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LongCat Flash Chat vs Qwen3.5-35B-A3B

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Winner summary

LongCat Flash Chat wins 1 of 1 shared benchmarks. Leads in arena.

Category leads
arena·LongCat Flash Chat
Hype vs Reality
LongCat Flash Chat
#49 by perf·no signal
QUIET
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B
#114 by perf·#2 by attention
DESERVED
Best value
1.4x better value than Qwen3.5-35B-A3B
LongCat Flash Chat
119.6 pts/$
$0.50/M
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B
88.5 pts/$
$0.57/M
Vendor risk
meituan logo
meituan
private · undisclosed
Unknown
Alibaba Qwen logo
Alibaba (Qwen)
$293.0B·Tier 1
Low risk
Head to head
LongCat Flash ChatQwen3.5-35B-A3B
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall
LongCat Flash Chat leads by +7.3
LongCat Flash Chat
1401.1
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B
1393.8
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkLongCat Flash ChatQwen3.5-35B-A3B
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall
1401.11393.8
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
meituan logoLongCat Flash Chat$0.20$0.80131K tokens (~66 books)$3.50
Alibaba Qwen logoQwen3.5-35B-A3B$0.15$1.00262K tokens (~131 books)$3.63