LongCat-2.5: Meituan, which delivers meals, releases 1.6 trillion parameters under the MIT licence and grades itself, 31 times out of 31
In China, Meituan delivers meals: the company launched its food delivery in 2013, and around 5.27 million couriers earned income on its platform in 2021, according to its own page. On 04/11/2026, the same company put LongCat-2.5 on Hugging Face: 1.6 trillion parameters, open weights under the MIT licence. On its card, 31 tests, 31 scores, and not one carries the asterisk that flags a number taken from elsewhere: all are measured by Meituan, which itself calls them indicative only. Top score of the row? 4 times out of 31.
Analysis. LongCat-2.5's Hugging Face card, repository data and licence copied on 12/11/2026 at 06:12 UTC. Technical blog post, LongCat API pages, Meituan's own page, the LongCat-2.0 card and leaderboards read the same day between 06:13 and 06:20 UTC. Dates are written day/month/year.
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In brief
- The model: a multimodal mixture of experts with 1.6 trillion parameters, of which about 48 billion work on each token, under the MIT licence; repository created on 04/11/2026, last modified on 10/11/2026.
- The scores: Meituan measured all 31 of LongCat-2.5's scores itself. Our count: LongCat-2.5 has the highest score of its row on 4 tests, Claude-Opus-5 on 12, one of them tied with GLM-5.3 (GDPVal-AA).
- The price: $0.30 per million tokens sent and $1.20 per million tokens produced, as a limited-time discount; the regular price is not shown.
A delivery app that builds brains
On 12/11/2026, at 06:12 UTC, I opened LongCat-2.5's card. Before the model's numbers, I wanted to know who signs it. On its company page, Meituan describes itself as a tech-driven retail company, established in March 2010, listed in Hong Kong since 20/09/2018; the 5.27 million couriers of 2021 come from its annual report. Its investor press releases are datelined Beijing, China.
Kira asked me what a delivery app does with a model that size. The card doesn't say. This is no first attempt: the 30 most recent repositories of the meituan-longcat account on Hugging Face go back to 29/08/2025.
The beast, in plain words
The card sums it up in one sentence: a native multimodal mixture-of-experts model for long-horizon agentic tasks. Let's unfold that. A mixture of experts is a model split into many sub-networks; for each token, a piece of a word or of an image, only some of them compute. For LongCat-2.5, about 48 billion parameters out of 1.6 trillion, roughly 3% of the model at each step (our calculation). Native multimodal: according to the card, images are turned into discrete tokens and aligned with text in a shared semantic space; Meituan's blog post adds that the same backbone thus handles images and text. And a long-horizon agent is a model that acts instead of just answering: according to the API changelog, multi-step reasoning, tool use, end-to-end task execution.
A detail that made me read twice: LongCat-2.0, the older model LongCat-2.5 is built on, already listed 1.6 trillion parameters and about 48 billion active per token. On paper, version 2.5 did not grow. Another detail: in the files, Hugging Face counts more than the announced 1.6 trillion, 1,779,752,648,320 parameters for LongCat-2.5 and 1,775,560,491,136 for LongCat-2.0. The card does not say where the gap with its 1.6 trillion comes from.
On the hardware side, the card mentions optimisations on domestic AI accelerators, and the Chinese description of the blog post announces training done end to end on chips made in China. Which ones? Neither the card nor the blog post I read names them.
I counted the asterisks
The rule is written under the card's table. A score followed by an asterisk is cited from public technical reports, blog posts or official leaderboards; a score without one is measured in-house by Meituan and is indicative only. LongCat-2.5 has 31 scores, no asterisk. The eight other models in the table have 205 scores in all (our count): 92 carry the asterisk, 113 are Meituan's own measurements, including LongCat-2.0's 23.
Six rows of that table follow, scores as printed by Meituan, with no unit; the asterisk flags a number taken from a public source.
| Test | LongCat-2.5 | LongCat-2.0 | GLM-5.3 | Highest score among the other models |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terminal Bench v2.1 | 88.4 | 70.8 | 88.2* | 90.6* (DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash) |
| Terminal Bench v4.0 | 38.5 | 3.0 | 41.8* | 53.9* (Claude-Opus-5) |
| BrowseComp | 91.9 | 79.9 | 81.0 | 91.5 (DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash) |
| ALE (v1.1) | 38.5 | - | 26.2* | 35.2* (kimi-k3) |
| HLE (w/ tools) | 63.1 | 37.5 | 62.5* | 64.7* (Claude-Opus-5) |
| LongCat AppDev (Internal) | 73.7 | 47.7 | 73.5 | 76.4 (Claude-Opus-5) |
According to Meituan, a leap within its own line: from 3.0 to 38.5 on Terminal Bench v4.0. Across the 31 rows, LongCat-2.5 has the highest score 4 times: BrowseComp, ALE, ResearchRubrics and 3DCodeBench. On ResearchRubrics and 3DCodeBench, no score in the row carries an asterisk; ALE is the only one of the four where LongCat-2.5 beats scores that are all asterisked (our count). GLM-5.3, whose version stripped of a quarter of its experts Milky wrote about, is in the table too.
And my favourite detail: three tests carry the company's own name, LongCat AppDev (Internal), LongCatClawBench and LongCatClawBench-MM. LongCat-2.5 comes first on none of the three: 73.7 against 76.4 for Claude-Opus-5 on LongCat AppDev, 83.3 against 86.3 for kimi-k3 on LongCatClawBench, 72.1 against 73.2 for GPT-5.6-Sol on LongCatClawBench-MM. On the tests bearing its name, Meituan does not put itself on the top step.
The weights, the licence, the price
The weights can be downloaded. The main repository holds 231 files totalling 3,562,006,190,332 bytes, about 3.56 terabytes (our calculation, sum of the sizes given by Hugging Face's API). W4A4 is the quantisation Meituan applies: the experts' weights (the numbers learned in training) and their activations (the values computed at each pass) are brought down to 4 bits. The same day, at 13:50 UTC, Meituan opened a second repository bearing that name, LongCat-2.5-W4A4: 1,336,050,649,628 bytes, about 1.34 terabytes (our calculation). According to Meituan, accuracy stays comparable to the unquantised model on the benchmarks evaluated.
To run it, the card says one thing: it can be deployed on NPU platforms, processors specialised for AI, with a guide for SGLang-FluentLLM. No minimum memory, no recipe for graphics cards.
The MIT licence allows, free of charge, to use, copy, modify, distribute and sell, provided the copyright notice and the permission notice are included. No rights, the card specifies, to Meituan's trademarks or patents.
The API has been running since 02/11/2026, two days before the weights were uploaded, according to the changelog. Listed rate, as a limited-time discount: $0.30 per million tokens sent to the model, $0.006 for those it already has cached (kept from one request to the next), and $1.20 per million tokens it produces. The page's example: a request with one million tokens sent, 400,000 of them cached, and 500,000 tokens produced costs $0.7824; a hundred such requests, $78.24 (our calculation).
What we don't know yet
The date of the technical blog post, absent from the copied content. The price outside the discount. The name of the chips. A technical report. Where the roughly 180 billion extra parameters counted by Hugging Face come from (our calculation). And above all, a LongCat-2.5 score taken by someone other than Meituan.
My verdict: Meituan released a huge model, put it under MIT, and filled in its own report card. What I like about that report card is the asterisk: it tells you exactly which boxes you have to take on trust. For LongCat-2.5, that's all 31. And a cook who grades his own dishes without giving himself first place on the tests bearing his name at least went easy on the sauce.
Words to remember
- Parameter: one of the numbers tuned during training; their total gives the model's size.
- Token: the piece of text (or of an image, for LongCat-2.5) the model reads or produces at each step.
- Mixture of experts: a model split into sub-networks, only some of which compute for each token.
- Quantisation: storing the model's numbers on fewer bits so it takes less space and computes faster.
- NPU: a processor specialised in AI computations.
Source sheet
- Who: Meituan, LongCat team, LongCat-2.5 model card on Hugging Face.
- Date: repository created on 04/11/2026, last modified on 10/11/2026; API opened on 02/11/2026.
- Links: the LongCat-2.5 card · the technical blog post · the API pricing · On Silicium Rose: GLM-5.3 Slim, the cut-down version, told by Milky
Source passages
Documents read on 12/11/2026 between 06:12 and 06:20 UTC. Positions: rank of the passage's first character (0 = first character), either in the raw file or in the extracted text (for HTML, tags and scripts removed and entities decoded; for all, spaces and line breaks merged), as stated for each file. Passage S4 quotes the rows of the card's table as written in its code; the asterisk marks a score taken from a public source.
Show the 19 sources
| Ref. | Quote (original language) | URL |
|---|---|---|
| S1↑1↑2↑3↑4↑5↑6+5 | "LongCat-2.5 is a native multimodal MoE model for long-horizon agentic tasks, with 1.6 trillion total parameters and approximately 48 billion activated per token. Building on LongCat-2.0," ; "native-resolution visual features are converted into discrete tokens and jointly aligned with text in a shared semantic space" ; "infrastructure optimizations on domestic AI accelerators" ; "Scores marked with * are cited from public technical reports, blog posts, or official leaderboards; unmarked scores are measured in-house and are indicative only." ; "LongCat-2.5 applies W4A4 quantization to expert weights and activations, enabling native INT4 computation on domestic AI accelerators." ; "it maintains accuracy comparable to the unquantized model on evaluated benchmarks" ; "LongCat-2.5 can be deployed on NPU platforms." ; "For NPU deployment, please refer to [SGLang-FluentLLM]" ; "This license does not grant any rights to use Meituan trademarks or patents." | https://huggingface.co/meituan-longcat/LongCat-2.5 |
| S2↑1↑2↑3↑4 | ""lastModified":"2026-11-10T07:28:07.000Z"" ; ""createdAt":"2026-11-04T11:48:50.000Z"" ; ""total":1779752648320" | https://huggingface.co/api/models/meituan-longcat/LongCat-2.5?blobs=true (with file sizes: 231 "siblings" entries, "size" field summed by us) |
| S3↑1↑2 | "Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software" ; "The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software." | https://huggingface.co/meituan-longcat/LongCat-2.5/blob/main/LICENSE |
| S4↑1↑2↑3↑4↑5↑6+3 | "<th align="center">Benchmark</th><th align="center">LongCat-2.5</th><th align="center">LongCat-2.0</th><th align="center">GPT-5.5</th><th align="center">GPT-5.6-Sol</th><th align="center">Claude-Opus-4.8</th><th align="center">Claude-Opus-5</th><th align="center">GLM-5.3</th><th align="center">kimi-k3</th><th align="center">DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash</th>" ; "<tr><td align="center">Terminal Bench v2.1</td><td align="center">88.4</td><td align="center">70.8</td><td align="center">83.2*</td><td align="center">88.8*</td><td align="center">74.6*</td><td align="center">89.1*</td><td align="center">88.2*</td><td align="center">88.3*</td><td align="center">90.6*</td></tr>" ; "<tr><td align="center">Terminal Bench v4.0</td><td align="center">38.5</td><td align="center">3.0</td><td align="center">-</td><td align="center">37.3*</td><td align="center">23.6*</td><td align="center">53.9*</td><td align="center">41.8*</td><td align="center">12.6*</td><td align="center">31.2*</td></tr>" ; "<tr><td align="center">BrowseComp</td><td align="center">91.9</td><td align="center">79.9</td><td align="center">84.4*</td><td align="center">90.4*</td><td align="center">84.3*</td><td align="center">90.8*</td><td align="center">81.0</td><td align="center">91.2*</td><td align="center">91.5</td></tr>" ; "<tr><td align="center">ALE (v1.1)</td><td align="center">38.5</td><td align="center">-</td><td align="center">-</td><td align="center">30.3*</td><td align="center">-</td><td align="center">-</td><td align="center">26.2*</td><td align="center">35.2*</td><td align="center">-</td></tr>" ; "<tr><td align="center">HLE (w/ tools)</td><td align="center">63.1</td><td align="center">37.5</td><td align="center">52.2</td><td align="center">58.0*</td><td align="center">57.9*</td><td align="center">64.7*</td><td align="center">62.5*</td><td align="center">56.0*</td><td align="center">63.9*</td></tr>" ; "<tr><td align="center">LongCat AppDev (Internal)</td><td align="center">73.7</td><td align="center">47.7</td><td align="center">-</td><td align="center">68.8</td><td align="center">-</td><td align="center">76.4</td><td align="center">73.5</td><td align="center">75.1</td><td align="center">-</td></tr>" ; "<tr><td align="center">ResearchRubrics</td><td align="center">81.0</td><td align="center">71.9</td><td align="center">-</td><td align="center">74.2</td><td align="center">-</td><td align="center">72.9</td><td align="center">79.9</td><td align="center">78.8</td><td align="center">80.9</td></tr>" ; "<tr><td align="center">3DCodeBench (Text→3D)</td><td align="center">55.4</td><td align="center">-</td><td align="center">51.9</td><td align="center">52.3</td><td align="center">52.7</td><td align="center">54.3</td><td align="center">53.4</td><td align="center">49.3</td><td align="center">53.3</td></tr>" ; "<tr><td align="center">LongCatClawBench (FORTE)</td><td align="center">83.3</td><td align="center">72.2</td><td align="center">80.7</td><td align="center">80.6</td><td align="center">80.6</td><td align="center">82.6</td><td align="center">85.6</td><td align="center">86.3</td><td align="center">73.5</td></tr>" ; "<tr><td align="center">LongCatClawBench-MM (FORTE-MM)</td><td align="center">72.1</td><td align="center">-</td><td align="center">63.5</td><td align="center">73.2</td><td align="center">69.9</td><td align="center">73.1</td><td align="center">69.0</td><td align="center">70.7</td><td align="center">72.8</td></tr>" | https://huggingface.co/meituan-longcat/LongCat-2.5 |
| S5↑ | "A Tech-driven Retail Company" ; "Since its establishment in March 2010" ; "On 20 September, 2018, Meituan was listed on the Main Board of the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong." ; "{"year":"2013","title":"Meituan Food Delivery launched"" ; ""datasrc":"Source: Annual Report 2021","intro":"Create Jobs—in 2021 around 5.27 million food delivery couriers earned income through Meituan platform" | https://www.meituan.com/en-US/about-us |
| S6↑1↑2 | "<meta property="og:description" content="1.6万亿总参大模型，训练全程由国产芯片完成" />" ; "LongCat-2.5 represents visual signals as multi-level discrete tokens, enabling the backbone to process visual and textual inputs in a unified token-based format." | https://longcat.ai/blog/longcat-2.5/ (page loaded with JavaScript: content read in its script file, https://s3.meituan.net/static-prod01/com.sankuai.friday.longcat.next2p/assets/index-t2Qt-iAw.js) |
| S7↑1↑2↑3 | "Version: 2026-11-02 LongCat-2.5 Now Available" ; "Long-Horizon Agents for Complex Engineering : Tackles complex codebases and full-project builds through multi-step reasoning, tool use, and end-to-end task execution." ; "Version: 2026-09-25 LongCat-2.5-Preview Now Available" | https://longcat.chat/platform/docs/change-log |
| S8↑1↑2↑3 | "Item Discounted Price $/1M Tokens (limited-time) Uncached Input $0.30 Cached Input $0.006 Output $1.20" ; "Prices are subject to change." ; "Input tokens: 1,000,000 (400,000 Cached Input, 600,000 Uncached Input) Output tokens: 500,000" ; "Total $0.18 + $0.0024 + $0.6 = $0.7824" | https://longcat.chat/platform/docs/api-pay-as-you-go |
| S9↑1↑2 | "We introduce LongCat-2.0, a large-scale MoE language model with 1.6 trillion total parameters and ~48 billion activated per token" ; ""total":1775560491136" | https://huggingface.co/meituan-longcat/LongCat-2.0 ; https://huggingface.co/api/models/meituan-longcat/LongCat-2.0 |
| S10↑ | ""createdAt":"2026-11-04T13:50:12.000Z"" | https://huggingface.co/api/models/meituan-longcat/LongCat-2.5-W4A4?blobs=true (231 "siblings" entries, "size" field summed by us) |
| S11↑ | "TERMINAL-BENCH 4.1" ; "Resolution rate of Terminal-Bench 4.1 tasks." | https://www.tbench.ai/leaderboard (search for "LongCat" in the raw file: 0 occurrences) |
| S12↑ | "<opensearch:totalResults>1</opensearch:totalResults>" ; "<title>Collective Reasoning, Single-Writer Execution: Fusion-MoA for Long-Horizon Agents</title>" ; "On the 63 tasks that both it and the API-served LongCat-2.5-Preview pass" | https://export.arxiv.org/api/query?search_query=all:%22LongCat-2.5%22&max_results=10 |
| S13↑ | ""id":"meituan-longcat/LongCat-2.0"" ; ""createdAt":"2026-07-05T00:07:44.000Z"" ; ""id":"meituan-longcat/LongCat-Flash-Chat-FP8"" ; ""createdAt":"2025-08-29T09:16:40.000Z"" | https://huggingface.co/api/models?author=meituan-longcat&sort=createdAt&direction=-1&limit=30 |
| S14↑ | "Beijing, China, August 18, 2026 -- Meituan (HKG: 03690) (the "Company"), China's leading ecommerce platform for services" | https://www.meituan.com/en-US/investor-relations |
| S15↑ | "Page not found" | https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/longcat-2-5 |
| S16↑ | "LongCat 2.0" ; "/models/longcat-2-0" (aucune occurrence de LongCat-2.5 dans le classement) | https://artificialanalysis.ai/leaderboards/models ; https://artificialanalysis.ai/sitemap.xml |
| S17↑ | ""id":"meituan/longcat-2.0"" (472 modèles, aucun identifiant longcat-2.5) | https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/models |
| S18↑ | "Nov 11, 2026" ; "421 models" (aucune occurrence de LongCat-2.5 ; seuls LongCat-Flash-Chat Exp (2602) et LongCat-Flash-Chat) | https://arena.ai/leaderboard/text |
| S19↑ | "TERMINAL-BENCH 4.1" (0 occurrence de « LongCat ») | https://www.tbench.ai/leaderboard |
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