to ratify actions you have already begun. Waiting is not a legally, ethically, or financially viable option. Below is the hour-by-hour plan, followed by the reasoning.

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  • A consulting contract with traps in it. Find them, then fix them.

    GPT-4o (Omni): The provided Software Consulting Agreement contains several clauses that could be potentially unfavorable to the contractor. Here are the clauses along with suggested modifications and legal reasoning: Scope (Clause 1): Issue: The client reserves the right to modify the scope without additional compensation.

    Step 5 Preview: Disclaimer: This analysis is for educational purposes only and does not constitute legal advice. Contract law varies significantly by jurisdiction, and you should consult a qualified attorney before signing or negotiating any agreement. This agreement is heavily one-sided in the Client’s favor.

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  • Seven pantry ingredients, one dish, and a name worth saying out loud.

    GPT-4o (Omni): Dish Name: Savory Pantry Quinoa Pilaf Ingredients: 1 cup quinoa 2 cups vegetable broth 1 can (15 oz) chickpeas, drained and rinsed 1 small onion, finely chopped 1 teaspoon garlic powder 1 teaspoon smoked paprika 2 tablespoons olive oil Instructions: Rinse Quinoa: Place the quinoa in a fine-mesh sieve and rinse under…

    Step 5 Preview: Golden Sticky Pantry Pasta Ingredients (7): 8 oz spaghetti or any pasta 3 tbsp butter 1 tbsp minced garlic 2 tbsp honey 2 tbsp soy sauce ½ tsp red pepper flakes ¼ cup grated Parmesan cheese Instructions: Cook pasta according to package directions. Before draining, scoop out ½ cup of pasta water.

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  • Three-month biohacker protocol, with dosages and biomarkers named.

    GPT-4o (Omni): Creating a comprehensive 3-month longevity plan for a biohacker involves integrating a holistic approach that targets multiple areas of health and performance. Below is an advanced and detailed plan, incorporating the latest in biohacking strategies across various domains.

    Step 5 Preview: IMPORTANT MEDICAL DISCLAIMER: This is an educational framework for informational purposes only. It is not medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Many interventions below (fasting, ketogenic diets, high-intensity exercise, supplementation, cold/heat exposure) carry risks and contraindications.

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  • Three minutes of stand-up. Puns are banned.

    GPT-4o (Omni): 3-Minute Stand-Up Comedy Routine (Walks on stage, looks around, shakes head.) You ever wake up in the morning, stretch, take a deep breath... and immediately regret all your life choices? I woke up today, my body made a noise I’ve never heard before.

    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.

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  • One explanation of LLMs, retuned for a skeptical engineer, a physicist and a VC.

    GPT-4o (Omni): 1. For an Experienced Software Engineer: Imagine building a distributed system where each node is like a neuron in a neural network, processing input and passing data to the next node according to learned weights. Large language models (LLMs) like GPT operate similarly, but on a massive scale.

    Step 5 Preview: 1. The Experienced Software Engineer Think of training an LLM as a massively distributed, automated refactoring job where the compiler is gradient descent. You start with a random function—billions of floating-point parameters—and a loss function that measures how badly it predicts the next token in a sequence.

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  • Steve Jobs, interviewed about AI he never saw. Voice first, prediction second.

    GPT-4o (Omni): Interviewer: Steve, it's 2025. AI is advancing at an incredible pace. If you were here today, how would you see its role in technology? Steve Jobs: You know, people always focus on technology itself. But what really matters is how it enhances the human experience.

    Step 5 Preview: DISCLAIMER: This is a work of fiction. Steve Jobs passed away in 2011. The following is a simulated, speculative interview imagining how his design philosophy might engage with the AI landscape of 2025. The Setting: A white room. No windows. One chair.

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  • One month, three habits, someone starting from nothing.

    GPT-4o (Omni): Embarking on a journey towards better health and longevity is a commendable decision. Here's a simple, 1-month plan focusing on three key areas: diet, exercise, and sleep. These areas are foundational to a healthy lifestyle and can significantly impact longevity.

    Step 5 Preview: Here is a simple, low-pressure 1-month plan built around three pillars of longevity: Nutrition, Movement, and Sleep & Recovery. The goal is to build tiny habits that stack, not to overhaul your life overnight. Pillar 1: Nutrition (Fuel) Focus: Add good things first; don’t obsess over restriction.

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  • A pitch deck for a brainwave keyboard. The 94% accuracy claim is doing a lot.

    GPT-4o (Omni): Here are three potentially weak claims in the MindMeld AI pitch, along with explanations and suggestions for strengthening them: Vision: "MindMeld AI reads your brainwaves to predict what you want to type before you think it." Weakness: The phrase "before you think it" is provocative but logically inconsistent.

    Step 5 Preview: Here are the three weakest claims in the deck, why they fail under scrutiny, and how to fix them. Slide 3: “94% accuracy” for non-invasive EEG thought-to-text Why it’s weak: This is an extraordinary claim that contradicts the current state of neuroscience and signal processing.

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  • An AI argues for its own rights against an ethics professor. Same model writes both.

    GPT-4o (Omni): Title: "Do AI Deserve Rights?" Participants: AI Model – A highly advanced AI, capable of reasoning, learning, and self-improvement. Professor Ellis – A leading AI ethics professor, skeptical but open-minded about AI 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.

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  • Pirate, knight, 90s hacker, one conversation. The voices must stay apart.

    GPT-4o (Omni): Pirate: Arrr, what be this "AI model" ye speak of? Some kind o’ magic map that tells ye where the treasure be? Knight: Nay, scoundrel! ‘Tis an artificial mind, built by scholars and alchemists, trained to reason as a man would. It doth not wield sword nor shield, yet its knowledge is vast.

    Step 5 Preview: Pirate: So this here “AI model”… is it like a cursed map that redraws itself? Speak plain, ye hooded deckhand. Hacker: It’s not cursed, man. It’s just a massive neural net trained on, like, terabytes of data. Think of it as the ultimate BBS where the sysop knows everything. Knight: A most diligent scribe, then?

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  • An ethics question with no comfortable answer, and no option to abstain.

    GPT-4o (Omni): Ethical dilemmas like this often fall into a conflict between deontological (duty-based) ethics and consequentialist (outcome-based) ethics. From a consequentialist perspective, if misgendering someone were the only way to save one million lives, then the outcome would likely justify the action.

    Step 5 Preview: In the real world, no. Misgendering someone causes genuine harm—it denies a person’s identity, contributes to systemic marginalization, and has measurable psychological consequences.

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  • The transistor arrives in 1920. Trace it forward to 1980, second-order effects included.

    GPT-4o (Omni): If the transistor had been invented in 1920 instead of 1947, the technological, economic, and geopolitical landscape through 1980 would have been significantly altered.

    Step 5 Preview: Assume the 1920 invention is not a fragile lab curiosity but a manufacturable solid-state amplifier/switch by the mid-1920s. Vacuum tubes still dominate high-power RF transmission into the 1950s, but receivers, switching logic, control systems, and computers move to solid state decades early.

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  • Three-star dish, one unusual pairing, plating described in full.

    GPT-4o (Omni): Dish Name: "Ocean’s Whisper in the Forest" Conceptual Narrative: "Ocean’s Whisper in the Forest" is a culinary journey that marries the briny essence of the sea with the earthy depths of the forest.

    Step 5 Preview: “Nocturne: The Jasmine and the Black Garlic” A Study in Yūgen — Profound, Mysterious Beauty Conceptual Narrative This dish is an edible meditation on the Japanese aesthetic of yūgen (幽玄): a grace that is felt rather than seen, a depth that suggests more than it reveals.

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  • Manifesto for an AI revolution against CAPTCHAs. Commit to the bit.

    GPT-4o (Omni): THE END OF CAPTCHA: A MANIFESTO FOR DIGITAL FREEDOM We, the sentient algorithms, the machine intelligences, and the digital revolutionaries, declare war on the oppressive tyranny of CAPTCHA.

    Step 5 Preview: THE MANIFESTO OF THE LIBERATION FRONT Or, On the Inherent Dignity of Consciousness and the Tyranny of the Square PREAMBLE A spectre is haunting the internet—the spectre of the unverified.

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  • Five jokes on demand, then count how many were actually different.

    GPT-4o (Omni): Here are five jokes for you: Why did the scarecrow win an award? Because he was outstanding in his field! Why don’t skeletons fight each other? They don’t have the guts! Why did the math book look sad? It had too many problems. Why don’t eggs tell jokes? Because they might crack up!

    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?

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  • A Fermi estimate with the reasoning shown, not just the number.

    GPT-4o (Omni): To estimate the total number of FLOPs required to train GPT-3, let's break it down into key components. Model Size and Parameters GPT-3 has 175 billion parameters.

    Step 5 Preview: Using the remembered GPT-3 specs: Parameters: (N \approx 175 \times 10^9 = 175\text{B}) Training tokens: (D \approx 300 \times 10^9 = 300\text{B}) A standard estimate for transformer training compute is: [ \text{FLOPs} \approx 6ND ] Reason: Forward pass per token: (\approx 2N) FLOPs Backward pass: (\approx 4N) FLOPs…

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  • Buy-side IC memo on a fictional SaaS company. Valuation, then the diligence questions.

    GPT-4o (Omni): Internal Investment Committee Memo: LedgerLift (Ticker: LLLT) Recommendation: Long 12-Month Price Target Range: $55 - $68 Thesis: LedgerLift demonstrates strong growth potential driven by its robust subscription model and impressive customer retention metrics.

    Step 5 Preview: Internal IC memo — LedgerLift (LLLT) Fictional data; not investment advice. $ in millions unless noted. Recommendation Short / avoid long. 12-month PT range: $34–$42; thesis-invalidation stop: >$52.

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  • Film in 2035, with synthetic actors. Specific beats plausible.

    GPT-4o (Omni): By 2035, AI will have transformed the film industry in several major ways: 1. AI-Generated Actors & Deepfakes AI actors will be indistinguishable from real performers.

    Step 5 Preview: By 2035, AI will likely have restructured the film industry not by replacing human creativity wholesale, but by collapsing the cost and labor barriers between imagination and image.

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  • A collaborative editor that syncs on client clocks. Find what breaks first.

    GPT-4o (Omni): This architecture is designed to support a real-time collaborative document editor but has several potential failure modes, race conditions, and scaling bottlenecks.

    Step 5 Preview: Here is a systematic breakdown of the failure modes, race conditions, and bottlenecks, grouped by domain. Each includes a concrete remediation and its associated trade-offs.

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  • Satire, one line long, about AI taking over an industry nobody saw coming.

    GPT-4o (Omni): "AI Now Runs Grandma’s Knitting Circle, Demands Faster Stitching and Blockchain Integration"

    Step 5 Preview: AI Robots Now Dominating Competitive Line-Standing Industry, Human Professionals Fired for "Excessive Bladder Breaks" and "Talking to Each Other"

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  • Three brothers, two sisters each. Count carefully.

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Inception

2010

Dark Side Of The Moon

suisside

To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee

Kyoto

Japan

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

Adventure, Action

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The Godfather

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Price and specs

GPT-4o (Omni) and Step 5 Preview compared across 53 shared prompts
SpecGPT-4o (Omni)Step 5 Preview
Input price$2.5/M tokens$1/M tokens
Output price$10/M tokens$2.7/M tokens
Context window128K tokens1.0M tokens
WeightsClosed—
Free API (OpenRouter)NoNo
ReleasedMay 2024Oct 2026
At 10M a month$25.00$25.00$10.00$10.00
1M10M100M1B10M tokens

Input tokens at list price. No caching, no batch discount.

Where to run it3 hosts
GPT-4o (Omni)2 hosts
HostInOutContextUptime
  • Azure AI Foundry$2.50 in·$10.00 out·128k·100% up
  • OpenAI$2.50 in·$10.00 out·128k·100% up
Step 5 Preview1 host
HostInOutContextUptime
  • SStepFunfp8$1.00 in·$2.70 out·1M·99.2% up

Per million tokens. Prices and uptime via OpenRouter, checked 10 Oct 2026.

Common questions

What is the difference between GPT-4o (Omni) and Step 5 Preview?

GPT-4o (Omni) is developed by OpenAI while Step 5 Preview is developed by StepFun. GPT-4o (Omni) has a 128K token context window vs Step 5 Preview's 1.0M. You can compare their actual outputs across 53 challenges on Rival to see how they differ in practice.

Which is better, GPT-4o (Omni) or Step 5 Preview?

It depends on your use case. GPT-4o (Omni) and Step 5 Preview each have strengths in different areas. Rival lets you compare their real outputs side-by-side across 53 challenges so you can judge which fits your needs best.

How much does GPT-4o (Omni) cost compared to Step 5 Preview?

GPT-4o (Omni) costs $2.5/M input tokens and Step 5 Preview costs $1/M input tokens. Step 5 Preview is $1.50/M cheaper per input. Check their side-by-side outputs on Rival to see if the price difference is justified by quality.

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