How did StepFun Step Image Edit 2 do on X?
StepFun posted the Step Image Edit 2 launch from @StepFun_ai on May 12, 2026. The post has 100,053 views, 213 likes, 26 reposts, 5 quotes and 14 replies, an engagement rate of 0.26%. It ranks #1735 of the 2839 launches Gridd tracks.
🚀 Step Image Edit 2 is live!! A 3.5B-parameter image model that ranks #1 on KRIS-Bench —the leading benchmark for instruction-based image editing —across overall, factual, and conceptual categories. It outperforms models at 5–6x the parameter count. Performance - 0.7s text-to-image - 1.6s per edit - $0.003 per image Capabilities → Text-to-image generation → Instruction-based image editing → Bilingual text rendering (accurate Chinese + English characters) → Style transfer with subject consistency Get started Model ID: `step-image-edit-2` Available now on the Stepfun open platform. docs→https://platform.stepfun.ai/docs/en/guides/models/step-image-edit-2
- 57%the median launch175K median views
- #1735of the launches we trackout of 2839
- 6.0xits own following16,802 followers
- Views
- 100.1K
- Likes
- 213
- Reposts
- 26
- Quotes
- 5
- Replies
- 14
- Bookmarks
- 116
What would these views cost to buy?
At $100 per 1,000 views, the rate a brand pays an agency charging $100K for one million views, 100.1K views would cost $10K. Gridd guarantees one million views, 10.0x what this post got, for about $25K.
The post reached about 6.0 views for every follower of @StepFun_ai.
What launched?
StepFun launched Step Image Edit 2, a 3.5B-parameter image model for text-to-image and instruction-based editing priced at $0.003 per image.
How does it compare with other launches?
StepFun Step Image Edit 2 has more views than 39% of the 2839 launches Gridd tracks: 57% of the median launch's 175K views.
- StepFun Step Image Edit 2100.1K
- Median tracked launch175K
- #1: xAI Voice Cloning204M
| Metric | StepFun Step Image Edit 2 | Median launch |
|---|---|---|
| Views | 100.1K | 175K |
| Engagement rate | 0.26% | 0.48% |
| Views per follower | 6.0 | 2.8 |
| Quote posts | 5 | 27 |
| Saves per 10K views | 11.6 | 14.2 |
Other StepFun launches we track: StepFun Step 5 Preview (487.8K views), StepFun Step 3.7 Flash (363.6K views), StepFun StepAudio 2.5 ASR (80.3K views), StepFun StepAudio 2.5 Realtime (66.2K views), StepFun Step Code v0.1.0 (47.6K views), StepFun StepAudio 3 (36K views). All 9 StepFun launches, or every ai launch.
Against launches like it
A launch only means something against comparable ones. These are the groups it belongs to, and where it sits in each.
| Compared with | Launches | Median views | This one | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI launches | 1,462 | 263K | 38% | #1013 |
| Accounts 10K to 100K followers | 1,135 | 99.4K | 1.0x | #564 |
| Image launch posts | 620 | 143.1K | 70% | #352 |
| Every launch | 2,839 | 175K | 57% | #1735 |
What this launch shows
From an account with 16.8K followers, the post reached 6.0 times the account's following. Launches from accounts 10K to 100K followers reach a median of 3.1 times their following, so this one went about 1.9 times further than usual for its size. It ranks 564 of 1135 launches from accounts that size.
It drew 5 quote posts, 0.5 per 10,000 views against a median of 1.7. Fewer people than usual added their own take, and a quote post is what carries a launch to audiences the account does not have.
The first line is "🚀 Step Image Edit 2 is live!!". The post runs 85 words, against a median of 39 for launch posts here, and leads with an image: image launches have a median of 143.1K views, against 186.1K for the rest.
There is a link in the post. Launch posts with a link have a median of 160.8K views in the tracker.
It went out on a Tuesday (UTC). Tuesday launches have a median of 192.3K views, the strongest day in the tracker.
Every comparison is against the 2839 launches in the tracker, read on Nov 14, 2026. Medians, not averages. See the state of launches on X for the full breakdown.
Questions about this launch
- What is StepFun?
- In its own words on X: "Scale-up possibilities for everyone. API Platform: HuggingFace" StepFun posted the Step Image Edit 2 launch from @StepFun_ai on May 12, 2026.
- How many views did StepFun Step Image Edit 2 get on X?
- 100,053 views. StepFun posted it from @StepFun_ai on May 12, 2026, and the post has 213 likes, 26 reposts, 5 quotes, 14 replies and 116 bookmarks. Gridd re-reads these numbers from the post every six hours; these were read on Nov 14, 2026.
- Was StepFun Step Image Edit 2 a big launch on X?
- It ranks #1735 of the 2839 launches Gridd tracks, with more views than 39% of them and 57% of the median launch's 175K views. Its engagement rate is 0.26%, against a median of 0.48%.
- What would 100.1K views on X cost to buy?
- At $100 per 1,000 views, the rate a brand pays an agency charging $100K for one million views, 100.1K views would cost $10K. Gridd guarantees one million views, 10.0x what this post got, for about $25K.
Source: Gridd launch tracker, gridd.agency/launches/stepfun-step-image-edit-2, read from the post on X on Nov 14, 2026. Free to cite with a link (CC BY 4.0). Get every launch as JSON.