StepFun 阶跃星辰 vs LightOn (Paradigm)
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
StepFun 阶跃星辰
Chinese multimodal frontier-model lab founded by Microsoft Research ve...
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LightOn (Paradigm)
Sovereign on-prem GenAI platform for regulated European enterprises
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| RECATOOLS Score | 6.6 / 10 | 6.1 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Enterprise |
| Free tier | — | — |
| Paid from | — | — |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✗ |
| Users | — | — |
| Founded | 2023 | — |
| Maker | — | — |
| Verdict | StepFun (阶跃星辰) is a well-funded Chinese AI lab building capable multimodal Step models, with an OpenAI-compatible API, realtime voice tooling and recent open-source releases such as Step 3.7 Flash aimed at agentic us... |
LightOn's pitch is straightforward: keep the model and the data on your own infrastructure. Paradigm bundles RAG, agents and access to curated open and in-house models behind one API, deployable on-prem or hybrid — the o... |
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