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Longcat Flash Chat vs Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct

Longcat Flash Chat is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.5 to 37.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Longcat Flash Chat Meituan

41.5

Rank #121 Confirmed

Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct Alibaba (Qwen)

37.7

Rank #186 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Longcat Flash Chat scores higher in 7 categories and Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct in 1 category; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in coding, where Longcat Flash Chat leads 42.9 to 36.2.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Kagi LLM Benchmark: 43.9% for Longcat Flash Chat and 49.5% for Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct.

Side by side

Longcat Flash ChatQwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
ProviderMeituanAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index41.537.7
Released—2025-04
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—262K
Max output—66K
Input $ / M tokens—$1.50
Output $ / M tokens—$7.50
Results tracked1925

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Category by category

Coding Longcat Flash Chat leads

Longcat Flash Chat: 42.9 (#85), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 36.2 (#199)

BenchmarkLongcat Flash ChatQwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Coding14711413
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—55.4%
LMArena WebDev—1275
GSO—4.9%
WeirdML—41.2%
ALE-Bench—461.45
AlgoTune—1.44

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Longcat Flash Chat: —, Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 23.7 (#116)

BenchmarkLongcat Flash ChatQwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
Terminal-Bench—27.2%

Reasoning Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads

Longcat Flash Chat: 18.3 (#267), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 24.7 (#141)

BenchmarkLongcat Flash ChatQwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
Kagi LLM Benchmark43.9%49.5%
LMArena Hard Prompts14401372
NYT Connections (extended)17.7%—

Math Longcat Flash Chat leads

Longcat Flash Chat: 36.6 (#107), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 34.9 (#151)

BenchmarkLongcat Flash ChatQwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Math14411364

Knowledge Longcat Flash Chat leads

Longcat Flash Chat: 40.0 (#111), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 36.4 (#159)

BenchmarkLongcat Flash ChatQwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Expert14541337

Multilingual Longcat Flash Chat leads

Longcat Flash Chat: 52.1 (#95), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 47.8 (#143)

BenchmarkLongcat Flash ChatQwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Non-English14041345
LMArena Chinese14651356
LMArena French14571394
LMArena German14091324
LMArena Japanese13731309
LMArena Korean13721307
LMArena Russian13961367
LMArena Spanish14451360

Instruction Following Longcat Flash Chat leads

Longcat Flash Chat: 74.6 (#92), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 71.8 (#142)

BenchmarkLongcat Flash ChatQwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following14111356

Long Context Longcat Flash Chat leads

Longcat Flash Chat: 43.5 (#89), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 42.0 (#126)

BenchmarkLongcat Flash ChatQwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Longer Query14251379

Writing & Preference Longcat Flash Chat leads

Longcat Flash Chat: 61.2 (#88), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 55.5 (#142)

BenchmarkLongcat Flash ChatQwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Text14271356
LMArena Creative Writing13881333
LMArena Multi-Turn14181365

Frequently asked questions

Is Longcat Flash Chat better than Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct?

Longcat Flash Chat is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.5 to 37.7 on the Noometry Index.

Is Longcat Flash Chat or Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct better for coding?

Longcat Flash Chat scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.9 versus 36.2 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Longcat Flash Chat and Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Longcat Flash Chat has 19 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct has 25.

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