Model comparison

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite vs Longcat Flash Chat

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite and Longcat Flash Chat score almost the same on the Noometry Index (41.8 vs 41.5), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite Google

41.8

Rank #113 Confirmed

Longcat Flash Chat Meituan

41.5

Rank #121 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite scores higher in 6 categories and Longcat Flash Chat in 2 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Longcat Flash Chat leads 36.6 to 25.7.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is NYT Connections (extended): 60.4% for Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite and 17.7% for Longcat Flash Chat.
  • Longcat Flash Chat has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite and Longcat Flash Chat specifications
Gemini 3.5 Flash LiteLongcat Flash Chat
ProviderGoogleMeituan
Noometry Index41.841.5
Released2026-07-21—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M—
Max output66K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.30—
Output $ / M tokens$2.50—
Results tracked3819

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Category by category

Coding Too close to call

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 42.1 (#96), Longcat Flash Chat: 42.9 (#85)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteLongcat Flash Chat
LMArena Coding14551471
LMArena WebDev1440—
SciCode41.3%—
WeirdML39%—
ALE-Bench765.27—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 28.6 (#82), Longcat Flash Chat: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteLongcat Flash Chat
GDP.pdf10%—

Reasoning Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 27.8 (#95), Longcat Flash Chat: 18.3 (#267)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteLongcat Flash Chat
NYT Connections (extended)60.4%17.7%
LMArena Hard Prompts14411440
ARC-AGI-210.3%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark—43.9%
ARC-AGI-153.5%—
CritPt0%—
Chess Puzzles22%—
Mystery Game Puzzles19%—
DTBench83.5%—
LMCA37.6%—
Epoch Capabilities Index145.12—

Math Longcat Flash Chat leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 25.7 (#245), Longcat Flash Chat: 36.6 (#107)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteLongcat Flash Chat
LMArena Math14311441
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)26%—
FrontierMath Tier 40%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202571.1%—
ProofBench13%—

Knowledge Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 50.0 (#66), Longcat Flash Chat: 40.0 (#111)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteLongcat Flash Chat
LMArena Expert14301454
GPQA Diamond83.3%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 40.3 (#38), Longcat Flash Chat: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteLongcat Flash Chat
LMArena Vision1266—

Multilingual Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 53.8 (#59), Longcat Flash Chat: 52.1 (#95)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteLongcat Flash Chat
LMArena Non-English14281404
LMArena Chinese14671465
LMArena French14521457
LMArena German14541409
LMArena Japanese14281373
LMArena Korean14061372
LMArena Russian14431396
LMArena Spanish14401445

Instruction Following Too close to call

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 75.0 (#77), Longcat Flash Chat: 74.6 (#92)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteLongcat Flash Chat
LMArena Instruction Following14201411

Long Context Too close to call

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 43.8 (#80), Longcat Flash Chat: 43.5 (#89)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteLongcat Flash Chat
LMArena Longer Query14351425

Writing & Preference Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 64.4 (#55), Longcat Flash Chat: 61.2 (#88)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteLongcat Flash Chat
LMArena Text14361427
LMArena Creative Writing14191388
LMArena Multi-Turn14451418
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1559—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite better than Longcat Flash Chat?

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite and Longcat Flash Chat score almost the same on the Noometry Index (41.8 vs 41.5), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Is Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite or Longcat Flash Chat better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (42.1 vs 42.9); test both on your own repository before choosing.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite and Longcat Flash Chat share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite has 38 scored results on Noometry and Longcat Flash Chat has 19.

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