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LongCat 2.0vsNVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B NVFP4

LongCat 2.0 leads 3 of 3 shared benchmarks. Both offer a 1M-token context window.

Benchmarks from cited public sources; pricing from official pages; status from official provider feeds.

Shared benchmarks
3 – 0
LongCat 2.0 leads
Cheaper per token
list price, input + output
Larger context
Tie
both 1M tokens
Provider uptime (30d)
— · 100%
Meituan LongCat · NVIDIA
LongCat 2.0
Meituan LongCat · released 2026-06-30
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Context
1M
Max out
Input /1M
Output /1M
Cached /1M
Scores
10 · 4 core
NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B NVFP4
NVIDIA · released 2026-08-11
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Context
1M
Max out
Input /1M
Output /1M
Cached /1M
Scores
7 · 5 core
Quality

Benchmark matrix

BenchmarkLongCat 2.0NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B NVFP4ΔEdge
Reported by both · 3
GPQA Diamond88.9% 75.57% +13.3 ptLongCat 2.0
BrowseComp79.9% 36.81% +43.1 ptLongCat 2.0
Terminal-Bench 2.170.8% 23.46% +47.3 ptLongCat 2.0
Only LongCat 2.0 reports · 7
FORTE73.2% not reported
IFEval90% not reported
IMO-AnswerBench81.8% not reported
RWSearch78.8% not reported
SWE-bench Multilingual77.3% not reported
SWE-bench Pro59.5% not reported
Writing Bench83.8% not reported
Only NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B NVFP4 reports · 4
SWE-bench Verifiednot reported52.8%
MMLU-Pronot reported81.62%
Humanity's Last Exam (no tools)not reported10.47%
LMArena Elonot reported1330.7
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 LongCat 2.0 minus NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B NVFP4 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

SpecLongCat 2.0NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B NVFP4Edge
Context window1M tokens1M tokensTie
Max output
Input price / 1M
Output price / 1M
Cached input / 1M
Input + output / 1M
Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded.
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Released2026-06-302026-08-11
Cited benchmark scores107
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