LongCat 2.0
LongCat 2.0 is a chat-oriented large language model from LongCat, tracked here with measured throughput and latency figures alongside provider pricing.
API Pricing
| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Cached / 1M |
|---|---|---|---|
| $0.300 | $1.20 | $0.0060 |
Prices updated daily. Last check: Oct 25, 2026
LongCat 2.0 pricing by provider
Input, output, and batch rates, plus alternatives, for one provider at a time.
Performance & Benchmarks
Source: Artificial Analysis →Reasoning & Knowledge
- GPQA Diamond78.0%
- Humanity's Last Exam33.7%
Coding
- SciCode36.3%
Agentic & Tool Use
- Terminal-Bench v2.150.2%
- τ-bench Banking13.2%
Instruction & Long Context
- Long-Context Reasoning65.0%
Benchmarks measured Oct 2026. Scores are independent evaluations, not vendor-reported.
Model Details
General
- Creator
- LongCat
- Modalities
- Text
Capabilities
Strengths & Limitations
Strengths
- Measured output throughput of approximately 69.44 tokens per second in Artificial Analysis testing, giving a concrete speed reference for capacity planning
- Independent third-party latency and throughput data is available, which is not the case for every model in this catalog
- Chat/instruction-following model, so it drops into existing OpenAI-style chat completion workflows served by most providers
- Streaming output makes the moderate time to first token less disruptive in interactive UIs than a non-streaming equivalent
- Listed across the providers shown in the pricing table on this page, allowing direct cost and latency comparison against other chat models
Limitations
- Time to first token of roughly 1,760 ms is slow enough to be perceptible in latency-sensitive chat interfaces
- We do not track a confirmed context window for LongCat 2.0 — verify the supported input length with your serving provider
- Modality support (image or audio input) is not recorded in our database, so multimodal use should not be assumed
- Tool calling and structured-output behavior are not documented in our metadata and must be tested directly
- No quality benchmark scores are recorded for this model, so capability comparisons against peers require your own evaluation
Key Features
About LongCat 2.0
Common Use Cases
LongCat 2.0 fits general-purpose text workloads where a mid-range streaming speed is acceptable: content drafting, summarization, document question answering, customer-support reply generation, and code explanation. Its roughly 1.76-second time to first token makes it better suited to asynchronous or background jobs — batch summarization, offline data enrichment, scheduled report generation — than to typeahead-style features where sub-second responsiveness is required. For interactive chat, streaming partially masks the initial delay, but applications with strict first-token latency budgets should benchmark it against faster-starting alternatives. Because we do not carry confirmed context window or multimodal metadata for LongCat 2.0, long-document pipelines and image-input workflows should be validated against the provider's own documentation before you design around them.
Frequently Asked Questions
How much does LongCat 2.0 cost to use?
Pricing varies by provider and by pricing type — input and output tokens are usually billed at different rates, and some providers add separate charges for cached input or long-context requests. Rates also change over time. Check the pricing table on this page for the current per-provider figures.
What is LongCat 2.0 best used for?
It suits general text generation tasks: summarization, drafting, question answering over supplied text, and code explanation. Its measured ~1,760 ms time to first token makes it a better fit for batch and background processing than for latency-critical interactive features.
How fast is LongCat 2.0?
Artificial Analysis measured LongCat 2.0 at approximately 69.44 output tokens per second with a time to first token of around 1,760 milliseconds. Actual speed depends on the provider, the hardware behind the endpoint, prompt length, and current load.
What context window does LongCat 2.0 support?
We do not track a confirmed context window for LongCat 2.0 in our database. If your workload depends on long inputs, confirm the supported token limit with the provider you plan to use before building around it.
Does LongCat 2.0 support image input or tool calling?
Our metadata does not record modality or tool-calling details for this model, so we cannot confirm either way. Check the serving provider's API documentation, or test a request directly, before relying on vision input or function calling.