Box vs StepFun

Box — Application · Public · $4.8B mkt cap · 4 of 4 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

FieldBoxStepFun
Size$4.8B mkt cap$10B valuation different basis
Employees2,912—
Founded20052023 18 yrs later
StatusPublicPrivate
CategoryApplicationFoundation Models
Stack layerAI agent, Agent platform, Application, Developer tool, PlatformAI agent, API service, Application, Developer tool, Model API
HeadquartersRedwood City, USAShanghai, China

Capability overlap

Shared · 4

Agent orchestrationKnowledge retrievalText generationWorkflow automation

Not verified for StepFun · 2

Document extractionSummarization

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

Not verified for Box · 8

Agentic codingCode generationImage generationModel inferenceSpeech to textText to speechVoice agentSearch answers

Recorded for StepFun. Box’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

Box

Application

Box AutomateApplication

No-code agentic workflow-automation platform that orchestrates intelligent content workflows -- contract approvals, claims processing, document routing -- combining AI agents, data extraction and document processing end to end.

Box ExtractApplication

Agentic data extraction service that pulls structured fields from documents, spreadsheets, images and video in Box using OCR and reasoning models, and writes the results back as Box metadata or returns them via API.

AI agent

Box AI AgentsAI agent

Agents built on the Box platform that combine frontier models from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google with an organization's own content, automating multi-step tasks such as threat analysis and contract review while respecting Box's enterprise permissions.

Developer tool

Box MCP serverDeveloper tool

Model Context Protocol server that lets external AI agents search, read and extract metadata from content in Box while enforcing the calling user's existing Box permissions, available as a Box-hosted remote server and as a self-hosted Python project.

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.

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.

No counterpart

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

Agent platform

Box AI StudioAgent platform

No-code environment where Box administrators create, configure, test and deploy custom AI agents scoped to selected documents and models, and control which users can access each agent.

Platform

Box AIPlatform

Generative AI layer across Box's content platform that answers questions over stored documents, summarizes files and folders, and extracts structured data from contracts and forms; agentic, multi-step work is Box AI Agents, recorded separately.

StepFun sells these in a stack layer with no product recorded for Box 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.

Model API

StepFun Open PlatformModel API

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