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Longcat Flash Chat vs Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct

Longcat Flash Chat and Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (41.5 vs 42.5), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Longcat Flash Chat Meituan

41.5

Rank #121 Confirmed

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct Alibaba (Qwen)

42.5

Rank #100 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Longcat Flash Chat scores higher in 5 categories and Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct in 3 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads 30.1 to 18.3.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Kagi LLM Benchmark: 43.9% for Longcat Flash Chat and 66.7% for Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct.

Side by side

Longcat Flash ChatQwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
ProviderMeituanAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index41.542.5
Released—2025-09
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—33K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.50
Output $ / M tokens—$2
Results tracked1925

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Category by category

Coding Too close to call

Longcat Flash Chat: 42.9 (#85), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 41.9 (#101)

BenchmarkLongcat Flash ChatQwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
LMArena Coding14711441

Reasoning Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads

Longcat Flash Chat: 18.3 (#267), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 30.1 (#79)

BenchmarkLongcat Flash ChatQwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
Kagi LLM Benchmark43.9%66.7%
LMArena Hard Prompts14401428
NYT Connections (extended)17.7%—

Math Too close to call

Longcat Flash Chat: 36.6 (#107), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 36.3 (#118)

BenchmarkLongcat Flash ChatQwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
LMArena Math14411440
Omni-MATH—46.7%

Knowledge Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads

Longcat Flash Chat: 40.0 (#111), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 41.3 (#102)

BenchmarkLongcat Flash ChatQwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
LMArena Expert14541416
MMLU-Pro—78.6%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—9.3%
GPQA (HELM)—63%

Multilingual Too close to call

Longcat Flash Chat: 52.1 (#95), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 52.3 (#88)

BenchmarkLongcat Flash ChatQwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
LMArena Non-English14041407
LMArena Chinese14651461
LMArena French14571415
LMArena German14091416
LMArena Japanese13731398
LMArena Korean13721366
LMArena Russian13961403
LMArena Spanish14451436

Instruction Following Longcat Flash Chat leads

Longcat Flash Chat: 74.6 (#92), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 71.0 (#154)

BenchmarkLongcat Flash ChatQwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following14111388
IFEval—81%

Long Context Longcat Flash Chat leads

Longcat Flash Chat: 43.5 (#89), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 37.0 (#218)

BenchmarkLongcat Flash ChatQwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
LMArena Longer Query14251403
Fiction.LiveBench—55.6%

Writing & Preference Longcat Flash Chat leads

Longcat Flash Chat: 61.2 (#88), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 58.2 (#116)

BenchmarkLongcat Flash ChatQwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
LMArena Text14271417
LMArena Creative Writing13881333
LMArena Multi-Turn14181415
WildBench—80.7%

Frequently asked questions

Is Longcat Flash Chat better than Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct?

Longcat Flash Chat and Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (41.5 vs 42.5), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Is Longcat Flash Chat or Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (42.9 vs 41.9); test both on your own repository before choosing.

How many benchmarks do Longcat Flash Chat and Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Longcat Flash Chat has 19 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct has 25.

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