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DeepSeek V3vsLongCat Flash Chat
LongCat Flash Chat leads 6 of 6 shared benchmarks. Both offer a 128K-token context window.
Benchmarks from cited public sources; pricing from official pages; status from official provider feeds.
Shared benchmarks
0 – 6
LongCat Flash Chat leads
Cheaper per token
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list price, input + output
Larger context
Tie
both 128K tokens
Provider uptime (30d)
100% · —
DeepSeek · Meituan LongCat
DeepSeek V3
DeepSeek · released 2024-12-26
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- Context
- 128K
- Max out
- 8K
- Input /1M
- —
- Output /1M
- —
- Cached /1M
- —
- Scores
- 8 · 7 core
LongCat Flash Chat
Meituan LongCat · released 2025-09-01
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- Context
- 128K
- Max out
- —
- Input /1M
- —
- Output /1M
- —
- Cached /1M
- —
- Scores
- 31 · 9 core
Quality
Benchmark matrix
6 shared · 1 only DeepSeek V3 · 25 only LongCat Flash Chat| Benchmark | DeepSeek V3 | LongCat Flash Chat | Δ | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reported by both · 6 | ||||
| SWE-bench Verified | 42% ↗ | 60.4% ↗ | -18.4 pt | LongCat Flash Chat |
| GPQA Diamond | 59.1% ↗ | 73.23% ↗ | -14.1 pt | LongCat Flash Chat |
| MMLU | 88.5% ↗ | 89.71% ↗ | -1.2 pt | LongCat Flash Chat |
| MMLU-Pro | 75.9% ↗ | 82.68% ↗ | -6.8 pt | LongCat Flash Chat |
| AIME 2025 | 25% ↗matharena | 61.25% ↗ | -36.2 pt | LongCat Flash Chat |
| LMArena Elo | 1332.4 ↗ | 1422.9 ↗ | -90.5 | LongCat Flash Chat |
| Only DeepSeek V3 reports · 1 | ||||
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run) | 15.8% ↗epoch | not reported | — | — |
| Only LongCat Flash Chat reports · 25 | ||||
| AceBench | not reported | 76.1% ↗ | — | — |
| AIME 2024 | not reported | 70.42% ↗ | — | — |
| ArenaHard-V2 | not reported | 86.5% ↗ | — | — |
| BeyondAIME | not reported | 43% ↗ | — | — |
| C-Eval | not reported | 90.44% ↗ | — | — |
| CMMLU | not reported | 84.34% ↗ | — | — |
| COLLIE | not reported | 57.1% ↗ | — | — |
| DROP | not reported | 79.06% ↗ | — | — |
| GraphWalks-128k | not reported | 51.05% ↗ | — | — |
| HumanEval+ | not reported | 88.41% ↗ | — | — |
| IFEval | not reported | 89.65% ↗ | — | — |
| LiveCodeBench | not reported | 48.02% ↗ | — | — |
| MATH500 | not reported | 96.4% ↗ | — | — |
| MBPP+ | not reported | 79.63% ↗ | — | — |
| Meeseeks-zh | not reported | 43.03% ↗ | — | — |
| Safety: Criminal | not reported | 91.24% ↗ | — | — |
| Safety: Harmful | not reported | 83.98% ↗ | — | — |
| Safety: Misinformation | not reported | 81.72% ↗ | — | — |
| Safety: Privacy | not reported | 93.98% ↗ | — | — |
| Tau2-Bench (airline) | not reported | 58% ↗ | — | — |
| Tau2-Bench (retail) | not reported | 71.27% ↗ | — | — |
| Tau2-Bench (telecom) | not reported | 73.68% ↗ | — | — |
| TerminalBench | not reported | 39.51% ↗ | — | — |
| VitaBench | not reported | 24.3% ↗ | — | — |
| ZebraLogic | not reported | 89.3% ↗ | — | — |
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 DeepSeek V3 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
Official pricing pages and model cards| Spec | DeepSeek V3 | LongCat Flash Chat | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window | 128K tokens | 128K tokens | Tie |
| Max output | 8K tokens | — | — |
| Input price / 1M | — | — | — |
| Output price / 1M | — | — | — |
| Cached input / 1M | — | — | — |
| Input + output / 1M Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded. | — | — | — |
| Modalities | text | text | Tie |
| Released | 2024-12-26 | 2025-09-01 | — |
| Cited benchmark scores | 8 | 31 | — |
Reliability
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