Home / Compare / Gemini 3.5 Flash vs Step 5 Preview Gemini 3.5 Flash vs Step 5 Preview Close to a tie overall. Step 5 Preview costs 58% less for the same work.
Model AClaude Fable 5 Claude Haiku 4.5 Claude Opus 4.7 Claude Opus 4.8 Claude Opus 5 Claude Opus 5.5 Claude Sonnet 4.6 Claude Sonnet 5 Claude Sonnet 5.5 DeepSeek R1 0528 DeepSeek V3 DeepSeek V3.1 DeepSeek V3.2 DeepSeek V4 Flash DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Gemini 2.5 Flash Gemini 2.5 Pro Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Gemini 3.1 Pro Gemini 3.5 Flash Gemini 3.7 Flash Gemma 3 12B IT Gemma 3 27B IT Gemma 3 4B IT Gemma 4 26B A4B IT Gemma 4 31B IT GLM 4.6 GLM 4.7 GLM 5.2 GLM 5.3 GLM 5.3 Flash GPT OSS 120B GPT OSS 20B Granite 4.2 8B Hy4 Preview Inkling Small Kimi K2.6 Kimi K3 Ling 3.1 Flash Llama 3.3 70B Instruct Turbo Llama 4 Scout 17B 16E Instruct Meta Llama 3.1 70B Instruct Turbo Meta Llama 3.1 8B Instruct Turbo MiMo V2.6 Flash MiMo V2.6 Pro MiniMax M3 Mistral Small 24B Instruct 2501 Mistral Small 3.2 24B Instruct 2506 Muse Glimmer 30B NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning Phi 4 Qwen2.5 72B Instruct Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507 Qwen3 30B A3B Qwen3 32B Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B Instruct Turbo Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct Qwen3.5 27B Qwen3.5 35B A3B Qwen3.5 397B A17B Qwen3.5 9B Qwen3.6 27B Qwen3.6 35B A3B Qwen3.7 Max Qwen3.8 27B Qwen3.8 Flash Qwen3.8 Max Seed 2.0 Pro Step 5 Preview Gemini 3.5 Flash
by Google · #22 of 67 overall
Coming soon · price at launch
Context 1M
Input / 1M $1.50
Output / 1M $9.00 Model BClaude Fable 5 Claude Haiku 4.5 Claude Opus 4.7 Claude Opus 4.8 Claude Opus 5 Claude Opus 5.5 Claude Sonnet 4.6 Claude Sonnet 5 Claude Sonnet 5.5 DeepSeek R1 0528 DeepSeek V3 DeepSeek V3.1 DeepSeek V3.2 DeepSeek V4 Flash DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Gemini 2.5 Flash Gemini 2.5 Pro Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Gemini 3.1 Pro Gemini 3.5 Flash Gemini 3.7 Flash Gemma 3 12B IT Gemma 3 27B IT Gemma 3 4B IT Gemma 4 26B A4B IT Gemma 4 31B IT GLM 4.6 GLM 4.7 GLM 5.2 GLM 5.3 GLM 5.3 Flash GPT OSS 120B GPT OSS 20B Granite 4.2 8B Hy4 Preview Inkling Small Kimi K2.6 Kimi K3 Ling 3.1 Flash Llama 3.3 70B Instruct Turbo Llama 4 Scout 17B 16E Instruct Meta Llama 3.1 70B Instruct Turbo Meta Llama 3.1 8B Instruct Turbo MiMo V2.6 Flash MiMo V2.6 Pro MiniMax M3 Mistral Small 24B Instruct 2501 Mistral Small 3.2 24B Instruct 2506 Muse Glimmer 30B NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning Phi 4 Qwen2.5 72B Instruct Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507 Qwen3 30B A3B Qwen3 32B Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B Instruct Turbo Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct Qwen3.5 27B Qwen3.5 35B A3B Qwen3.5 397B A17B Qwen3.5 9B Qwen3.6 27B Qwen3.6 35B A3B Qwen3.7 Max Qwen3.8 27B Qwen3.8 Flash Qwen3.8 Max Seed 2.0 Pro Step 5 Preview Step 5 Preview
by StepFun · #24 of 67 overall
Coming soon · price at launch
Context 1M
Input / 1M $1.00
Output / 1M $2.70 Better overall
About even
Grade 77.1 vs 75.2
Cheaper
Step 5 Preview
58% less, $1.43 vs $3.38 blended
Larger context
Step 5 Preview
1M vs 1M tokens
Head to head Public benchmarks. Longer is better; each value links to its source.
LMArena Text Elo-style rating · LMArena (CC BY 4.0) · Oct 28, 2026 SWE-Bench Pro % of tasks resolved · Scale AI SWE-Bench Pro · May 19, 2026 · reference Step 5 Preview Step 5 Preview: —
Gemini 3.5 Flash Gemini 3.5 Flash: —
Step 5 Preview Step 5 Preview: —
Gemini 3.5 Flash $660 /month
Step 5 Preview $308 /month
Step 5 Preview saves you $352 a month at this usage, $4,224 a year.
At a glance Attribute Gemini 3.5 Flash Step 5 Preview Made by Google StepFun Availability Coming soon Coming soon Overall grade Excellent · 77.1 Excellent · 75.2 Overall rank #22 of 67 #24 of 67 Input price $1.50 per 1M $1.00 per 1M Output price $9.00 per 1M $2.70 per 1M Context window 1,000,000 tokens 1,048,576 tokens Reasoning levels Yes No Reads images Yes Yes Model ID gemini-3.5-flash step-5-preview
Try both with one key Same endpoint, same key, both hosted in the USA. Change one word to switch models, in Claude Code, Cursor, Cline or your own code.
Get your API key # Ask either model the same thing
curl https://fullsendai.com/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $FULLSEND_API_KEY " \
-d '{"model": "gemini-3.5-flash", "messages": [...]}'
# …then swap one word
-d '{"model": "step-5-preview", "messages": [...]}' Questions Is Gemini 3.5 Flash or Step 5 Preview better? They grade within two points of each other (77.1 and 75.2), so pick on price and the benchmarks that match your work.
Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.5 Flash or Step 5 Preview? Step 5 Preview: $1.00 in and $2.70 out per million tokens, against $1.50 and $9.00 through FullsendAI.
Which has the larger context window? Step 5 Preview, with 1,048,576 tokens.
Can I use both with one API key? Yes, once they launch: both are coming soon, at the prices shown, and both will use the same FullsendAI key.
Scores: LMArena (CC BY 4.0), Scale AI SWE-Bench Pro, Terminal-Bench, and model makers’ published results where marked v. Prices are FullsendAI’s, per million tokens. Data as of Oct 28, 2026.
