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Model comparison

Longcat Flash Chat vs Qwen3.6 35B-A3B

Longcat Flash Chat is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.5 to 37.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Longcat Flash Chat Meituan

41.5

Rank #121 Confirmed

Qwen3.6 35B-A3B Alibaba (Qwen)

37.2

Rank #194 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Longcat Flash Chat scores higher in 1 category and Qwen3.6 35B-A3B in 3 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen3.6 35B-A3B leads 51.4 to 40.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is NYT Connections (extended): 17.7% for Longcat Flash Chat and 41.6% for Qwen3.6 35B-A3B.

Side by side

Longcat Flash ChatQwen3.6 35B-A3B
ProviderMeituanAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index41.537.2
Released—2026-04-01
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—262K
Max output—66K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.25
Output $ / M tokens—$1.49
Results tracked1914

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Category by category

Coding Longcat Flash Chat leads

Longcat Flash Chat: 42.9 (#85), Qwen3.6 35B-A3B: 36.7 (#190)

BenchmarkLongcat Flash ChatQwen3.6 35B-A3B
SciCode—35.8%
WeirdML—34.5%
LMArena Coding1471—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Longcat Flash Chat: —, Qwen3.6 35B-A3B: 21.9 (#126)

BenchmarkLongcat Flash ChatQwen3.6 35B-A3B
Terminal-Bench—23%

Reasoning Qwen3.6 35B-A3B leads

Longcat Flash Chat: 18.3 (#267), Qwen3.6 35B-A3B: 27.2 (#112)

BenchmarkLongcat Flash ChatQwen3.6 35B-A3B
NYT Connections (extended)17.7%41.6%
Kagi LLM Benchmark43.9%—
CritPt—0.3%
Chess Puzzles—26%
LMArena Hard Prompts1440—
Mystery Game Puzzles—22%
DTBench—73.9%
LMCA—29.7%
Surface Evolver Bench—44.4%
Epoch Capabilities Index—143.92

Math Qwen3.6 35B-A3B leads

Longcat Flash Chat: 36.6 (#107), Qwen3.6 35B-A3B: 37.9 (#90)

BenchmarkLongcat Flash ChatQwen3.6 35B-A3B
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—20.4%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—86.7%
LMArena Math1441—

Knowledge Qwen3.6 35B-A3B leads

Longcat Flash Chat: 40.0 (#111), Qwen3.6 35B-A3B: 51.4 (#63)

BenchmarkLongcat Flash ChatQwen3.6 35B-A3B
GPQA Diamond—84.8%
LMArena Expert1454—

Multilingual Not comparable

Longcat Flash Chat: 52.1 (#95), Qwen3.6 35B-A3B: —

BenchmarkLongcat Flash ChatQwen3.6 35B-A3B
LMArena Non-English1404—
LMArena Chinese1465—
LMArena French1457—
LMArena German1409—
LMArena Japanese1373—
LMArena Korean1372—
LMArena Russian1396—
LMArena Spanish1445—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Longcat Flash Chat: 74.6 (#92), Qwen3.6 35B-A3B: —

BenchmarkLongcat Flash ChatQwen3.6 35B-A3B
LMArena Instruction Following1411—

Long Context Not comparable

Longcat Flash Chat: 43.5 (#89), Qwen3.6 35B-A3B: —

BenchmarkLongcat Flash ChatQwen3.6 35B-A3B
LMArena Longer Query1425—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Longcat Flash Chat: 61.2 (#88), Qwen3.6 35B-A3B: —

BenchmarkLongcat Flash ChatQwen3.6 35B-A3B
LMArena Text1427—
LMArena Creative Writing1388—
LMArena Multi-Turn1418—

Frequently asked questions

Is Longcat Flash Chat better than Qwen3.6 35B-A3B?

Longcat Flash Chat is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.5 to 37.2 on the Noometry Index.

Is Longcat Flash Chat or Qwen3.6 35B-A3B better for coding?

Longcat Flash Chat scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.9 versus 36.7 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Longcat Flash Chat and Qwen3.6 35B-A3B share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Longcat Flash Chat has 19 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.6 35B-A3B has 14.

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