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Model comparison

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite vs Longcat Flash Chat

Longcat Flash Chat is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.1 to 37.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Google

37.0

Rank #211 Confirmed

Longcat Flash Chat Meituan

42.1

Rank #120 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite scores higher in 1 category and Longcat Flash Chat in 7 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in long context, where Longcat Flash Chat leads 43.5 to 33.3.
  • Longcat Flash Chat has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 2.5 Flash-LiteLongcat Flash Chat
ProviderGoogleMeituan
Noometry Index37.042.1
Released2025-06-17—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M—
Max output66K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.10—
Output $ / M tokens$0.40—
Results tracked3319

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Category by category

Coding Longcat Flash Chat leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 38.5 (#173), Longcat Flash Chat: 43.5 (#87)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteLongcat Flash Chat
LMArena Coding13731471
WeirdML35.2%—
ALE-Bench325.9—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 28.0 (#96), Longcat Flash Chat: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteLongcat Flash Chat
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard36.9%—

Reasoning Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 22.2 (#205), Longcat Flash Chat: 19.0 (#272)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteLongcat Flash Chat
Kagi LLM Benchmark40.5%43.9%
LMArena Hard Prompts13771440
NYT Connections (extended)—17.7%
DTBench62.8%—
LMCA18.1%—
Epoch Capabilities Index133.94—

Math Longcat Flash Chat leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 38.0 (#144), Longcat Flash Chat: 39.4 (#107)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteLongcat Flash Chat
LMArena Math13731442
Omni-MATH48%—

Knowledge Longcat Flash Chat leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 32.5 (#210), Longcat Flash Chat: 40.6 (#116)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteLongcat Flash Chat
LMArena Expert13731454
MMLU-Pro53.7%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate3.3%—
GPQA (HELM)30.9%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 29.1 (#114), Longcat Flash Chat: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteLongcat Flash Chat
LMArena Vision1198—
VPCT30%—

Multilingual Longcat Flash Chat leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 49.3 (#134), Longcat Flash Chat: 51.9 (#101)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteLongcat Flash Chat
LMArena Non-English13691404
LMArena Chinese14041465
LMArena French13881456
LMArena German13891408
LMArena Japanese13591373
LMArena Korean13601371
LMArena Russian13731395
LMArena Spanish13961445

Instruction Following Longcat Flash Chat leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 70.0 (#168), Longcat Flash Chat: 74.4 (#96)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteLongcat Flash Chat
LMArena Instruction Following13671411
IFEval81%—

Long Context Longcat Flash Chat leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 33.3 (#262), Longcat Flash Chat: 43.5 (#93)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteLongcat Flash Chat
LMArena Longer Query13731425
Fiction.LiveBench47.2%—

Writing & Preference Longcat Flash Chat leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 56.8 (#135), Longcat Flash Chat: 61.0 (#91)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteLongcat Flash Chat
LMArena Text13791427
LMArena Creative Writing13671388
LMArena Multi-Turn13661418
WildBench81.8%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite better than Longcat Flash Chat?

Longcat Flash Chat is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.1 to 37.0 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite or Longcat Flash Chat better for coding?

Longcat Flash Chat scores higher on coding benchmarks: 43.5 versus 38.5 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite and Longcat Flash Chat share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite has 33 scored results on Noometry and Longcat Flash Chat has 19.

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