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Qwen3 Coder Next FP8 vs Step 5 Preview

Side by side · benchmarks, pricing, and signals you can act on.

Winner summary

Not enough overlapping benchmarks to declare a winner yet · Qwen3 Coder Next FP8 · Step 5 Preview are still filling in scores.

Hype vs Reality
Qwen3 Coder Next FP8
no bench·#1 by attention
QUIET
Step 5 Preview
no bench·no signal
QUIET
Best value
Qwen3 Coder Next FP8
n/a
no price
Step 5 Preview
n/a
$1.85/M
Vendor risk
One or more vendors flagged
Alibaba logo
Alibaba (Qwen)
$293.0B·Tier 1
Low risk
stepfun logo
StepFun
$5.0B·Tier 1
Higher risk
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
Alibaba logoQwen3 Coder Next FP8————
stepfun logoStep 5 Preview$1.00$2.701.0M tokens (~524 books)$14.25