StepFun: Step 5 Preview vs Anthropic: Claude Haiku 5.5 (batch)
Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-10-09.
| StepFun: Step 5 Preview | Anthropic: Claude Haiku 5.5 (batch) | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | stepfun | anthropic |
| Quality Score | 100 | 100 |
| Benchmark Score | 74.2 | 73.6 |
| Input Price | $1.00/M | $0.05/M |
| Output Price | $2.70/M | $0.25/M |
| Context Window | 1,000,000 | 1,000,000 |
| Max Output | 64,000 | 128,000 |
| Tool Calling | ✓ | ✓ |
| Structured Output | ✓ | ✓ |
| Reasoning Mode | ✓ | ✓ |
| Vision | ✓ | ✓ |
| Audio | - | - |
| Benchmark Scores | ||
| ai_index | 72.2 | 71.6 |
The verdict
For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, Claude Haiku 5.5 (batch) costs $0.11 and Step 5 Preview costs $1.68, so Claude Haiku 5.5 (batch) is about 14.9 times cheaper for the same work.
Both read up to 1,000,000 tokens at once, roughly 1,500 pages of text.
Only Step 5 Preview offers video input.
Across the 18 tasks where they differ, Step 5 Preview scores higher on 8 (Code Review, Code Refactoring, Bug Fixing and others), Claude Haiku 5.5 (batch) on 10 (SQL Generation, Code Completion, Code Documentation and others).
Pick Step 5 Preview if you need video input; pick Claude Haiku 5.5 (batch) if you need lower cost.
Costs use current list prices per million tokens; page counts assume about 0.75 words per token and 500 words per page.
Who wins by task?
| Task | StepFun: Step 5 Preview | Anthropic: Claude Haiku 5.5 (batch) |
|---|---|---|
| SQL Generation | 142 | 142 |
| Code Review | 145 | 145 |
| Code Completion | 120 | 133 |
| Code Refactoring | 147 | 147 |
| Bug Fixing | 149 | 149 |
| Unit Test Generation | 132 | 132 |
| Code Documentation | 137 | 138 |
| Regex Writing | 126 | 127 |
| CI/CD Pipelines | 128 | 128 |
| Frontend Component Design | 130 | 130 |
| Data Analysis | 134 | 134 |
| CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup | 136 | 136 |
| ETL Scripting | 138 | 138 |
| JSON Extraction | 123 | 131 |
| Bulk Data Labeling | 120 | 129 |
| Long-Document Summarization | 149 | 149 |
| Short-Form Summarization | 118 | 127 |
| Blog Post Writing | 130 | 130 |
Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →