StepFun's $99 plan packs $5,700 of Step 5 usage — 58x value called best in industry
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-09-20
A user's back-of-envelope math (based on StepFun docs: $1 = 7M credits) shows the $99 flash Max tier includes 40B credits — roughly $5,700 worth of Step 5 usage, a 58x return. Other tiers: $6.99 Mini $57 (8x), $9.99 Plus $229 (23x), $29 Pro $1,140 (39x), prompting claims it's the best-value AI plan available.
Commenter teortaxesTex is more measured: the model is decent but post-training seems miscalibrated — the team hillclimbed STEM benchmarks much like DeepSeek did in the R1 era, and the product needs more user data.
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