Model comparison
Longcat Flash Chat vs o3-mini
Longcat Flash Chat is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.5 to 36.7 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Longcat Flash Chat scores higher in 7 categories and o3-mini in 1 category; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Longcat Flash Chat leads 61.2 to 50.4.
- Longcat Flash Chat has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Longcat Flash Chat | o3-mini | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meituan | OpenAI |
| Noometry Index | 41.5 | 36.7 |
| Released | — | 2024-12-20 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | 200K |
| Max output | — | 100K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $1.10 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $4.40 |
| Results tracked | 19 | 51 |
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Category by category
Coding Longcat Flash Chat leads
Longcat Flash Chat: 42.9 (#85), o3-mini: 41.4 (#116)
| Benchmark | Longcat Flash Chat | o3-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1471 | 1378 |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 60.4% |
| SciCode | — | 39.8% |
| GSO | — | 1.3% |
| WeirdML | — | 43.7% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 82.7% |
| CadEval | — | 54% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Longcat Flash Chat: —, o3-mini: 29.3 (#79)
| Benchmark | Longcat Flash Chat | o3-mini |
|---|---|---|
| Cybench | — | 22.5% |
Reasoning Longcat Flash Chat leads
Longcat Flash Chat: 18.3 (#267), o3-mini: 16.3 (#295)
| Benchmark | Longcat Flash Chat | o3-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1440 | 1366 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 3% |
| SimpleBench | — | 22.8% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 43.9% | — |
| NYT Connections (extended) | 17.7% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 34.5% |
| CritPt | — | 0.3% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 17% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 89.6% |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 7% |
| DTBench | — | 68.8% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 70.6% |
| LMCA | — | 19% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 140.35 |
| ForecastBench | — | 59.6 |
| LiveBench | — | 75.9% |
Math Longcat Flash Chat leads
Longcat Flash Chat: 36.6 (#107), o3-mini: 27.6 (#236)
| Benchmark | Longcat Flash Chat | o3-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1441 | 1396 |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 18.6% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | — | 0% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 76.9% |
| LiveBench Math | — | 77.3% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 96.5% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 12.4% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | — | 4.2% |
Knowledge Longcat Flash Chat leads
Longcat Flash Chat: 40.0 (#111), o3-mini: 38.3 (#135)
| Benchmark | Longcat Flash Chat | o3-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1454 | 1364 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 77% |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 15.3% |
| Confabulations | — | 17.9% |
Multilingual Longcat Flash Chat leads
Longcat Flash Chat: 52.1 (#95), o3-mini: 45.9 (#159)
| Benchmark | Longcat Flash Chat | o3-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1404 | 1319 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1465 | 1379 |
| LMArena French | 1457 | 1333 |
| LMArena German | 1409 | 1303 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1373 | 1286 |
| LMArena Korean | 1372 | 1314 |
| LMArena Russian | 1396 | 1304 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1445 | 1321 |
Instruction Following Too close to call
Longcat Flash Chat: 74.6 (#92), o3-mini: 75.3 (#67)
| Benchmark | Longcat Flash Chat | o3-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1411 | 1338 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 84.4% |
Long Context Longcat Flash Chat leads
Longcat Flash Chat: 43.5 (#89), o3-mini: 33.8 (#251)
| Benchmark | Longcat Flash Chat | o3-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1425 | 1343 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 50% |
Writing & Preference Longcat Flash Chat leads
Longcat Flash Chat: 61.2 (#88), o3-mini: 50.4 (#177)
| Benchmark | Longcat Flash Chat | o3-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1427 | 1337 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1388 | 1286 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1418 | 1320 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 61.7% |
| LiveBench Language | — | 50.7% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Longcat Flash Chat better than o3-mini?
Longcat Flash Chat is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.5 to 36.7 on the Noometry Index.
Is Longcat Flash Chat or o3-mini better for coding?
Longcat Flash Chat scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.9 versus 41.4 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Longcat Flash Chat and o3-mini share?
17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Longcat Flash Chat has 19 scored results on Noometry and o3-mini has 51.