Model comparison

Longcat Flash Chat vs Qwen3.6 Flash

Longcat Flash Chat is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.1 to 38.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

Longcat Flash Chat Meituan

42.1

Rank #120 Confirmed

Qwen3.6 Flash Alibaba (Qwen)

38.8

Rank #182 Confirmed

Summary

  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Qwen3.6 Flash leads 29.0 to 19.0.
  • Longcat Flash Chat has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Longcat Flash Chat and Qwen3.6 Flash specifications
Longcat Flash ChatQwen3.6 Flash
ProviderMeituanAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index42.138.8
Released—2026-04-27
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—1M
Max output—66K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.19
Output $ / M tokens—$1.13
Results tracked1913

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Longcat Flash Chat: 43.5 (#87), Qwen3.6 Flash: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkLongcat Flash ChatQwen3.6 Flash
LMArena Coding1471—
ALE-Bench—326.4

Reasoning Qwen3.6 Flash leads

Longcat Flash Chat: 19.0 (#272), Qwen3.6 Flash: 29.0 (#96)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkLongcat Flash ChatQwen3.6 Flash
SimpleBench—35.2%
Kagi LLM Benchmark43.9%—
NYT Connections (extended)17.7%—
Chess Puzzles—20%
LMArena Hard Prompts1440—
Mystery Game Puzzles—18%
DTBench—77.1%
LMCA—31%
Epoch Capabilities Index—143.26

Math Too close to call

Longcat Flash Chat: 39.4 (#107), Qwen3.6 Flash: 39.0 (#117)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkLongcat Flash ChatQwen3.6 Flash
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—22.5%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—84.4%
LMArena Math1442—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—10.3%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—0%

Knowledge Qwen3.6 Flash leads

Longcat Flash Chat: 40.6 (#116), Qwen3.6 Flash: 42.1 (#100)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkLongcat Flash ChatQwen3.6 Flash
GPQA Diamond—83.3%
SimpleQA Verified—15.9%
LMArena Expert1454—

Multilingual Not comparable

Longcat Flash Chat: 51.9 (#101), Qwen3.6 Flash: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkLongcat Flash ChatQwen3.6 Flash
LMArena Non-English1404—
LMArena Chinese1465—
LMArena French1456—
LMArena German1408—
LMArena Japanese1373—
LMArena Korean1371—
LMArena Russian1395—
LMArena Spanish1445—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Longcat Flash Chat: 74.4 (#96), Qwen3.6 Flash: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkLongcat Flash ChatQwen3.6 Flash
LMArena Instruction Following1411—

Long Context Not comparable

Longcat Flash Chat: 43.5 (#93), Qwen3.6 Flash: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkLongcat Flash ChatQwen3.6 Flash
LMArena Longer Query1425—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Longcat Flash Chat: 61.0 (#91), Qwen3.6 Flash: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkLongcat Flash ChatQwen3.6 Flash
LMArena Text1427—
LMArena Creative Writing1388—
LMArena Multi-Turn1418—

Frequently asked questions

Is Longcat Flash Chat better than Qwen3.6 Flash?

Longcat Flash Chat is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.1 to 38.8 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Longcat Flash Chat and Qwen3.6 Flash share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Longcat Flash Chat has 19 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.6 Flash has 13.

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