Step 3.7 Flash API Provider Benchmarking & Analysis
This analysis is intended to support you in choosing the best API provider of Step 3.7 Flash for your use-case.
Fastest
DeepInfra
StepFunOutput speed
Total 2 providers
Lowest Latency
DeepInfraStepFunTime to first answer token
Total 2 providers
Lowest Price
StepFunDeepInfraBlended price (per 1M tokens)
Total 2 providers
Step 3.7 Flash is available through 2 API providers, each offering different performance characteristics and pricing. Below is a comparison of the key metrics across providers.
- For output speed, the top providers are DeepInfra (160.1 t/s) and StepFun (86.7 t/s).
- For latency, DeepInfra (13.16s) and StepFun (25.92s) offer the lowest time to first answer token.
- For pricing, StepFun (0.18) and DeepInfra (0.18) offer the lowest blended prices per 1M tokens.
- DeepInfra offers the best performance with both the highest speed and lowest latency. For cost optimization, StepFun provides the most competitive pricing.
Highlights
Update: Default performance benchmarking workload has updated to 10k input tokens to better reflect production use cases. You can still select different workloads above.
Pricing
Pricing: Cache Hit, Input, and Output
Pricing: Blended Price
Pricing: Cache Discount
Output Speed vs. Price
Speed
Measured by Output Speed (tokens per second)
Output Speed: Step 3.7 Flash
Latency vs. Output Speed
Latency
Measured by Time (seconds) to First Token
Time to First Answer Token
End-to-End Response Time
Seconds to output 500 tokens, calculated based on time to first token, 'thinking' time for reasoning models, and output speed
End-to-End Response Time
Key Comparison Metrics & API Features
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about Step 3.7 Flash providers
Step 3.7 Flash is currently available through 2 API providers that we benchmark and track.
1 of 2 providers support JSON mode for Step 3.7 Flash: StepFun.
All 2 providers of Step 3.7 Flash support function calling (tool use).
When choosing a provider for Step 3.7 Flash, consider: output speed (for throughput-intensive tasks), latency (for interactive applications requiring quick first responses), pricing (for cost-sensitive workloads), and API features like JSON mode or function calling.
Yes, provider performance can vary over time due to infrastructure changes, load balancing, and updates. We continuously benchmark all providers and display historical performance trends in the "Over Time" charts.
For information about Step 3.7 Flash's intelligence, capabilities, modalities, and how it compares to other models, see the model overview page. View model overview