Model comparison
Longcat Flash Chat vs Qwen3 14B
Longcat Flash Chat is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.1 to 35.5 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Longcat Flash Chat scores higher in 5 categories and Qwen3 14B in 0 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where Longcat Flash Chat leads 43.5 to 37.3.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Kagi LLM Benchmark: 43.9% for Longcat Flash Chat and 49.1% for Qwen3 14B.
Side by side
| Longcat Flash Chat | Qwen3 14B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meituan | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 42.1 | 35.5 |
| Released | — | 2025-04 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 131K |
| Max output | — | 8K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.35 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $1.40 |
| Results tracked | 19 | 12 |
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Category by category
Coding Longcat Flash Chat leads
Longcat Flash Chat: 43.5 (#87), Qwen3 14B: 37.3 (#195)
| Benchmark | Longcat Flash Chat | Qwen3 14B |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | — | 31.6% |
| LMArena Coding | 1471 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Longcat Flash Chat: —, Qwen3 14B: 29.6 (#83)
| Benchmark | Longcat Flash Chat | Qwen3 14B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 41% |
Reasoning Too close to call
Longcat Flash Chat: 19.0 (#272), Qwen3 14B: 18.5 (#280)
| Benchmark | Longcat Flash Chat | Qwen3 14B |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 43.9% | 49.1% |
| NYT Connections (extended) | 17.7% | — |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 4% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1440 | — |
| DTBench | — | 64% |
| LMCA | — | 18.2% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 138.23 |
Math Too close to call
Longcat Flash Chat: 39.4 (#107), Qwen3 14B: 38.6 (#133)
| Benchmark | Longcat Flash Chat | Qwen3 14B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 66.4% |
| LMArena Math | 1442 | — |
Knowledge Longcat Flash Chat leads
Longcat Flash Chat: 40.6 (#116), Qwen3 14B: 39.3 (#134)
| Benchmark | Longcat Flash Chat | Qwen3 14B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 63.8% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 5.4% |
| LMArena Expert | 1454 | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Longcat Flash Chat: 51.9 (#101), Qwen3 14B: —
| Benchmark | Longcat Flash Chat | Qwen3 14B |
|---|---|---|
| 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), Qwen3 14B: —
| Benchmark | Longcat Flash Chat | Qwen3 14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1411 | — |
Long Context Longcat Flash Chat leads
Longcat Flash Chat: 43.5 (#93), Qwen3 14B: 38.1 (#204)
| Benchmark | Longcat Flash Chat | Qwen3 14B |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 62.5% |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1425 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Longcat Flash Chat: 61.0 (#91), Qwen3 14B: —
| Benchmark | Longcat Flash Chat | Qwen3 14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1427 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1388 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1418 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Longcat Flash Chat better than Qwen3 14B?
Longcat Flash Chat is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.1 to 35.5 on the Noometry Index.
Is Longcat Flash Chat or Qwen3 14B better for coding?
Longcat Flash Chat scores higher on coding benchmarks: 43.5 versus 37.3 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Longcat Flash Chat and Qwen3 14B share?
1 benchmark has published results for both models. Longcat Flash Chat has 19 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 14B has 12.