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Claude Sonnet 5vsLongCat Flash Chat

Claude Sonnet 5 leads 2 of 2 shared benchmarks. Claude Sonnet 5 has the larger context window (1M tokens).

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Shared benchmarks
2 – 0
Claude Sonnet 5 leads
Cheaper per token
list price, input + output
Larger context
Claude Sonnet 5
1M tokens
Provider uptime (30d)
100% · —
Anthropic · Meituan LongCat
Claude Sonnet 5
Anthropic · released 2026-06-30
textvision
Context
1M
Max out
128K
Input /1M
$2
Output /1M
$10
Cached /1M
$0.2
Scores
8 · 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 5LongCat Flash ChatΔEdge
Reported by both · 2
SWE-bench Verified85.2% 60.4% +24.8 ptClaude Sonnet 5
GPQA Diamond90.5% epoch73.23% +17.3 ptClaude Sonnet 5
Only Claude Sonnet 5 reports · 6
Humanity's Last Exam (no tools)43.2% not reported
FrontierMath Tier 4 v2 (Epoch AI run)29.3% epochnot reported
FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 v2 (Epoch AI run)65.6% epochnot reported
Humanity's Last Exam (with tools)57.4% not reported
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run)94.7% epochnot reported
SimpleQA Verified33.7% epochnot reported
Only LongCat Flash Chat reports · 29
MMLUnot reported89.71%
MMLU-Pronot reported82.68%
AIME 2025not reported61.25%
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 Sonnet 5 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 5LongCat Flash ChatEdge
Context window1M tokens128K tokensClaude Sonnet 5
Max output128K tokens
Input price / 1M$2
Output price / 1M$10
Cached input / 1M$0.2
Input + output / 1M
Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded.
$12
Modalitiestext · visiontextClaude Sonnet 5
Released2026-06-302025-09-01
Cited benchmark scores831
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