Anthropic's new flagship for demanding reasoning, coding, and long-horizon agentic work, succeeding Claude Opus 5.
StepFun's fast and efficient language model.
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Both Claude Opus 5.5 and Step 3.5 Flash are capable AI models. The best choice depends on your specific use case: consider pricing, context window, speed, and which capabilities (vision, reasoning, audio) you need.
Step 3.5 Flash has a lower blended cost. Claude Opus 5.5: $4.00 input / $20.00 output. Step 3.5 Flash: $0.10 input / $0.30 output.
Claude Opus 5.5 has a larger context window: Claude Opus 5.5 supports 1M tokens vs Step 3.5 Flash at 262K tokens.
Claude Opus 5.5 supports vision/image input, but Step 3.5 Flash does not.
Key differences: Step 3.5 Flash is significantly cheaper; only Claude Opus 5.5 supports vision input. Compare full specs on this page.
If cost is your priority, choose the cheaper option. If you need the highest intelligence for complex tasks, pick the higher-scoring model. For long documents or codebases, choose the larger context window. You can try both Claude Opus 5.5 and Step 3.5 Flash for free on idapt.app to see which performs better for your specific needs.