Ripple 65B Preview vs Step 5 Preview
Ripple 65B Preview costs 4.5x less per output token than Step 5 Preview ($0.60 vs $2.70 per million). Updated November 14, 2026; no benchmark has tested both models yet.
- Coding
- No data
- Overall
- No data
- Output $/M
- $0.60
- Coding
- 57.4
- Overall
- 55.1
- Output $/M
- $2.70
Ripple 65B Preview or Step 5 Preview: which to pick
Only Step 5 Preview has a coding score, 57.4 on the Vibe Coding Index; Ripple 65B Preview has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding.
Pick Ripple 65B Preview for output tokens 4.5x cheaper ($0.60 vs $2.70 per million) and a larger context window (1.05M against 1M tokens).
No benchmark has tested both yet. Ripple 65B Preview has none yet; Step 5 Preview on LiveBench coding, LMArena WebDev and Terminal-Bench 4 (Vals AI). Compare them on price and context instead.
Which one for your work
Each card is decided by one number both models carry. Where only one has it, the card says so and makes no call.
Coding
Vibe Coding Index, six public coding benchmarks
No call
Only Step 5 Preview has a coding score, so no call is made.
One side not measured
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
No call
Only Step 5 Preview has a AA Intelligence Index result, 28.5.
Directional only
General
Vals Index
No call
Only Step 5 Preview has a Vals Index result, 54.8%.
Directional only
Long documents
Listed context window
Ripple 65B Preview
Ripple 65B Preview takes 1.05M tokens against 1M.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
Ripple 65B Preview
Ripple 65B Preview $0.0005, Step 5 Preview $0.0024 per turn.
List prices
At a glance
- Coding index
- Ripple 65B Preview not benchmarked, Step 5 Preview 57.4 from 4 benchmarks.
- Widest category
- None yet: no category has been tested on both models.
- Widest single gap
- None yet: no benchmark has tested both models.
- Output price
- Ripple 65B Preview $0.60 against Step 5 Preview $2.70 per million output tokens, 4.5x apart.
- Context window
- Ripple 65B Preview takes 1.05M tokens, Step 5 Preview 1M.
Benchmark by benchmark
Every board either model has a result on, a category to a fold; bars are each result on a 0 to 100 scale. Only one model is measured on each, so no row names a leader.
CodingDirectional onlySix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index16 boards measured
| Benchmark | Ripple 65B Preview | Step 5 Preview | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LiveBench coding | Not measured | 67.6% | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| LMArena WebDev | Not measured | 1573 | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| Terminal-Bench 4 (Vals AI) | Not measured | 31.8% | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 70.4% | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| Code migration (Vals AI) | Not measured | 39.0% | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| IOI (Vals AI) | Not measured | 38.1% | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| SWE-bench Multimodal (Vals AI) | Not measured | 40.8% | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| SciCode | Not measured | 58.9% | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 33.3% | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| FrontierCode 2.0 | Not measured | 12.0% | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| LMArena Text: coding | Not measured | 1482 | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | Not measured | 1471 | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| LMArena WebDev: React | Not measured | 1589 | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| LMArena WebDev: HTML | Not measured | 1546 | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| LMArena WebDev: from an image | Not measured | 1551 | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| GameBench 2 | Not measured | 52.6 | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 36 boards here | |||
IntelligenceDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index1 board measured
| Benchmark | Ripple 65B Preview | Step 5 Preview | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | Not measured | 28.5 | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 1 board here | |||
Agentic workDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index12 boards measured
| Benchmark | Ripple 65B Preview | Step 5 Preview | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LiveBench research | Not measured | 75.5% | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| LiveBench browser | Not measured | 24.8% | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| LiveBench long agentic | Not measured | 19.4% | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| SREBench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 0.4% | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| Finance Agent (Vals AI) | Not measured | 50.7% | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 27.3% | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| Legal Research Bench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 40.4% | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| Harvey's Legal Agent Benchmark (Vals AI) | Not measured | 12.9% | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI) | Not measured | 57.1% | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| BioMysteryBench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 67.4% | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| Terminal-Bench-Science (Vals AI) | Not measured | 2.9% | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| Vals Science Index | Not measured | 29.6% | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 32 boards here | |||
ReasoningDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10 boards measured
| Benchmark | Ripple 65B Preview | Step 5 Preview | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LiveBench reasoning | Not measured | 83.8% | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| MysteryMechanism (Vals AI) | Not measured | 18.5% | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 46.5% | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| HLE-Diamond (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 24.3% | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| CritPt v2, hard subset (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 32.5% | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | Not measured | 1463 | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| LMArena Text: expert | Not measured | 1478 | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | Not measured | 1463 | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| LMArena Vision: diagrams | Not measured | 1295 | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| LMArena Vision: homework | Not measured | 1274 | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 16 boards here | |||
MathDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index3 boards measured
| Benchmark | Ripple 65B Preview | Step 5 Preview | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| ProofBench | Not measured | 42.0% | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| LMArena Text: math | Not measured | 1462 | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | Not measured | 1465 | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 11 boards here | |||
KnowledgeDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index5 boards measured
| Benchmark | Ripple 65B Preview | Step 5 Preview | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA-Omniscience | Not measured | 16.4 | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| LMArena Text: science | Not measured | 1462 | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | Not measured | 1441 | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | Not measured | 1441 | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | Not measured | 1444 | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 16 boards here | |||
Web designDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index1 board measured
| Benchmark | Ripple 65B Preview | Step 5 Preview | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LiveBench design | Not measured | 70.8% | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 8 boards here | |||
GeneralDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index27 boards measured
| Benchmark | Ripple 65B Preview | Step 5 Preview | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vals Index | Not measured | 54.8% | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| LiveBench data analysis | Not measured | 63.5% | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| Public Benefits Bench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 58.1% | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | Not measured | 88.3% | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| GDPval-AA | Not measured | 1591 | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| LMArena Text | Not measured | 1443 | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | Not measured | 1445 | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | Not measured | 1415 | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| LMArena Vision | Not measured | 1263 | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| LMArena Text: English | Not measured | 1455 | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| LMArena Text: non-English | Not measured | 1429 | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | Not measured | 1495 | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| LMArena Text: German | Not measured | 1454 | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| LMArena Text: Japanese | Not measured | 1397 | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| LMArena Text: Korean | Not measured | 1404 | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| LMArena Text: French | Not measured | 1446 | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | Not measured | 1442 | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| LMArena Text: Russian | Not measured | 1433 | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| LMArena Text: Polish | Not measured | 1405 | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | Not measured | 1440 | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | Not measured | 1453 | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | Not measured | 1429 | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | Not measured | 1413 | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| LMArena Vision: English | Not measured | 1279 | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| LMArena Vision: Chinese | Not measured | 1315 | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| LMArena Vision: reading text | Not measured | 1278 | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| LMArena Vision: creative writing | Not measured | 1251 | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 22 boards here | |||
What each workload costs
Three fixed token mixes at each model's listed price, so per-token rates become a bill.
Chat turn
1K input + 500 output tokens
Ripple 65B Preview costs less
Repository review
50K input + 3K output tokens
Ripple 65B Preview costs less
Agent loop
200K input + 10K output tokens
Ripple 65B Preview costs less
Listed OpenRouter rates, without cache or batch discounts. A workload that does not fit a model's context window would need splitting.
Specification differences
The leading value in a row is marked; a row with a missing value names no leader. Our two rows are marked in red.
| Specification | Ricursive Ripple 65B Preview | StepFun Step 5 Preview |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | Ricursiveai | StepFun |
| Weights | Open weights | Open weights |
| Released | November 4, 2026 | October 8, 2026 |
| Context window | 1.05M | 1M |
| Input $/Mtok | $0.20 | $1.00 |
| Output $/Mtok | $0.60 | $2.70 |
| Coding index | Not benchmarked | 57.4 |
| Independent measurements behind it | 0 | 4 |
| Cost per solved task | Not computable | Not computable |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is Ripple 65B Preview better than Step 5 Preview for coding?
Only Step 5 Preview has a coding score, 57.4 on the Vibe Coding Index; Ripple 65B Preview has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding. Pick Ripple 65B Preview for output tokens 4.5x cheaper ($0.60 vs $2.70 per million) and a larger context window (1.05M against 1M tokens).
Which is cheaper, Ripple 65B Preview or Step 5 Preview?
Ripple 65B Preview costs $0.20 per million input tokens and $0.60 per million output tokens; Step 5 Preview costs $1.00 and $2.70. Cost per solved task is known for neither of them.
Which has the bigger context window, Ripple 65B Preview or Step 5 Preview?
Ripple 65B Preview, with 1.05M tokens against 1M.
Has any benchmark tested both Ripple 65B Preview and Step 5 Preview?
No benchmark has tested both yet. Ripple 65B Preview has none yet; Step 5 Preview on LiveBench coding, LMArena WebDev and Terminal-Bench 4 (Vals AI). Compare them on price and context instead. Data as of November 14, 2026.