Model comparison
Llama 4 Maverick vs Longcat Flash Chat
Longcat Flash Chat is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.1 to 30.9 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 19 shared benchmarks.
MetaSummary
- They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 4 Maverick scores higher in 0 categories and Longcat Flash Chat in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Longcat Flash Chat leads 61.0 to 38.8.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Kagi LLM Benchmark: 55.9% for Llama 4 Maverick and 43.9% for Longcat Flash Chat.
Side by side
| Llama 4 Maverick | Longcat Flash Chat | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | Meituan |
| Noometry Index | 30.9 | 42.1 |
| Released | 2025-04-05 | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 128K | — |
| Max output | 4K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.19 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.65 | — |
| Results tracked | 54 | 19 |
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Category by category
Coding Longcat Flash Chat leads
Llama 4 Maverick: 26.6 (#324), Longcat Flash Chat: 43.5 (#87)
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Maverick | Longcat Flash Chat |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1302 | 1471 |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 21% | — |
| Aider Polyglot | 15.6% | — |
| SciCode | 33.1% | — |
| WeirdML | 24.5% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 49.7% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 61.4% | — |
| ALE-Bench | 172.97 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Llama 4 Maverick: 28.2 (#91), Longcat Flash Chat: —
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Maverick | Longcat Flash Chat |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 37.3% | — |
Reasoning Longcat Flash Chat leads
Llama 4 Maverick: 10.1 (#342), Longcat Flash Chat: 19.0 (#272)
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Maverick | Longcat Flash Chat |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 55.9% | 43.9% |
| NYT Connections (extended) | 8% | 17.7% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1281 | 1440 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0% | — |
| SimpleBench | 27.7% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 4.4% | — |
| CritPt | 0% | — |
| EnigmaEval | 0.6% | — |
| DTBench | 61.9% | — |
| LMCA | 15.9% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 132.2 | — |
| ForecastBench | 57.5 | — |
Math Longcat Flash Chat leads
Llama 4 Maverick: 26.0 (#262), Longcat Flash Chat: 39.4 (#107)
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Maverick | Longcat Flash Chat |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1299 | 1442 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 20.6% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 42.2% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 73% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 0.7% | — |
Knowledge Longcat Flash Chat leads
Llama 4 Maverick: 33.4 (#204), Longcat Flash Chat: 40.6 (#116)
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Maverick | Longcat Flash Chat |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1259 | 1454 |
| GPQA Diamond | 67% | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 5.7% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 81% | — |
| Confabulations | 22.6% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 8.2% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 65% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Llama 4 Maverick: 31.6 (#105), Longcat Flash Chat: —
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Maverick | Longcat Flash Chat |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1142 | — |
| GeoBench | 52% | — |
| SpatialViz-Bench | 31.8% | — |
Multilingual Longcat Flash Chat leads
Llama 4 Maverick: 42.2 (#195), Longcat Flash Chat: 51.9 (#101)
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Maverick | Longcat Flash Chat |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1269 | 1404 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1277 | 1465 |
| LMArena French | 1259 | 1456 |
| LMArena German | 1291 | 1408 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1207 | 1373 |
| LMArena Korean | 1203 | 1371 |
| LMArena Russian | 1286 | 1395 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1293 | 1445 |
Instruction Following Longcat Flash Chat leads
Llama 4 Maverick: 71.7 (#146), Longcat Flash Chat: 74.4 (#96)
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Maverick | Longcat Flash Chat |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1267 | 1411 |
| IFEval | 90.8% | — |
Long Context Longcat Flash Chat leads
Llama 4 Maverick: 31.4 (#279), Longcat Flash Chat: 43.5 (#93)
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Maverick | Longcat Flash Chat |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1280 | 1425 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 46.2% | — |
Writing & Preference Longcat Flash Chat leads
Llama 4 Maverick: 38.8 (#252), Longcat Flash Chat: 61.0 (#91)
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Maverick | Longcat Flash Chat |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1287 | 1427 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1267 | 1388 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1289 | 1418 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 62% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 860 | — |
| WildBench | 80% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Llama 4 Maverick better than Longcat Flash Chat?
Longcat Flash Chat is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.1 to 30.9 on the Noometry Index.
Is Llama 4 Maverick or Longcat Flash Chat better for coding?
Longcat Flash Chat scores higher on coding benchmarks: 43.5 versus 26.6 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Llama 4 Maverick and Longcat Flash Chat share?
19 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 4 Maverick has 54 scored results on Noometry and Longcat Flash Chat has 19.