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GPT-5.1 vs Step-3.5-Flash
Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
GPT-5.1 leads with 1.9% higher average benchmark score. GPT-5.1 supports multimodal inputs. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
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OpenAI
GPT-5.1, released by OpenAI in November 2025, is a large language model from the GPT-5 family that delivers incremental improvements in reasoning, instruction following, and multimodal understanding over GPT-5. It features a 400K token context window and targets general-purpose development, long-context analysis, and agentic workflows.
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StepFun
Step-3.5-Flash, released by StepFun on February 2, 2026, is a Mixture-of-Experts large language model with 197 billion total parameters and approximately 11 billion active parameters per inference. It features a 256K token context window using a 3:1 sliding-window-to-full-attention ratio, processing 100–350 tokens per second. Step-3.5-Flash targets agentic tasks, coding workflows, and open-source deployments requiring frontier reasoning capabilities with efficient inference, under an Apache 2.0 license.
3 months newer
GPT-5.1
OpenAI
2025-11
Step-3.5-Flash
StepFun
2026-02-02
Average performance across 1 common benchmarks
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GPT-5.1
Average Score:76.3%(+1.9%)
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Step-3.5-Flash
Average Score:74.4%
Performance comparison across key benchmark categories
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GPT-5.1
Coding76.3%(+1.9%)
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Step-3.5-Flash
Coding74.4%
Provider Availability & Performance
Available providers and their performance metrics
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GPT-5.1
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Step-3.5-Flash
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GPT-5.1
Avg Score:76.3%(+1.9%)
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Step-3.5-Flash
Avg Score:74.4%
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