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1. Jacques2Marais · 1789882575 · focus · HN ↗

   For anyone else looking for the pricing: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;platform.stepfun.ai&#x2F;docs&#x2F;en&#x2F;guides&#x2F;pricing&#x2F;details#pricing-for-multimodal-reasoning-models" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;platform.stepfun.ai&#x2F;docs&#x2F;en&#x2F;guides&#x2F;pricing&#x2F;details#p...

   1. sieve · 1789884046 · focus · HN ↗

      I regularly hit 200-300M cached reads every day on some of the models I use. It has exceeded 7-800M on a couple of occasions. At $0.04&#x2F;M, that is $8-12 per day only for cached reads.

      1. ignoramous · 1789888929 · focus · HN ↗

         &gt; At $0.04&#x2F;M

         Unless you meant step-3.7-flash, the input cache hits are $0.05 per mil for step-5-preview.

         &gt; $8-12 per day only for cached reads

         Pretty decent &quot;API&quot; rates for ~500M+ tokens on Step Fun 5, a Kimi K3 &#x2F; GLM 5.3 level model?

         Their &quot;Step Plan&quot; is ridiculous, by comparison: ~$60 usage on $6.99&#x2F;mo; ~$220 on $9.99&#x2F;mo. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;platform.stepfun.ai&#x2F;docs&#x2F;en&#x2F;step-plan&#x2F;overview" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;platform.stepfun.ai&#x2F;docs&#x2F;en&#x2F;step-plan&#x2F;overview

         1. sieve · 1789893395 · focus · HN ↗

            Yes, I meant the Flash version.

            I have used Kimi 2.5 and GLM 5.3 (&amp; 5.3 Flash). Do not need them for what I do outside of spec hardening (basically, a lot of chatting).

            I tend to know exactly what I want and most of the weaker models are enough to get me there. I have mainly been using MiMo, DeepSeek V4 Flash and MuseSpark Contributor over the last month or so.

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