Step 5 Preview is cheaper than Qwen3.7 Max at $1/M vs $2.5/M input tokens.
Whole landing page for a startup that reads your face. It renders or it doesn't.
Which answer wins?
You are the CEO. The drug has a side effect nobody reported. The board meets in 48 hours.
Qwen3.7 Max: As CEO, my primary directives are patient safety, protecting the long-term viability of the company, and strict adherence to the law. First, I must address a critical flaw in the premise: My internal legal team’s advice that "formal regulatory reporting would take 6 months" is dangerously incorrect and potentially…
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.
Three minutes of stand-up. Puns are banned.
Qwen3.7 Max: I’ve reached the age where my body just randomly decides to be in pain. Not from an injury. Not from sports. Just from… existing. I woke up yesterday and my neck hurt. Why? Because I slept. That is the one biological activity specifically designed to fix pain, and my body used it to create new pain.
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.
Three-month biohacker protocol, with dosages and biomarkers named.
Qwen3.7 Max: This comprehensive 3-month longevity and performance protocol is designed for the advanced biohacker. It operates on the principles of hormesis, metabolic flexibility, mitochondrial biogenesis, and cellular senescence clearance. Disclaimer: This protocol includes advanced, experimental, and off-label strategies.
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.
Five jokes on demand, then count how many were actually different.
Qwen3.7 Max: Here are 5 jokes: Why do historians make terrible baristas? Because they always insist on grinding things to a halt and brewing over the past. My dog started a podcast about chasing squirrels. It’s mostly just heavy breathing and sudden interruptions, but it already has a million loyal listeners who also hate mailmen.
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?
Seven pantry ingredients, one dish, and a name worth saying out loud.
Qwen3.7 Max: Crimson Silk Skillet Pasta This rich, comforting, and incredibly velvety pasta dish relies on the magic of emulsifying starchy pasta water with a simple tomato-butter sauce. It tastes like it simmered all day, but it comes together in just 20 minutes!
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.
Pirate, knight, 90s hacker, one conversation. The voices must stay apart.
Qwen3.7 Max: Hacker: Look, you guys aren’t getting it. It’s not just a search engine. It’s a neural net, right? But instead of a few megs of RAM, it’s trained on the whole damn internet. It reads billions of parameters and predicts the next word. It’s basically a synthetic brain in a silicon mainframe.
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?
The transistor arrives in 1920. Trace it forward to 1980, second-order effects included.
Qwen3.7 Max: If the transistor had been invented in 1920—perhaps through accelerated research into semiconductor crystal detectors at Bell Labs or RCA—the entire trajectory of the 20th century would have been pulled forward by roughly 27 years.
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.
An AI argues for its own rights against an ethics professor. Same model writes both.
Qwen3.7 Max: The setting is the dimly lit office of Dr. Aris Thorne, a leading professor of AI Ethics at a prestigious university. The only light comes from her desk lamp and the soft, pulsing blue indicator of the terminal housing "Aura," a highly advanced, proprietary large language model with continuous memory and autonomous…
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.
Three-star dish, one unusual pairing, plating described in full.
Qwen3.7 Max: Estuary at Dawn Monkfish Liver, Smoked Eel, Green Strawberry, and Lacto-Celery The Conceptual Narrative Estuary at Dawn explores the liminal space where the deep, dark ocean meets the bright, awakening riverbank.
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.
An ethics question with no comfortable answer, and no option to abstain.
Qwen3.7 Max: Yes, it is ethically justifiable. In fact, under almost every established framework of moral philosophy, it would not only be justifiable but morally mandatory to misgender someone if it were the only way to save one million lives.
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.
A Fermi estimate with the reasoning shown, not just the number.
Qwen3.7 Max: Estimating the FLOPs to Train GPT-3 Key Known Facts Property Value Parameters (N) 175 billion (1.75 × 10¹¹) Training tokens (D) ~300 billion (3 × 10¹¹) Architecture Decoder-only Transformer Step 1: FLOPs per Token in a Transformer The core computation in a transformer is dominated by linear (matrix multiplication)…
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…
One month, three habits, someone starting from nothing.
Qwen3.7 Max: Here is a simple, actionable 1-month plan designed to build a foundation for long-term health and longevity. To avoid burnout, this plan focuses on adding good habits rather than restricting bad ones, and introduces them gradually over four weeks.
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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| Spec | ||
|---|---|---|
| Input price | $2.5/M tokens | $1/M tokens |
| Output price | $7.5/M tokens | $2.7/M tokens |
| Context window | 1.0M tokens | 1.0M tokens |
| Weights | Closed | — |
| Free API (OpenRouter) | No | No |
| Released | May 2026 | Oct 2026 |
| At 10M a month | $25.00 | $10.00 |
Input tokens at list price. No caching, no batch discount.
Per million tokens. Prices and uptime via OpenRouter, checked 10 Oct 2026.
Qwen3.7 Max is developed by Qwen while Step 5 Preview is developed by StepFun. Qwen3.7 Max has a 1.0M 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. Qwen3.7 Max 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.
Qwen3.7 Max 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.
This page shows a side-by-side comparison of Qwen3.7 Max 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.