Meituan: LongCat Flash Chat
Analysis Summary
Meituan LongCat Flash Chat is a text model with a 131K context window and built-in support for tool use and function calling. No benchmark results are provided for reasoning, coding, instruction following, or agentic reliability, so its quality and consistency cannot be established from the available evidence.
The combination of low pricing and API-oriented capabilities could suit lightweight customer-service routing, extraction, templated content, and supervised internal automations. Its text-only modality excludes visual workflows, and the lack of measured performance makes it difficult to assign demanding tasks such as autonomous research, software engineering, or final editorial approval.
Treat it as an experimental volume option rather than a default client model. Pilot it on low-risk tasks with human review, and use a benchmarked alternative when reliability, complex reasoning, or brand-sensitive writing is required.
Assessed August 9, 2026
Editorial notes
LongCat Flash Chat offers a 131K context window, tool use, function calling, and low pricing; the absence of benchmark results makes it a cautious choice for supervised automation rather than critical client work.
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DFO Verdict
LongCat Flash Chat offers a 131K context window, tool use, function calling, and low pricing; the absence of benchmark results makes it a cautious choice for supervised automation rather than critical client work.
How Meituan: LongCat Flash Chat compares
Its 131K-token context window is larger than 50% of the models we list. At $0.20 per million input tokens it is cheaper than 57% of comparable models.
Dark bar = input · light bar = output, scaled to the priciest peer.
1M tokens ≈ 8 full-length novels or ~2,500 pages of business documents in a single request.
Strongest on value. The pulled-in technical corner is the trade-off, and if the shape matters more than the price, this is your model.
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| Token Type | Cost per 1M tokens | Cost per 1K tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $0.20 | $0.000200 |
| Output | $0.80 | $0.000800 |
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A website chatbot handling around 100 customer conversations a day, a few short messages each.
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Talk to our teamAbout Meituan: LongCat Flash Chat
LongCat-Flash-Chat is a large-scale Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model with 560B total parameters, of which 18.6B–31.3B (≈27B on average) are dynamically activated per input. It introduces a shortcut-connected MoE design to reduce..
Frequently asked questions about Meituan: LongCat Flash Chat
How much does Meituan: LongCat Flash Chat cost?
Meituan: LongCat Flash Chat costs $0.20 per million input tokens and $0.80 per million output tokens.
What is the context window of Meituan: LongCat Flash Chat?
Meituan: LongCat Flash Chat has a context window of 131,072 tokens (131K).
What can Meituan: LongCat Flash Chat do?
Meituan: LongCat Flash Chat supports tool use and function calling.
Who created Meituan: LongCat Flash Chat?
Meituan: LongCat Flash Chat is developed by Meituan and was released on September 9, 2025.