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Step 3.5 Flash 2603
Step 3.5 Flash 2603 is optimized for high-frequency agentic and coding workflows with improved token efficiency and faster reasoning. NOTE: This model runs via StepFun, which may log and train on your prompts.
- Reasoning
- Input
- Text
- Output
- Text
- Discovery tier
- Open weights
Pricing
USD per 1M tokens- Input
- $0.10
- Output
- $0.30
Reference prices as published by the model provider. API example
Specifications
- Context window
- 262.1K
- Max output
- 65.5K
- Average output (7 days)
- 3K tokens
- Longer than 96% of 465 models
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Public evaluations
Benchmarks
Independent evaluation results, with how each score ranks among the models in the Noumen catalog.
Intelligence Index
17.0
Better than 45% of 326 scored models
Document reasoning
AA-LCRv1.1
63.0%Reasoning across long documents
Better than 38% of 309 scored models
Reasoning and knowledge
Humanity’s Last Exam
24.5%Expert-level questions across academic fields
Better than 55% of 323 scored models
GPQA Diamond
82.6%Graduate-level science questions
Better than 52% of 291 scored models
IFBench
66.5%Following precise output instructions
Better than 65% of 215 scored models
Legacy evaluations
Terminal-Bench Hard
32.6%Earlier terminal task suite
Better than 60% of 212 scored models
τ²-Bench Telecom
87.4%Tool use in a customer-support simulation
Better than 71% of 214 scored models
AA-LCR (unversioned)
63.0%Long-context reasoning, earlier grading
Better than 38% of 309 scored models
Scores from Artificial Analysis, updated Oct 26, 2026. Artificial Analysis
Live routing data
Performance and reliability
Recent averages across requests routed for this model. Your own speed depends on prompt length, reasoning effort and load.
- Prompt cache hits
- 0.0%
- Request success (24h)
- 100.0%
- Reliable
Cache hits are the share of input tokens recently served from a prompt cache across all requests. They are not a forecast of your own hit rate.
- Healthy (98% or more)
- Degraded (90–98%)
- Down (under 90%)
- No requests
Developers
Use it through the API
Noumen’s API is OpenAI-compatible: any Chat Completions client works with a base URL and a key.
curl https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $NOUMEN_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "stepfun-ai/step-3.5-flash-2603",
"messages": [{ "role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace." }]
}'import os
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(base_url="https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1", api_key=os.environ["NOUMEN_API_KEY"])
reply = client.chat.completions.create(
model="stepfun-ai/step-3.5-flash-2603",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace."}],
)
print(reply.choices[0].message.content)stepfun
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