In this installment of our ongoing exploration of Cardano’s network parameters, we turn our attention to price_step , one half of the critical executionPrices configuration that determines how much users pay for smart contract operations. While its partner price_mem governs the cost of memory usage, price_step sets the price for computational processing power—every logical operation, cryptographic calculation, and algorithmic step executed by Plutus scripts.
Read more about the price_step parameter here on the Lido Nation website: 
https://www.lidonation.com/en/posts/price-step/