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The $0.05 Floor: Why StepFun’s Cache-Read Rate Changes the Persistent Agent Equation
2 outlets reporting
$0.05
per million tokens
StepFun’s Step-5 Preview listing prices cache reads at $0.05 per million tokens. On the same axis, Meta’s Muse Wonder charges $0.20, and Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5.5 charges $0.20 on its OpenRouter listing. Google’s Gemini 4 Argon enters at…