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LongCat-2.5 vs QwQ-32B

LongCat-2.5 leads the LLM Stats Score 50.0 to 14.2.

Meituan · Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team · Updated for 2026

Which is better?

LongCat-2.5 leads the overall LLM Stats Score 50.0 to 14.2, ranking #20 overall.

Based on current LLM Stats indexes, shared benchmarks, pricing, and model metadata for 2026.

Choose LongCat-2.5

  • overall performance matters — it scores 50.0 and ranks #20 on LLM Stats
  • your work emphasizes reasoning and coding — it leads those capability indexes
  • you want the most recent training data — it shipped Nov 2026

Choose QwQ-32B

  • you need open weights you can self-host or fine-tune

At a glance

The differences that matter most.

LongCat-2.5
Meituan
QwQ-32B
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Core performance indexes
LLM Stats Score
50.0
#20
14.2
#273
Reasoning
48.3
#21
15.1
#262
Coding
38.6
#27
10.2
#195
Cost, coverage & limits
Benchmark wins
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Input price
$0.30 / M
— / M
Output price
$1.20 / M
— / M
Context window
1,048,576
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Capability indexes

Additional strengths measured across groups of related public benchmarks

1 shared
Index
LongCat-2.5
QwQ-32B
Math
37.2#37
18.1#200
Conservative TrueSkill rating · higher is betterHow scores work

Individual benchmarks

23 reported for LongCat-2.5 · 7 for QwQ-32B

No common benchmarks found

LongCat-2.5 and QwQ-32Bdon't have any common benchmark datasets to compare. They may have been evaluated on different testing suites.

Human preference

Blind head-to-head votes and playground preference scores

Model Size

Parameter count comparison

1567.5B diff

LongCat-2.5 has 1567.5B more parameters than QwQ-32B, making it 4823.1% larger.

Meituan
LongCat-2.5
1.6Tparameters
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
QwQ-32B
32.5Bparameters
1600.0B
LongCat-2.5
32.5B
QwQ-32B

Context Window

Maximum input and output token capacity

Only LongCat-2.5 specifies input context (1,048,576 tokens). Only LongCat-2.5 specifies output context (131,072 tokens).

Meituan
LongCat-2.5
Input1,048,576 tokens
Output131,072 tokens
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
QwQ-32B
Input- tokens
Output- tokens
Wed Nov 04 2026 • llm-stats.com

Input capabilities

Documented input modalities across available providers

LongCat-2.5 supports multimodal inputs, whereas QwQ-32B does not.

LongCat-2.5 can handle both text and other forms of data like images, making it suitable for multimodal applications.

LongCat-2.5

Text
Images
Audio
Video

QwQ-32B

Text
Images
Audio
Video

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

LongCat-2.5 was released on 2026-11-01, while QwQ-32B was released on 2025-03-05.

LongCat-2.5 is 20 months newer than QwQ-32B.

LongCat-2.5

Nov 1, 2026

3 days ago

1.7yr newer
QwQ-32B

Mar 5, 2025

1.7 years ago

Knowledge Cutoff

When training data ends

QwQ-32B has a documented knowledge cutoff of 2024-11-28, while LongCat-2.5's cutoff date is not specified.

We can confirm QwQ-32B's training data extends to 2024-11-28, but cannot make a direct comparison without LongCat-2.5's cutoff date.

LongCat-2.5

—

QwQ-32B

Nov 2024

Outputs Comparison

Notice missing or incorrect data?

Judge for yourself.

Run your own prompts against LongCat-2.5 and QwQ-32B side-by-side, then vote on the output you prefer.

LongCat-2.5
✓ Preferred
QwQ-32B
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FAQ

Common questions about LongCat-2.5 vs QwQ-32B.

Which is better, LongCat-2.5 or QwQ-32B?

LongCat-2.5 leads the LLM Stats Score 50.0 to 14.2. LongCat-2.5 is made by Meituan and QwQ-32B is made by Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team. The best choice depends on your use case — compare their capability indexes, individual benchmarks, pricing, and limits above.

How does LongCat-2.5 compare to QwQ-32B in benchmarks?

LongCat-2.5 scores MathVision: 96.5%, BrowseComp: 91.9%, CharXiv-R: 90.2%, Terminal-Bench 2.1: 88.4%, Video-MME: 85.2%. QwQ-32B scores MATH-500: 90.6%, IFEval: 83.9%, AIME 2024: 79.5%, LiveBench: 73.1%, BFCL: 66.4%.

What are the context window sizes for LongCat-2.5 and QwQ-32B?

LongCat-2.5 supports 1.0M tokens and QwQ-32B supports an unknown number of tokens. A larger context window lets you process longer documents, conversations, or codebases in a single request.

What are the main differences between LongCat-2.5 and QwQ-32B?

Key differences include LLM Stats Score (50.0 vs 14.2), multimodal support (yes vs no), licensing (Unknown vs Apache 2.0). See the full comparison above for benchmark-by-benchmark results.

Who makes LongCat-2.5 and QwQ-32B?

LongCat-2.5 is developed by Meituan and QwQ-32B is developed by Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team.

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