Model comparison
Longcat Flash Chat vs Mistral Medium 3.1
Longcat Flash Chat is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.1 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AISummary
- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Longcat Flash Chat scores higher in 2 categories and Mistral Medium 3.1 in 0 categories; 2 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Longcat Flash Chat leads 19.0 to 10.6.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is NYT Connections (extended): 17.7% for Longcat Flash Chat and 6.5% for Mistral Medium 3.1.
- Longcat Flash Chat has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Longcat Flash Chat | Mistral Medium 3.1 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meituan | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 42.1 | 31.9 |
| Released | — | — |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | 131K |
| Max output | — | 105K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.40 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $2 |
| Results tracked | 19 | 3 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Longcat Flash Chat: 43.5 (#87), Mistral Medium 3.1: —
| Benchmark | Longcat Flash Chat | Mistral Medium 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1471 | — |
Reasoning Longcat Flash Chat leads
Longcat Flash Chat: 19.0 (#272), Mistral Medium 3.1: 10.6 (#341)
| Benchmark | Longcat Flash Chat | Mistral Medium 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| NYT Connections (extended) | 17.7% | 6.5% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 43.9% | — |
| Thematic Generalization | — | 20.3% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1440 | — |
Math Not comparable
Longcat Flash Chat: 39.4 (#107), Mistral Medium 3.1: —
| Benchmark | Longcat Flash Chat | Mistral Medium 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1442 | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Longcat Flash Chat: 40.6 (#116), Mistral Medium 3.1: —
| Benchmark | Longcat Flash Chat | Mistral Medium 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1454 | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Longcat Flash Chat: 51.9 (#101), Mistral Medium 3.1: —
| Benchmark | Longcat Flash Chat | Mistral Medium 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1404 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1465 | — |
| LMArena French | 1456 | — |
| LMArena German | 1408 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1373 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1371 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1395 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1445 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Longcat Flash Chat: 74.4 (#96), Mistral Medium 3.1: —
| Benchmark | Longcat Flash Chat | Mistral Medium 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1411 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Longcat Flash Chat: 43.5 (#93), Mistral Medium 3.1: —
| Benchmark | Longcat Flash Chat | Mistral Medium 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1425 | — |
Writing & Preference Longcat Flash Chat leads
Longcat Flash Chat: 61.0 (#91), Mistral Medium 3.1: 55.5 (#145)
| Benchmark | Longcat Flash Chat | Mistral Medium 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1427 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1388 | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1476 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1418 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Longcat Flash Chat better than Mistral Medium 3.1?
Longcat Flash Chat is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.1 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.
How many benchmarks do Longcat Flash Chat and Mistral Medium 3.1 share?
1 benchmark has published results for both models. Longcat Flash Chat has 19 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Medium 3.1 has 3.