Meituan: LongCat Flash Chat
MEITUAN Developer Architecture Profile
Intelligence (ELO)1150Chatbot Arena Verified
Max Context131,072Tokens
API Cost / 1M$1.00Blended Prompt + Completion
Model Capabilities
- Drafting
- Classification
LongCat-Flash-Chat is a large-scale Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model with 560B total parameters, of which 18.6B–31.3B (≈27B on average) are dynamically activated per input. It introduces a shortcut-connected MoE design to reduce communication overhead and achieve high throughput while maintaining training stability through advanced scaling strategies such as hyperparameter transfer, deterministic computation, and multi-stage optimization.
This release, LongCat-Flash-Chat, is a non-thinking foundation model optimized for conversational and agentic tasks. It supports long context windows up to 128K tokens and shows competitive performance across reasoning, coding, instruction following, and domain benchmarks, with particular strengths in tool use and complex multi-step interactions.
Granular Pricing Matrix
Input Tokens (Prompt)$0.20 / 1M
Output Tokens (Completion)$0.80 / 1M
Pricing data via OpenRouter. Sync: 3/16/2026
Evaluate Competitors
VS Engine MatchupMeituan: LongCat Flash Chat vs ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-LiteVS Engine MatchupMeituan: LongCat Flash Chat vs Qwen: Qwen3.5-35B-A3BVS Engine MatchupMeituan: LongCat Flash Chat vs Qwen: Qwen3.5-FlashVS Engine MatchupMeituan: LongCat Flash Chat vs MiniMax: MiniMax M2.5 (free)VS Engine MatchupMeituan: LongCat Flash Chat vs MiniMax: MiniMax M2.5VS Engine MatchupMeituan: LongCat Flash Chat vs StepFun: Step 3.5 Flash (free)