4Paradigm vs StepFun

4Paradigm — Application · Public · $2B mkt cap · 2 of 2 figures sourced  |  StepFun — Foundation Models · Private · $10B valuation · 2 of 2 figures sourced

Relationship

Assembled from the recorded fields for this pair, not hand-checked. The comparison below is read from each company’s own profile.

Aligned comparison

Field4ParadigmStepFun
Size$2B mkt cap$10B valuation different basis
Employees——
Founded20142023 9 yrs later
StatusPublicPrivate
CategoryApplicationFoundation Models
Stack layerApplication, Hardware, PlatformAI agent, API service, Application, Developer tool, Model API
HeadquartersBeijing, ChinaShanghai, China

Capability overlap

Shared · 4

Model inferenceKnowledge retrievalText generationWorkflow automation

Not verified for StepFun · 3

Document extractionModel trainingServer systems

Recorded for 4Paradigm. StepFun’s product records say nothing either way — a missing record is not a missing capability.

Not verified for 4Paradigm · 8

Agent orchestrationAgentic codingCode generationImage generationSpeech to textText to speechVoice agentSearch answers

Recorded for StepFun. 4Paradigm’s product records say nothing either way — a missing record is not a missing capability.

Products, side by side

Algorithmic pairing — assembled from recorded fields, not hand-checked

4Paradigm

Application

4Paradigm SageGPTApplication

Enterprise assistant that answers from company data and triggers actions in connected systems.

StepFun

Application

阶跃AI (StepFun AI)Application

StepFun's consumer AI assistant, available on the web and as Windows and macOS desktop clients, offering web search, knowledge-base Q&A, image creation, tool use and speech recognition.

No counterpart

4Paradigm sells these in a stack layer with no product recorded for StepFun yet — nothing on the other side to compare them against.

Platform

4Paradigm Sage AIOSPlatform

Operating layer that runs and manages an enterprise's AI applications across its own hardware.

4Paradigm Sage HyperCyclePlatform

An AutoML platform (ML/CV/OCR components) that lets non-experts build AI applications, used by major banks and insurers including ICBC and China UnionPay.

Hardware

4Paradigm SageOneHardware

Integrated compute appliance sold for running 4Paradigm's software on premises.

StepFun sells these in a stack layer with no product recorded for 4Paradigm yet — nothing on the other side to compare them against.

API service

Step PlanAPI service

A subscription service from the StepFun Open Platform that supplies a monthly Credit pool for calling StepFun's flagship models from third-party coding tools and agent clients such as Claude Code, Cursor, OpenClaw, Cline and Zed.

AI agent

StepClawAI agent

A one-click cloud-deployed AI agent offered inside the 阶跃AI assistant that interprets instructions and carries out tasks autonomously.

Developer tool

阶跃星辰 AI Studio (StepFun AI Studio)Developer tool

A browser-based workspace for building, testing and deploying AI applications on StepFun's models, with a playground, a showcase library of example apps and a personal asset library.

Model API

StepFun Open PlatformModel API

API access to StepFun's text, vision, speech and image models, with credit packages and enterprise plans.

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