Model comparison
Longcat Flash Chat vs Qwen3 8B
Longcat Flash Chat is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.1 to 33.7 on the Noometry Index.
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Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- The widest gap is in coding, where Longcat Flash Chat leads 43.5 to 34.0.
Side by side
| Longcat Flash Chat | Qwen3 8B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meituan | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 42.1 | 33.7 |
| Released | — | 2025-04 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 131K |
| Max output | — | 8K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.18 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.70 |
| Results tracked | 19 | 11 |
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Category by category
Coding Longcat Flash Chat leads
Longcat Flash Chat: 43.5 (#87), Qwen3 8B: 34.0 (#248)
| Benchmark | Longcat Flash Chat | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | — | 22.6% |
| LMArena Coding | 1471 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Longcat Flash Chat: —, Qwen3 8B: 30.2 (#78)
| Benchmark | Longcat Flash Chat | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 42.6% |
Reasoning Longcat Flash Chat leads
Longcat Flash Chat: 19.0 (#272), Qwen3 8B: 16.6 (#303)
| Benchmark | Longcat Flash Chat | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 43.9% | — |
| NYT Connections (extended) | 17.7% | — |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 5% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1440 | — |
| DTBench | — | 59.7% |
| LMCA | — | 8.8% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 136.17 |
Math Longcat Flash Chat leads
Longcat Flash Chat: 39.4 (#107), Qwen3 8B: 34.9 (#191)
| Benchmark | Longcat Flash Chat | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 56.1% |
| LMArena Math | 1442 | — |
Knowledge Longcat Flash Chat leads
Longcat Flash Chat: 40.6 (#116), Qwen3 8B: 36.1 (#173)
| Benchmark | Longcat Flash Chat | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 56.8% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 4.8% |
| LMArena Expert | 1454 | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Longcat Flash Chat: 51.9 (#101), Qwen3 8B: —
| Benchmark | Longcat Flash Chat | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1404 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1465 | — |
| LMArena French | 1456 | — |
| LMArena German | 1408 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1373 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1371 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1395 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1445 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Longcat Flash Chat: 74.4 (#96), Qwen3 8B: —
| Benchmark | Longcat Flash Chat | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1411 | — |
Long Context Longcat Flash Chat leads
Longcat Flash Chat: 43.5 (#93), Qwen3 8B: 37.9 (#210)
| Benchmark | Longcat Flash Chat | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 62.1% |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1425 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Longcat Flash Chat: 61.0 (#91), Qwen3 8B: —
| Benchmark | Longcat Flash Chat | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1427 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1388 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1418 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Longcat Flash Chat better than Qwen3 8B?
Longcat Flash Chat is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.1 to 33.7 on the Noometry Index.
Is Longcat Flash Chat or Qwen3 8B better for coding?
Longcat Flash Chat scores higher on coding benchmarks: 43.5 versus 34.0 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Longcat Flash Chat and Qwen3 8B share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Longcat Flash Chat has 19 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 8B has 11.