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LongCat Flash ChatvsMAI-Thinking-1
MAI-Thinking-1 leads 4 of 4 shared benchmarks. MAI-Thinking-1 has the larger context window (256K tokens).
Benchmarks from cited public sources; pricing from official pages; status from official provider feeds.
Shared benchmarks
0 – 4
MAI-Thinking-1 leads
Cheaper per token
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list price, input + output
Larger context
MAI-Thinking-1
256K tokens
Provider uptime (30d)
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Meituan LongCat · Microsoft
LongCat Flash Chat
Meituan LongCat · released 2025-09-01
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- Context
- 128K
- Max out
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- Input /1M
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- Output /1M
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- Cached /1M
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- Scores
- 31 · 9 core
MAI-Thinking-1
Microsoft · released 2026-08-12
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- Context
- 256K
- Max out
- 64K
- Input /1M
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- Output /1M
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- Cached /1M
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- Scores
- 15 · 7 core
Quality
Benchmark matrix
4 shared · 27 only LongCat Flash Chat · 11 only MAI-Thinking-1| Benchmark | LongCat Flash Chat | MAI-Thinking-1 | Δ | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reported by both · 4 | ||||
| SWE-bench Verified | 60.4% ↗ | 73.5% ↗ | -13.1 pt | MAI-Thinking-1 |
| GPQA Diamond | 73.23% ↗ | 84.2% ↗ | -11 pt | MAI-Thinking-1 |
| MMLU-Pro | 82.68% ↗ | 85% ↗ | -2.3 pt | MAI-Thinking-1 |
| AIME 2025 | 61.25% ↗ | 97% ↗ | -35.7 pt | MAI-Thinking-1 |
| Only LongCat Flash Chat reports · 27 | ||||
| MMLU | 89.71% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| LMArena Elo | 1422.9 ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| AceBench | 76.1% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| AIME 2024 | 70.42% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| ArenaHard-V2 | 86.5% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| BeyondAIME | 43% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| C-Eval | 90.44% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| CMMLU | 84.34% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| COLLIE | 57.1% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| DROP | 79.06% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| GraphWalks-128k | 51.05% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| HumanEval+ | 88.41% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| IFEval | 89.65% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| LiveCodeBench | 48.02% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| MATH500 | 96.4% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| MBPP+ | 79.63% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Meeseeks-zh | 43.03% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Safety: Criminal | 91.24% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Safety: Harmful | 83.98% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Safety: Misinformation | 81.72% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Safety: Privacy | 93.98% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Tau2-Bench (airline) | 58% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Tau2-Bench (retail) | 71.27% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Tau2-Bench (telecom) | 73.68% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| TerminalBench | 39.51% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| VitaBench | 24.3% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| ZebraLogic | 89.3% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Only MAI-Thinking-1 reports · 11 | ||||
| AIME 2026 | not reported | 94.5% ↗ | — | — |
| AdvancedIF | not reported | 85% ↗ | — | — |
| BFCL v3 | not reported | 72% ↗ | — | — |
| GraphWalks (<=128K) | not reported | 90% ↗ | — | — |
| HMMT February 2026 | not reported | 84.9% ↗ | — | — |
| IFBench | not reported | 69% ↗ | — | — |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | not reported | 87.7% ↗ | — | — |
| MultiChallenge | not reported | 53% ↗ | — | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | not reported | 31% ↗ | — | — |
| SWE-bench Pro | not reported | 52.8% ↗ | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | not reported | 46% ↗ | — | — |
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 Flash Chat minus MAI-Thinking-1 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 | LongCat Flash Chat | MAI-Thinking-1 | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window | 128K tokens | 256K tokens | MAI-Thinking-1 |
| Max output | — | 64K 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 | 2025-09-01 | 2026-08-12 | — |
| Cited benchmark scores | 31 | 15 | — |
Reliability
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