Model comparison

Claude Opus 4 vs Longcat Flash Chat

Claude Opus 4 and Longcat Flash Chat score almost the same on the Noometry Index (43.1 vs 42.1), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4 Anthropic

43.1

Rank #100 Confirmed

Longcat Flash Chat Meituan

42.1

Rank #120 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4 scores higher in 6 categories and Longcat Flash Chat in 2 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Claude Opus 4 leads 27.3 to 19.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Kagi LLM Benchmark: 74.3% for Claude Opus 4 and 43.9% for Longcat Flash Chat.
  • Longcat Flash Chat has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4 and Longcat Flash Chat specifications
Claude Opus 4Longcat Flash Chat
ProviderAnthropicMeituan
Noometry Index43.142.1
Released2025-05-22—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window200K—
Max output32K—
Input $ / M tokens$15—
Output $ / M tokens$75—
Results tracked5619

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 47.2 (#62), Longcat Flash Chat: 43.5 (#87)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Longcat Flash Chat
LMArena Coding14421471
SWE-bench Verified70.7%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)67.6%—
Aider Polyglot72%—
GSO6.9%—
WeirdML43.7%—
AlgoTune1.33—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 4: 34.8 (#42), Longcat Flash Chat: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Longcat Flash Chat
Cybench38%—
DeepResearch Bench46.8%—
LMArena Search1127—
METR Time Horizons63.9%—

Reasoning Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 27.3 (#121), Longcat Flash Chat: 19.0 (#272)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Longcat Flash Chat
Kagi LLM Benchmark74.3%43.9%
LMArena Hard Prompts13991440
ARC-AGI-28.6%—
SimpleBench58.8%—
NYT Connections (extended)—17.7%
ARC-AGI-135.7%—
CritPt0.3%—
EnigmaEval5.6%—
DTBench81.6%—
LMCA37.4%—
Epoch Capabilities Index142.67—
ForecastBench61.1—

Math Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 42.0 (#86), Longcat Flash Chat: 39.4 (#107)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Longcat Flash Chat
LMArena Math13901442
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202564.4%—
Omni-MATH61.6%—
MATH Level 585%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)4.5%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%—

Knowledge Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 44.0 (#88), Longcat Flash Chat: 40.6 (#116)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Longcat Flash Chat
LMArena Expert13861454
GPQA Diamond76.3%—
Humanity's Last Exam10.7%—
MMLU-Pro87.5%—
Confabulations15.9%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate12%—
GPQA (HELM)70.8%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4: 31.5 (#106), Longcat Flash Chat: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Longcat Flash Chat
LMArena Vision1192—
GeoBench49%—
VPCT38%—

Multilingual Longcat Flash Chat leads

Claude Opus 4: 48.8 (#138), Longcat Flash Chat: 51.9 (#101)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Longcat Flash Chat
LMArena Non-English13621404
LMArena Chinese13861465
LMArena French13721456
LMArena German13911408
LMArena Japanese13311373
LMArena Korean13211371
LMArena Russian13921395
LMArena Spanish13891445

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 77.1 (#28), Longcat Flash Chat: 74.4 (#96)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Longcat Flash Chat
LMArena Instruction Following14061411
IFEval91.8%—

Long Context Longcat Flash Chat leads

Claude Opus 4: 39.6 (#172), Longcat Flash Chat: 43.5 (#93)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Longcat Flash Chat
LMArena Longer Query14221425
Fiction.LiveBench61.1%—

Writing & Preference Too close to call

Claude Opus 4: 61.2 (#89), Longcat Flash Chat: 61.0 (#91)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Longcat Flash Chat
LMArena Text13771427
LMArena Creative Writing13871388
LMArena Multi-Turn13961418
Short-Story Creative Writing83.6%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1580—
WildBench85.2%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4 better than Longcat Flash Chat?

Claude Opus 4 and Longcat Flash Chat score almost the same on the Noometry Index (43.1 vs 42.1), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Is Claude Opus 4 or Longcat Flash Chat better for coding?

Claude Opus 4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 47.2 versus 43.5 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4 and Longcat Flash Chat share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4 has 56 scored results on Noometry and Longcat Flash Chat has 19.

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