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LongCat-Flash-Chat vs Qwen3.8 Max

Compare LongCat-Flash-Chat from Meituan and Qwen3.8 Max from Qwen on key metrics including benchmarks, price, context length, and other model features. Access both models and hundreds of others through the AIHubMix API.

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LongCat-Flash-Chat
Meituan · → text

Meituan has officially released and open-sourced LongCat-Flash-Chat, which utilizes an innovative Mixture of Experts (MoE) and "zero-computation expert" mechanism to achieve a total of 560B parameters, while only activating around 27B parameters per token as needed. At the same time, end-to-end optimization for agents (including a self-built evaluation set and multi-agent trajectory data) significantly enhances its performance in tool usage and complex task orchestration.

Input$0.14 /M
Output$0.7 /M
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Qwen3.8 Max
Qwen · text, image, video → text

Qwen3.8-Max is Alibaba Cloud Tongyi Qianwen's next-generation flagship large language model, featuring a mixture-of-experts (MoE) architecture with 2.4 trillion parameters. It achieves another breakthrough in encoding depth, enabling it to handle more complex engineering-grade projects and long-term autonomous development; collaborative agent capabilities are significantly enhanced, performing more confidently in multi-tool orchestration and end-to-end delivery; visual understanding is comprehensively improved, with more sensitive and accurate chart reasoning, document parsing, and multimodal perception. Continuing the 1-million-context window, reasoning modes, and a complete tool ecosystem, it continues to evolve at a higher level of intelligence.

Input$1.69 /M
Output$5.07 /M
Cache read$0.169 /M

Pricing & Specifications

Prices are per million tokens. Time to First Token and throughput are rolling averages measured on AIHubMix.

LongCat-Flash-Chat
Qwen3.8 Max
Input /M
$0.14
$1.69
Output /M
$0.7
$5.07
Cache read /M
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$0.169
Context length
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1,000,000
Max output
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131,072
Time to First Token
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12.5 s
Throughput
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28.4 tok/s
Modalities
textimagevideo
Supported Parameters
toolsfunction callingstructured outputsweblong contextthinking
API Formats
Released
November 5, 2025
August 3, 2026

Promotional prices show the discounted rate; see each model page for promotion windows.

Activity Past 30 Days

Daily traffic served through AIHubMix — how demand for each model is trending.

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Requests / day

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Performance Past 3 Days

Measured on real AIHubMix traffic, hourly buckets. Gaps mean no traffic in that hour.

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Throughput (tok/s)

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LMArena Benchmarks

LMArena ratings by capability (Bradley-Terry, commonly called Elo). Higher is better.

Text
LongCat-Flash-Chatqwen3.8-max
1380142014601500
Overall
14011482

Source: LMArena (arena.ai) leaderboard, imported by AIHubMix. Models without published ratings are omitted per chart.

Cost calculator

Estimate your monthly bill for the same workload on each model.

LongCat-Flash-Chat
$18.90 /mo
Qwen3.8 Max
$177 /mo

Monthly = daily × 30. Discounted rates applied where a promotion is active.

FAQ

Which is cheaper: LongCat-Flash-Chat, Qwen3.8 Max?

LongCat-Flash-Chat: $0.7/M output tokens; Qwen3.8 Max: $5.07/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.

Can I call LongCat-Flash-Chat and Qwen3.8 Max with the same API key?

Yes. AIHubMix serves every model on this page behind one OpenAI-compatible endpoint, so switching between them is a one-line change to the model field — no second account, key or SDK.

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