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Claude Sonnet 4.6vsLongCat Flash Chat

Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads 3 of 3 shared benchmarks. Claude Sonnet 4.6 has the larger context window (1M tokens).

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Shared benchmarks
3 – 0
Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads
Cheaper per token
list price, input + output
Larger context
Claude Sonnet 4.6
1M tokens
Provider uptime (30d)
100% · —
Anthropic · Meituan LongCat
Claude Sonnet 4.6
Anthropic · released 2026-02-17
textvision
Context
1M
Max out
128K
Input /1M
$3
Output /1M
$15
Cached /1M
$0.3
Scores
19 · 8 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 Sonnet 4.6LongCat Flash ChatΔEdge
Reported by both · 3
SWE-bench Verified79.6% 60.4% +19.2 ptClaude Sonnet 4.6
GPQA Diamond89.9% 73.23% +16.7 ptClaude Sonnet 4.6
LMArena Elo1458.3 1422.9 +35.4Claude Sonnet 4.6
Only Claude Sonnet 4.6 reports · 15
Humanity's Last Exam (no tools)33.2% not reported
ARC-AGI-2 (Verified)58.3% not reported
GDPval-AA1633 not reported
Humanity's Last Exam (with tools)49% not reported
MCP Atlas61.3% not reported
MMMLU89.3% not reported
MMMU-Pro (no tools)74.5% not reported
MMMU-Pro (with tools)75.6% not reported
OSWorld-Verified72.5% not reported
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run)85.8% epochnot reported
SimpleQA Verified35.5% epochnot reported
SWE-bench Verified (Epoch AI run)75.2% epochnot reported
Tau2-bench Retail91.7% not reported
Tau2-bench Telecom97.9% not reported
Terminal-Bench 2.059.1% not reported
Only LongCat Flash Chat reports · 28
MMLUnot reported89.71%
MMLU-Pronot reported82.68%
AIME 2025not reported61.25%
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 Sonnet 4.6 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 Sonnet 4.6LongCat Flash ChatEdge
Context window1M tokens128K tokensClaude Sonnet 4.6
Max output128K 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 Sonnet 4.6
Released2026-02-172025-09-01
Cited benchmark scores1931
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