# Ripple-65B Preview vs Step 3.5 Flash

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Ripple-65B Preview and Step 3.5 Flash across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/ripple-65b-preview-vs-step-3-5-flash
- Last updated: November 4, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 2
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

Evidence is too thin for a benchmark verdict: Ripple-65B Preview and Step 3.5 Flash share only 2 sourced benchmark rows.

## Summary

- Only 2 shared sourced benchmark rows are available. That is not enough for a broad capability verdict, so this mirror does not name an overall winner.
- Ripple-65B Preview has the lower published output-token price.
- Ripple-65B Preview has the larger published context window at 1M.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Ripple-65B Preview | Step 3.5 Flash |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Ricursive Intelligence | StepFun |
| Type | Open Weight | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Non-Reasoning |
| Context | 1M | 256K |
| Independent public score (not head-to-head) | null | 41.69 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 17 | 3 |
| Pricing (input/output) | Pricing unavailable / Pricing unavailable | $0.10 / $0.30 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Ripple-65B Preview public-lane score: Coming soon
- Step 3.5 Flash public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Ripple-65B Preview | Step 3.5 Flash | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 80.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| τ³-bench results | 31.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| AutomationBench | 36.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MCP Atlas | 71.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Ripple-65B Preview public-lane score: Coming soon
- Step 3.5 Flash public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Ripple-65B Preview | Step 3.5 Flash | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 80.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Verified | 76.5% | 74.4% | Ripple-65B Preview |
| SWE-bench Pro | 61.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| DeepSWE | 44.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SciCode | 39.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | Coming soon | 86.4% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Ripple-65B Preview public-lane score: Coming soon
- Step 3.5 Flash public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Ripple-65B Preview | Step 3.5 Flash | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMLU | 89.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro | 84.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA-D | 85.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Ripple-65B Preview public-lane score: Coming soon
- Step 3.5 Flash public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Ripple-65B Preview | Step 3.5 Flash | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | 79.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Ripple-65B Preview public-lane score: Coming soon
- Step 3.5 Flash public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Ripple-65B Preview | Step 3.5 Flash | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME 2024 | 97.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| AIME 2025 | 98.3% | 97.3% | Ripple-65B Preview |
| AIME26 | 95.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2026 | 90.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Is there enough evidence to pick between Ripple-65B Preview and Step 3.5 Flash?

Not yet. The models share only 2 sourced benchmark rows, so this mirror reports the available measurements and metadata without naming a broad winner.

### What can I compare safely on this page?

Published pricing, context windows, model type, and individual shared benchmark rows are directly comparable. Independent overall scores and non-overlapping benchmark coverage are labeled separately and should not be read as a controlled head-to-head result.

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- [Ripple-65B Preview profile](/models/ripple-65b-preview)
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