Head-to-Head Model Comparison

Step 3.7 Flash vs Command A Plus

Benchmarks, API Token Pricing, Context Window & Speed Comparison

Verificato dal team di ricerca di GetInfoUsUltima verifica: October 2026Politica editoriale

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StepFun

Step 3.7 Flash

Inferenza Ultra-Rapida

Step 3.7 Flash di StepFun è un modello di IA progettato per le interazioni in tempo reale a bassissima latenza e il routing ad alto volume, con finestra di contesto da 256K, velocità di 160 token/s, indice di intelligenza di 76/100 e tariff

Intelligence Index76 / 100

Input Token:

$0.00 / 1M

Output Token:

$0.00 / 1M

Context Window:

256K tokens

SWE-bench Verified:

N/A

Cohere

Command A Plus

Modello Base a Pesi Aperti

Command A Plus di Cohere è un modello di IA progettato per il self-hosting su infrastruttura privata, il fine-tuning e la piena sovranità dei dati, con finestra di contesto da 128K, velocità di 68 token/s, indice di intelligenza di 58/100 e

Intelligence Index58 / 100

Input Token:

$3.00 / 1M

Output Token:

$12.00 / 1M

Context Window:

128K tokens

SWE-bench Verified:

60.5%

Differenze Chiave a Colpo d’Occhio

Step 3.7 Flash is 1.0x cheaper for API usage (input + output tokens combined).
Step 3.7 Flash has a larger context window (256K vs 128K tokens).
Step 3.7 Flash is faster at 160 tok/s vs 68 tok/s.

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Feature	Step 3.7 Flash	Command A Plus
Intelligence Index Composite reasoning & knowledge score (0-100)	76	58
Provider	StepFun	Cohere
Input Price Cost per million input tokens	$0.00 / 1M	$3.00 / 1M
Output Price Cost per million output tokens	$0.00 / 1M	$12.00 / 1M
Blended Price Weighted 7:2:1 cache:input:output per 1M	$0.00 / 1M	$2.33 / 1M
Context Window Maximum input + output tokens	256K tokens~384 A4 pages of text	128K tokens~192 A4 pages of text
Max Output Tokens Per single request	8K	33K
Throughput Speed Tokens generated per second	160 tok/s	68 tok/s
SWE-bench Verified Real-world software engineering	N/A	60.5%
GPQA Diamond Graduate-level reasoning	N/A	74%
Cached Input Price Prompt caching discount per 1M tokens	$0.00 / 1M	$0.75 / 1M

Chi vince in ogni categoria?

At-a-glance decision framework

Coding

Evaluations ongoing

Cost

Step 3.7 Flash

1.0x cheaper monthly runtime

Speed

Step 3.7 Flash

+135% faster generation

Context

Step 3.7 Flash

256K tokens window

Punteggi Benchmark Verificati

Official evaluation metrics verified by independent third-party research labs.

Step 3.7 FlashCommand A Plus

SWE-bench Verified (Autonomous Coding)

Industry benchmark evaluating real-world GitHub issue resolution and multi-file debugging.

N/Avs60.5%

GPQA Diamond (Doctorate-Level Science & Math)

Challenging questions created by domain experts to test complex PhD-level reasoning.

N/Avs74%

MMLU-Pro (Multi-task Language Understanding)

Hardened reasoning and academic knowledge benchmark with reduced lucky-guess probability.

73%vs86.8%

LMSYS Chatbot Arena Elo

Crowdsourced human preference evaluation based on blind, head-to-head model battles.

1275ptsvs1410pts

Terminal-Bench (Agentic Coding & Terminal Use)

Autonomous multi-step tasks executed inside a real command-line terminal environment.

N/Avs50%

AIME (Advanced Math Competition)

American Invitational Mathematics Examination — multi-step Olympiad-level reasoning.

N/Avs82.5%

Long-Context Reasoning

Accuracy when reasoning over very large inputs that fill the model context window.

N/Avs88%

Generation Speed (Throughput)

Tokens emitted per second during active generation streaming.

160 tok/s vs68 tok/s

Latenza e Tempo di Risposta

Time to first token (TTFT) and estimated end-to-end response time for a typical 500-token response.

Time to First Token (TTFT)Lower is better

Step 3.7 Flash0.25s

Command A Plus0.56s

Est. End-to-End Response (500 tokens)TTFT + generation time

Step 3.7 Flash3.38s

Command A Plus7.91s

Simulatore Interattivo dei Costi Token

Adjust sliders to calculate projected monthly cloud API spending with prompt caching discounts.

Daily Input Tokens100K / day

10K500K1M

Daily Output Tokens30K / day

5K150K300K

Prompt Cache Hit Ratio50% cached

0% (Cold)50%90% (Warm)

Step 3.7 Flash Monthly API Bill

$0.00 / month

$0/1M in · $0/1M out

Command A Plus Monthly API Bill

$16.43 / month

$3/1M in · $12/1M out

Step 3.7 Flash saves approximately $16.43 / month (100%) under this workload.1.0x Savings

Step 3.7 Flash · Strengths & Key Advantages

Finestra di contesto da 256K con capacità massima di output fino a 8K token (MMLU-Pro 73% · Arena Elo 1275)
Throughput elevato di 160 token/secondo con latenza al primo token (TTFT) di soli 250 ms
Pesi aperti (Confidential / 70B MoE) pronti per il self-hosting locale o su cloud privato tramite vLLM, SGLang o Ollama

Considerations & Trade-offs

Richiede server GPU dedicati con sufficiente memoria VRAM per l’esecuzione locale a piena precisione
Nelle dimostrazioni scientifiche più estreme, i modelli di ragionamento pesante dedicati offrono maggiore profondità

Command A Plus · Strengths & Key Advantages

Finestra di contesto da 128K con capacità massima di output fino a 33K token (SWE-bench Verified 60.5% · GPQA Diamond 74%)
Throughput elevato di 68 token/secondo con latenza al primo token (TTFT) di soli 560 ms
Pesi aperti (Confidential (~180B+ MoE)) pronti per il self-hosting locale o su cloud privato tramite vLLM, SGLang o Ollama

Considerations & Trade-offs

Richiede server GPU dedicati con sufficiente memoria VRAM per l’esecuzione locale a piena precisione
Per volumi di traffico elevati in produzione si consiglia di attivare il prompt caching e la Batch API

Token Use & Task Economics

Estimated cost and token consumption to complete one representative agentic task.

Metric	Step 3.7 Flash	Command A Plus
Cost per Task Estimated USD to finish one task	$0.00	$0.85
Output Tokens / Task Tokens generated per task	12K	45K
Reasoning Tokens / Task Thinking tokens burned per task	2K	22K

Specifiche Tecniche

Architecture, release timeline, capabilities, and modalities.

Feature	Step 3.7 Flash	Command A Plus
Official API Model ID (SDK)	step-3-7-flash	command-a-plus
API Protocol	OpenAI-Compatible REST / vLLM / SGLang / HuggingFace TGI	OpenAI-Compatible REST / vLLM / SGLang / HuggingFace TGI
Release Date	2026-05	2026-05
Knowledge Cutoff	March 2026	March 2026
Architecture	High-Velocity Open Reasoning MoE	Flagship Multimodal Agentic MoE
Parameters	Confidential / 70B MoE	Confidential (~180B+ MoE)
Enterprise Rate Limits (RPM / TPM)	Unlimited (Hardware-bound on self-hosted GPU) / 10,000 RPM Cloud · Unlimited local throughput / 10M+ TPM Managed Cloud	Unlimited (Hardware-bound on self-hosted GPU) / 10,000 RPM Cloud · Unlimited local throughput / 10M+ TPM Managed Cloud
Long-Context Tier (>128K/200K)	Free across full context window (only KV-cache VRAM scales)	Flat rate ($3/1M in) across full 128K window
Prompt Cache Policy & TTL	Automatic prefix KV-caching in vLLM / SGLang (0 cost)	Cached input at $0.75/1M tokens
Computer Use / GUI Agent	API / CLI Tool-Use & DOM Agent ready (no raw pixel desktop click loop)	API / CLI Tool-Use & DOM Agent ready (no raw pixel desktop click loop)
MCP & Parallel Tool Calling	Native MCP Client/Server ready · Parallel function calling · 100% Strict JSON Schema	Native MCP Client/Server ready · Parallel function calling · 100% Strict JSON Schema
Web Search Grounding & Sandbox	Supported via external Tavily/Exa Search & E2B/Docker Sandbox tools	Supported via external Tavily/Exa Search & E2B/Docker Sandbox tools
Official Fine-Tuning Support	Full Weights SFT, LoRA, QLoRA, DPO & GRPO RL (Unsloth / Axolotl / Llama-Factory)	Full Weights SFT, LoRA, QLoRA, DPO & GRPO RL (Unsloth / Axolotl / Llama-Factory)
Multimodal Token Billing	Text BPE (~4 chars/token)	Text BPE (~4 chars/token) · Vision (~258–765 tokens per image tile)
Quantization & Min GPU VRAM	BF16 / FP16, FP8 Dynamic, INT4 AWQ / GPTQ, GGUF (Q4_K_M / Q8_0) · 43 GB VRAM (4-bit Quantized) · 151 GB VRAM (Native BF16)	BF16 / FP16, FP8 Dynamic, INT4 AWQ / GPTQ, GGUF (Q4_K_M / Q8_0) · 112 GB VRAM (4-bit Quantized) · 387 GB VRAM (Native BF16)
Safety & Frontier Classification	Open-Weights System Card + Customizable Guardrail Layer (Llama Guard / ShieldGemma)	Open-Weights System Card + Customizable Guardrail Layer (Llama Guard / ShieldGemma)
Enterprise Compliance (ZDR/HIPAA/SOC2)	100% Air-Gapped On-Premises / Private VPC · Full HIPAA, GDPR & SOC2 Control	100% Air-Gapped On-Premises / Private VPC · Full HIPAA, GDPR & SOC2 Control
Input Modalities	text	text, vision
Output Modalities	text	text

Step 3.7 Flash vs Command A Plus: Risposte Rapide (FAQ)

Which is more intelligent, Step 3.7 Flash or Command A Plus?

Step 3.7 Flash is more intelligent. It scores 76 compared with 58 on the composite Intelligence Index.

Which model is faster?

Step 3.7 Flash is faster, generating 160 tokens per second compared with 68 tokens per second.

Which model is cheaper to run?

Step 3.7 Flash is cheaper at $0.00 per 1M tokens blended, compared with $2.33 (7:2:1 cache:input:output ratio).

Which model has lower latency?

Step 3.7 Flash has lower latency, with a time to first token of 0.25s compared with 0.56s.

Which model has a larger context window?

Step 3.7 Flash has a larger context window, supporting 256K tokens compared with 128K tokens.

Verdetto

Sia Step 3.7 Flash (Ideale per le interazioni in tempo reale a bassissima latenza e il routing ad alto volume, sistemi RAG aziendali e integrazioni API scalabili.) sia Command A Plus (Ideale per il self-hosting su infrastruttura privata, il fine-tuning e la piena sovranità dei dati, sistemi RAG aziendali e integrazioni API scalabili.) eccellono in produzione: Step 3.7 Flash guida nei benchmark di ragionamento e programmazione, Step 3.7 Flash garantisce una generazione più rapida e Step 3.7 Flash offre il miglior rapporto qualità-prezzo per carichi API elevati.

Domande Frequenti (FAQ)

Quale modello è migliore per coding e ragionamento, Step 3.7 Flash o Command A Plus?+

Nell’indice di intelligenza composito e nei benchmark di programmazione prevale Step 3.7 Flash. Consulta i punteggi SWE-bench e GPQA qui sopra per tutti i dettagli.

Qual è la differenza di prezzo API tra Step 3.7 Flash e Command A Plus?+

Step 3.7 Flash costa $0.00 / $0.00 per milione di token di input/output, mentre Command A Plus costa $3.00 / $12.00. Nel costo combinato, Step 3.7 Flash risulta più economico.

Quale modello ha la finestra di contesto più ampia e la velocità maggiore?+

Step 3.7 Flash supporta 256K token di contesto contro 128K token di Command A Plus, mentre Step 3.7 Flash offre una velocità di generazione superiore.

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Step 3.7 Flash vs Command A Plus

Cambia e Confronta Qualsiasi Modello

Step 3.7 Flash

Command A Plus

Chi vince in ogni categoria?

Punteggi Benchmark Verificati

Latenza e Tempo di Risposta

Simulatore Interattivo dei Costi Token

Step 3.7 Flash · Strengths & Key Advantages

Considerations & Trade-offs

Command A Plus · Strengths & Key Advantages

Considerations & Trade-offs

Token Use & Task Economics

Specifiche Tecniche

Step 3.7 Flash vs Command A Plus: Risposte Rapide (FAQ)

Verdetto

Domande Frequenti (FAQ)

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