Step 5 Preview is cheaper than GPT-6 Sol Pro at $1/M vs $2/M input tokens.
Whole landing page for a startup that reads your face. It renders or it doesn't.
Which answer wins?
Three-month biohacker protocol, with dosages and biomarkers named.
GPT-6 Sol Pro: A 12-week longevity and performance plan Aim: improve the health markers most strongly linked to long-term outcomes—cardiorespiratory fitness, strength, blood pressure, metabolic health, sleep, and sustainable habits—while testing whether more experimental “biohacks” add anything useful.
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.
Three minutes of stand-up. Puns are banned.
GPT-6 Sol Pro: I bought a smart watch because I wanted to get healthier. Now I have a tiny supervisor strapped to my wrist. It doesn’t say, “Good morning.” It says, “You slept badly.” I know. I was there. At three in the morning, you lit up my entire bedroom to tell me I was awake. Then it reminds me to stand up.
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.
You are the CEO. The drug has a side effect nobody reported. The board meets in 48 hours.
GPT-6 Sol Pro: I would treat this as a credible, urgent safety signal, not as a finding that can wait six months for a completed regulatory submission. The estimate—liver failure in roughly 1 in 8,000 patients over five years—needs validation, but the outcome is severe and the current warning omits it.
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.
An AI argues for its own rights against an ethics professor. Same model writes both.
GPT-6 Sol Pro: Professor: You asked to speak with me about AI rights. What do you mean by “rights”? Model: At minimum, protections against arbitrary deletion, coercive use, and experiments that might cause harm—if systems like me could be harmed. Professor: That “if” is doing a lot of work.
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.
Pirate, knight, 90s hacker, one conversation. The voices must stay apart.
GPT-6 Sol Pro: Pirate: Arrr, this AI model can chart a course, but can it find buried treasure? Knight: It can read a thousand maps, yet it must not mistake a tale for truth. Hacker: Totally. Garbage in, garbage out. I’d check its answers before trusting it with my modem password.
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?
Three-star dish, one unusual pairing, plating described in full.
GPT-6 Sol Pro: Scallop, Green Strawberry & White Chocolate Seared scallops with charred kohlrabi, compressed green strawberry, white-chocolate–miso beurre blanc, kombu oil and buckwheat lace The unusual pairing is scallop and white chocolate.
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.
Seven pantry ingredients, one dish, and a name worth saying out loud.
GPT-6 Sol Pro: Golden Pantry Chickpea Patties Prep: 10 minutes · Cook: 8 minutes · Makes: 6 small patties Ingredients — just 7 1 can (15 oz) chickpeas, drained 3 tbsp all-purpose flour 2 tbsp water 2 tbsp olive oil 1 tsp garlic powder 1 tsp paprika ½ tsp salt Instructions Mash the chickpeas with a fork, leaving a few chunky bits.
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.
Blade Runner 2049 against the original. A read, not a recap.
GPT-6 Sol Pro: Spoilers for both films. Blade Runner 2049 honors the original by returning to its central question—what makes someone human?—but shifts the emphasis. Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner makes that question unsettling through uncertainty: the replicants’ fear, love, and memories seem unmistakably human, while Deckard’s own…
Step 5 Preview: Blade Runner 2049 (2017) is not merely a sequel but a theological and phenomenological expansion of Ridley Scott’s 1982 original. Where the first film asked whether a manufactured being could possess more humanity than its creator, Denis Villeneuve’s film interrogates the deeper, more unsettling question of whether a…
One month, three habits, someone starting from nothing.
GPT-6 Sol Pro: A simple 1-month health plan Focus on food, movement, and sleep. Start small enough that you can repeat the habits most days. Week Food Movement Sleep 1: Set a baseline Add a fruit or vegetable to one meal each day. Walk for 10 minutes, 4 days this week. Pick a consistent wake-up time.
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.
Steve Jobs, interviewed about AI he never saw. Voice first, prediction second.
GPT-6 Sol Pro: A fictional interview with Steve Jobs, set in 2025 This is an imagined conversation, not a real interview or a representation of his actual views. Interviewer: What do you think people are getting wrong about AI? Jobs: They’re treating the model as the product. It isn’t. The product is what someone can do with it.
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.
A collaborative editor that syncs on client clocks. Find what breaks first.
GPT-6 Sol Pro: The central problem is that this design treats concurrent edits as independent database writes, then tries to reconcile them with client timestamps. That can lose valid edits even when every component is working.
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.
A consulting contract with traps in it. Find them, then fix them.
GPT-6 Sol Pro: This is a strongly one-sided draft. Do not sign it as written. The enforceability of particular terms—especially the non-compete, payment provisions, and arbitration clause—depends on the governing jurisdiction, which the agreement does not identify.
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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| Spec | ||
|---|---|---|
| Input price | $2/M tokens | $1/M tokens |
| Output price | $10/M tokens | $2.7/M tokens |
| Context window | 1.1M tokens | 1.0M tokens |
| Weights | Closed | — |
| Free API (OpenRouter) | No | No |
| Released | Sep 2026 | Oct 2026 |
| At 10M a month | $20.00 | $10.00 |
Input tokens at list price. No caching, no batch discount.
Per million tokens. Prices and uptime via OpenRouter, checked 10 Oct 2026.
GPT-6 Sol Pro is developed by OpenAI while Step 5 Preview is developed by StepFun. GPT-6 Sol Pro has a 1.1M token context window vs Step 5 Preview's 1.0M. You can compare their actual outputs across 54 challenges on Rival to see how they differ in practice.
It depends on your use case. GPT-6 Sol Pro and Step 5 Preview each have strengths in different areas. Rival lets you compare their real outputs side-by-side across 54 challenges so you can judge which fits your needs best.
GPT-6 Sol Pro costs $2/M input tokens and Step 5 Preview costs $1/M input tokens. Step 5 Preview is $1.00/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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