Benchmark Almanac

Step 5 Preview

Step 5 Preview ranks first on 2 of the 58 benchmarks it has scores on.

StepFun Released 18 Sep 2026
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Benchmarks with a score
2
Ranked first, out of five or more models
4
In the top three
StepFun Sep 2026

Step 5 Preview

Closed weights

No Epoch Capabilities Index score yet
  • MMMU-Pro 76% #30 /72
  • SciCode 58.9% #3 /47
  • Harvey LAB (Legal Agent Benchmark) 9.17% #22 /80

Where it ranks

Its best score on each benchmark, and where that ranks among every model with a score there. We rank each model once, at its best setting.

Knowledge and language

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
Humanity's Last Exam 59.4% #13 of 147 Model card
LMArena (Elo) 1,448 #64 of 333 Official leaderboard
AA-LCR 1.1 88.3% #1 of 5 Model card

Math and science

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
GPQA Diamond 93.5% #9 of 284 Model card
CritPt 20.9% #28 of 160 Epoch AI
ProofBench 42% #38 of 83 Epoch AI
ProofBench v1.1 42% #34 of 51 Official leaderboard
MysteryMechanism 18.5% #26 of 29 Official leaderboard

Coding

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
SciCode 58.9% #3 of 47 Model card
SWE-Marathon 72.7% #1 of 11 Model card
WebDev Arena 1,570 #26 of 105 Epoch AI
ProgramBench 80.5% #5 of 20 Model card
Code Arena 1,571 #37 of 124 Official leaderboard
Vibe Code Bench 70.4% #44 of 115 Official leaderboard
Code Migration 39% #32 of 78 Official leaderboard
DeepSWE 67.7% #21 of 51 Model card
Image-to-WebDev Arena 1,550 #26 of 55 Official leaderboard
SWE Atlas 57.2% #6 of 11 Model card
Code Migration v1.1 47% #17 of 29 Official leaderboard
RSI-Exam 35.2% #13 of 18 Official leaderboard
MLS-Bench 40.5% #3 of 4 Model card
IOI v2 (Vals) 38.1% #38 of 45 Official leaderboard
FrontierCS 2 8.33% #16 of 16 Official leaderboard
RoadmapBench 54.3% #1 of 1 Model card
StepCodeBench 49% #1 of 1 Model card

Agents and tools

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
MCP Atlas 85.6% #4 of 40 Model card
BrowseComp 88.7% #11 of 77 Model card
τ³-bench Banking 42.5% #3 of 20 Model card
Terminal-Bench 2.1 85% #15 of 53 Model card
AutomationBench 44% #15 of 41 Model card
DRACO 83.3% #6 of 11 Model card
Agent Arena -0.03 #35 of 53 Official leaderboard
Toolathlon-Verified 74.1% #9 of 13 Model card
Hermes Bench 69.2% #13 of 17 Official leaderboard
Terminal-Bench 4.0 33.3% #18 of 23 Model card

Professional work

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
Harvey LAB (Legal Agent Benchmark) 9.17% #22 of 80 Official leaderboard
APEX-Agents 37.8% #4 of 12 Model card
Legal Research Bench 40.4% #32 of 88 Official leaderboard
Tax Agent Bench 27.3% #35 of 79 Official leaderboard
Harvey LAB v1.1 (HLAB-Vals-1.1) 12.9% #15 of 33 Official leaderboard
Vals Legal Index 70.2% #15 of 33 Official leaderboard
Excel Modeling Benchmark v1.1 69.5% #17 of 37 Official leaderboard
FrontierFinance 66.4% #1 of 2 Model card
Agents' Last Exam 29.5% #13 of 25 Model card
Vals Finance Agent v2 50.7% #42 of 80 Official leaderboard
Excel Modeling Benchmark 57.1% #41 of 76 Official leaderboard
JobBench 59% #7 of 12 Model card
Vals Index v2.2 54.8% #20 of 32 Official leaderboard
PresentBench 76.8% #2 of 3 Model card
Vals Finance Agent v2.1 58.9% #24 of 35 Official leaderboard
Vals Finance Index 55.4% #25 of 35 Official leaderboard
Public Benefits Bench 58.1% #37 of 50 Official leaderboard
OfficeQA Pro 60.3% #11 of 14 Model card
GDPval-AA v2.1 1,566 #7 of 8 Model card
AA-Briefcase v1.1 1,433 #6 of 6 Model card
SpreadsheetBench 2 29.4% #2 of 2 Model card
FinStepBench 63.6% #1 of 1 Model card

Vision, audio and robotics

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
Vision Arena 1,247 #48 of 136 Official leaderboard
MMMU-Pro 76% #30 of 72 Model card
GDP.pdf 14.8% #14 of 15 Model card

Safety and security

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
CyberGym 84.7% #7 of 33 Model card
SRE-Bench 0.38% #29 of 33 Official leaderboard

Other

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
LiveBench 58.6% #23 of 28 Official leaderboard
Vals Science Index 29.6% #19 of 23 Official leaderboard
Hermes Index 32.8 #15 of 17 Official leaderboard

Its launch post

The benchmarks the lab chose to headline, with the scores it gave.