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Step 3.5 Flash

StepFun · 29 January 2026

196B-total, 11B-active open MoE with 3-way multi-token prediction and 256K context; 74.4% SWE-bench Verified at 100 to 350 tokens/s.

Interleaved 3:1 sliding-window to full attention and MTP-3 cut agent loop cost, and a scalable RL setup spans math, code and tools. Paper figures are 85.4% IMO-AnswerBench, 86.4% LiveCodeBench-v6, 88.2% tau2-Bench and 51.0% Terminal-Bench 2.0. Apache-2.0.

Date
Thursday, 29 January 2026
Lab
StepFun
Kind
open-weights
Access
open weights

Figures

MeasureValueMeasured by
SWE-bench Verified74.4%company
Terminal-Bench 2.051.0%company
tau2-Bench88.2%company
Throughput100-300 tok/s typical, 350 peakcompany

OpenRouter lists it on 2026-01-29; HF weights from 2026-02-01 UTC; Wikipedia says 2026-02-03; arXiv 2026-02-11. Benchmarks are StepFun-run.

Sources

  1. arxiv.org/abs/2602.10604
  2. huggingface.co/stepfun-ai/Step-3.5-Flash
  3. static.stepfun.com/blog/step-3.5-flash/

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