Model comparison

GPT-5.6 Sol vs Longcat Flash Chat

GPT-5.6 Sol is the stronger model overall, scoring 65.0 to 42.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 19 shared benchmarks.

GPT-5.6 Sol OpenAI

65.0

Rank #7 Confirmed

Longcat Flash Chat Meituan

42.1

Rank #120 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-5.6 Sol scores higher in 8 categories and Longcat Flash Chat in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where GPT-5.6 Sol leads 74.8 to 19.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is NYT Connections (extended): 93.8% for GPT-5.6 Sol and 17.7% for Longcat Flash Chat.
  • Longcat Flash Chat has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-5.6 Sol and Longcat Flash Chat specifications
GPT-5.6 SolLongcat Flash Chat
ProviderOpenAIMeituan
Noometry Index65.042.1
Released2026-07-09—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$4—
Output $ / M tokens$20—
Results tracked6519

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5.6 Sol leads

GPT-5.6 Sol: 65.1 (#7), Longcat Flash Chat: 43.5 (#87)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 SolLongcat Flash Chat
LMArena Coding14981471
DeepSWE72.7%—
FrontierCode47.5%—
CursorBench41.7%—
LMArena WebDev1618—
FrontierSWE32.2%—
SciCode57.1%—
GSO76.5%—
WeirdML89.4%—
MirrorCode20%—
ALE-Bench2,177—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-5.6 Sol: 50.3 (#7), Longcat Flash Chat: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 SolLongcat Flash Chat
APEX-Agents51.4%—
OSWorld 2.027.3%—
τ²-bench Banking46.9%—
PostTrainBench36.2%—
BALROG60%—
GBAEval52.6%—
GDP.pdf30.7%—
LMArena Search1257—
Vending-Bench 29,619—

Reasoning GPT-5.6 Sol leads

GPT-5.6 Sol: 74.8 (#8), Longcat Flash Chat: 19.0 (#272)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 SolLongcat Flash Chat
Kagi LLM Benchmark67%43.9%
NYT Connections (extended)93.8%17.7%
LMArena Hard Prompts14841440
ARC-AGI-292.5%—
SimpleBench71.7%—
ARC-AGI-197.5%—
CritPt32.3%—
Chess Puzzles64%—
EnigmaEval37.1%—
EBR-Bench44.8%—
Mystery Game Puzzles58%—
DTBench96%—
LMCA59.2%—
Surface Evolver Bench93.1%—
Bench to the Future 30.14—
Epoch Capabilities Index161.66—

Math GPT-5.6 Sol leads

GPT-5.6 Sol: 85.6 (#9), Longcat Flash Chat: 39.4 (#107)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 SolLongcat Flash Chat
LMArena Math14741442
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)89.1%—
FrontierMath Tier 482.9%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025100%—
ProofBench83%—
FrontierMath Erdős0%—

Knowledge GPT-5.6 Sol leads

GPT-5.6 Sol: 64.3 (#18), Longcat Flash Chat: 40.6 (#116)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 SolLongcat Flash Chat
LMArena Expert15161454
GPQA Diamond93.5%—
SimpleQA Verified69.7%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate12.4%—

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-5.6 Sol: 48.6 (#9), Longcat Flash Chat: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 SolLongcat Flash Chat
LMArena Vision1281—
Blueprint-Bench 233.6%—
Furniture Assembly56.7%—
LMArena Document1483—

Multilingual GPT-5.6 Sol leads

GPT-5.6 Sol: 55.3 (#32), Longcat Flash Chat: 51.9 (#101)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 SolLongcat Flash Chat
LMArena Non-English14521404
LMArena Chinese15271465
LMArena French14771456
LMArena German14761408
LMArena Japanese14711373
LMArena Korean14421371
LMArena Russian14681395
LMArena Spanish14411445

Instruction Following GPT-5.6 Sol leads

GPT-5.6 Sol: 77.7 (#16), Longcat Flash Chat: 74.4 (#96)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 SolLongcat Flash Chat
LMArena Instruction Following14821411

Long Context GPT-5.6 Sol leads

GPT-5.6 Sol: 45.4 (#42), Longcat Flash Chat: 43.5 (#93)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 SolLongcat Flash Chat
LMArena Longer Query14801425

Writing & Preference GPT-5.6 Sol leads

GPT-5.6 Sol: 73.3 (#12), Longcat Flash Chat: 61.0 (#91)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 SolLongcat Flash Chat
LMArena Text14571427
LMArena Creative Writing14481388
LMArena Multi-Turn14601418
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1972—
EQ-Bench 41250—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-5.6 Sol better than Longcat Flash Chat?

GPT-5.6 Sol is the stronger model overall, scoring 65.0 to 42.1 on the Noometry Index.

Is GPT-5.6 Sol or Longcat Flash Chat better for coding?

GPT-5.6 Sol scores higher on coding benchmarks: 65.1 versus 43.5 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do GPT-5.6 Sol and Longcat Flash Chat share?

19 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-5.6 Sol has 65 scored results on Noometry and Longcat Flash Chat has 19.

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