LongCat-Flash-Chat vs Qwen3.5-2B Comparison

Comparing LongCat-Flash-Chat and Qwen3.5-2B across benchmarks, pricing, and capabilities.

Performance Benchmarks

Comparative analysis across standard metrics

3 benchmarks

LongCat-Flash-Chat outperforms in 3 benchmarks (GPQA, IFEval, MMLU-Pro), while Qwen3.5-2B is better at 0 benchmarks.

LongCat-Flash-Chat significantly outperforms across most benchmarks.

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Arena Performance

Human preference votes

Pricing Analysis

Price comparison per million tokens

Cost data unavailable.

Lowest available price from all providers
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Meituan
LongCat-Flash-Chat
Input tokens$0.30
Output tokens$1.20
Best providerMeituan
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen3.5-2B
Input tokens$0.00
Output tokens$0.00
Best providerUnknown Organization
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Model Size

Parameter count comparison

558.0B diff

LongCat-Flash-Chat has 558.0B more parameters than Qwen3.5-2B, making it 27900.0% larger.

Meituan
LongCat-Flash-Chat
560.0Bparameters
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen3.5-2B
2.0Bparameters
560.0B
LongCat-Flash-Chat
2.0B
Qwen3.5-2B

Context Window

Maximum input and output token capacity

Only LongCat-Flash-Chat specifies input context (128,000 tokens). Only LongCat-Flash-Chat specifies output context (128,000 tokens).

Meituan
LongCat-Flash-Chat
Input128,000 tokens
Output128,000 tokens
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen3.5-2B
Input- tokens
Output- tokens
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Input Capabilities

Supported data types and modalities

Qwen3.5-2B supports multimodal inputs, whereas LongCat-Flash-Chat does not.

Qwen3.5-2B can handle both text and other forms of data like images, making it suitable for multimodal applications.

LongCat-Flash-Chat

Text
Images
Audio
Video

Qwen3.5-2B

Text
Images
Audio
Video

License

Usage and distribution terms

LongCat-Flash-Chat is licensed under MIT, while Qwen3.5-2B uses Apache 2.0.

License differences may affect how you can use these models in commercial or open-source projects.

LongCat-Flash-Chat

MIT

Open weights

Qwen3.5-2B

Apache 2.0

Open weights

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

LongCat-Flash-Chat was released on 2025-08-29, while Qwen3.5-2B was released on 2026-03-02.

Qwen3.5-2B is 6 months newer than LongCat-Flash-Chat.

LongCat-Flash-Chat

Aug 29, 2025

6 months ago

Qwen3.5-2B

Mar 2, 2026

1 weeks ago

6mo newer

Knowledge Cutoff

When training data ends

Neither model specifies a knowledge cutoff date.

Unable to compare the recency of their training data.

No cutoff dates available

Outputs Comparison

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Key Takeaways

Larger context window (128,000 tokens)
Higher GPQA score (73.2% vs 51.6%)
Higher IFEval score (89.6% vs 78.6%)
Higher MMLU-Pro score (82.7% vs 66.5%)
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team

Qwen3.5-2B

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Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team

Supports multimodal inputs

Detailed Comparison

AI Model Comparison Table
Feature
Meituan
LongCat-Flash-Chat
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen3.5-2B