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OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Terra vs StepFun: Step 3.7 Flash

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-09-23.

OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Terra StepFun: Step 3.7 Flash
Vendoropenaistepfun
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score71.129.1
Input Price$2.00/M$0.20/M
Output Price$12.00/M$1.15/M
Context Window1,050,000262,144
Max Output128,000230,400
Tool Calling
Structured Output
Reasoning Mode
Vision
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Benchmark Scores
ai_index69.432.1

Who wins by task?

TaskOpenAI: GPT-5.6 TerraStepFun: Step 3.7 Flash
SQL Generation 140 135
Code Review 145 132
Code Completion 118 129
Code Refactoring 147 132
Bug Fixing 149 136
Unit Test Generation 132 125
Code Documentation 135 129
Regex Writing 124 122
CI/CD Pipelines 128 121
Frontend Component Design 130 125
Data Analysis 134 128
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 135 129
ETL Scripting 137 127
JSON Extraction 121 131
Bulk Data Labeling 117 129
OCR / Document Parsing 134 129
Table Extraction from PDFs 134 129
Long-Document Summarization 147 134
Short-Form Summarization 116 125
Blog Post Writing 128 123

Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →

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