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Claude 3.5 SonnetvsLongCat Flash Chat

LongCat Flash Chat leads 3 of 3 shared benchmarks. Claude 3.5 Sonnet has the larger context window (200K tokens).

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Shared benchmarks
0 – 3
LongCat Flash Chat leads
Cheaper per token
list price, input + output
Larger context
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
200K tokens
Provider uptime (30d)
100% · —
Anthropic · Meituan LongCat
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Anthropic · released 2024-10-22
textvision
Context
200K
Max out
8K
Input /1M
$3
Output /1M
$15
Cached /1M
$0.3
Scores
4 · 4 core
LongCat Flash Chat
Meituan LongCat · released 2025-09-01
text
Context
128K
Max out
Input /1M
Output /1M
Cached /1M
Scores
31 · 9 core
Quality

Benchmark matrix

BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetLongCat Flash ChatΔEdge
Reported by both · 3
SWE-bench Verified49% 60.4% -11.4 ptLongCat Flash Chat
GPQA Diamond55.3% epoch73.23% -17.9 ptLongCat Flash Chat
AIME 20253.3% matharena61.25% -57.9 ptLongCat Flash Chat
Only Claude 3.5 Sonnet reports · 1
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run)8.5% epochnot reported
Only LongCat Flash Chat reports · 28
MMLUnot reported89.71%
MMLU-Pronot reported82.68%
LMArena Elonot reported1422.9
AceBenchnot reported76.1%
AIME 2024not reported70.42%
ArenaHard-V2not reported86.5%
BeyondAIMEnot reported43%
C-Evalnot reported90.44%
CMMLUnot reported84.34%
COLLIEnot reported57.1%
DROPnot reported79.06%
GraphWalks-128knot reported51.05%
HumanEval+not reported88.41%
IFEvalnot reported89.65%
LiveCodeBenchnot reported48.02%
MATH500not reported96.4%
MBPP+not reported79.63%
Meeseeks-zhnot reported43.03%
Safety: Criminalnot reported91.24%
Safety: Harmfulnot reported83.98%
Safety: Misinformationnot reported81.72%
Safety: Privacynot reported93.98%
Tau2-Bench (airline)not reported58%
Tau2-Bench (retail)not reported71.27%
Tau2-Bench (telecom)not reported73.68%
TerminalBenchnot reported39.51%
VitaBenchnot reported24.3%
ZebraLogicnot reported89.3%
Scores tagged "epoch" or "matharena" are independent runs, used only where the lab has not published its own; ⚠ marks rows MathArena flags as released after the competition. Higher is better on every row. Δ is Claude 3.5 Sonnet minus LongCat Flash Chat in the benchmark's own unit. "Not reported" means the lab has not published that figure; it is not a zero. ↗ opens the source.
Specs & pricing

Side by side

SpecClaude 3.5 SonnetLongCat Flash ChatEdge
Context window200K tokens128K tokensClaude 3.5 Sonnet
Max output8K tokens
Input price / 1M$3
Output price / 1M$15
Cached input / 1M$0.3
Input + output / 1M
Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded.
$18
Modalitiestext · visiontextClaude 3.5 Sonnet
Released2024-10-222025-09-01
Cited benchmark scores431
Reliability

Provider status

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