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GPT-4.1vsLongCat Flash Chat

LongCat Flash Chat leads 4 of 5 shared benchmarks. GPT-4.1 has the larger context window (1.0M tokens).

Benchmarks from cited public sources; pricing from official pages; status from official provider feeds.

Shared benchmarks
1 – 4
LongCat Flash Chat leads
Cheaper per token
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list price, input + output
Larger context
GPT-4.1
1.0M tokens
Providers
2 providers
OpenAI · Meituan LongCat
GPT-4.1
OpenAI · released 2025-04-14
textvision
Context
1.0M
Max out
33K
Input /1M
$2 ↗
Output /1M
$8 ↗
Cached /1M
$0.5
Scores
21 · 10 core
LongCat Flash Chat
Meituan LongCat · released 2025-09-01
text
Context
128K
Max out
—
Input /1M
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Output /1M
—
Cached /1M
—
Scores
32 · 9 core
Quality

Benchmark matrix

BenchmarkGPT-4.1LongCat Flash ChatΔEdge
Reported by both · 5
SWE-bench Verified54.6% ↗60.4% ↗-5.8 ptLongCat Flash Chat
GPQA Diamond66.3% ↗73.23% ↗-6.9 ptLongCat Flash Chat
MMLU90.2% ↗89.71% ↗+0.5 ptGPT-4.1
LMArena Elo1414.8 ↗1422.9 ↗-8.1LongCat Flash Chat
AIME 202448.1% ↗70.42% ↗-22.3 ptLongCat Flash Chat
Only GPT-4.1 reports · 10
Chess Puzzles (Epoch AI run)6% ↗epoch runnot reported——
FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 v2 (Epoch AI run)6% ↗epoch runnot reported——
LMArena Vision (LMArena)1214 ↗not reported——
MATH Level 5 (Epoch AI run)83% ↗epoch runnot reported——
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run)38.3% ↗epoch runnot reported——
SimpleBench (SimpleBench)27% ↗not reported——
SimpleQA Verified31.1% ↗epoch runnot reported——
SWE-bench Verified (Epoch AI run)48.5% ↗epoch runnot reported——
Video-MME (long, no subtitles)72% ↗not reported——
WeirdML (Håvard Tveit Ihle)39% ↗not reported——
Only LongCat Flash Chat reports · 26
MMLU-Pronot reported82.68% ↗——
AIME 2025not reported61.25% ↗——
AceBenchnot reported76.1% ↗——
ArenaHard-V2not reported86.5% ↗——
BeyondAIMEnot reported43% ↗——
C-Evalnot reported90.44% ↗——
CMMLUnot reported84.34% ↗——
COLLIEnot reported57.1% ↗——
DROPnot reported79.06% ↗——
GraphWalks-128knot reported51.05% ↗——
HumanEval+not reported88.41% ↗——
IFEvalnot reported89.65% ↗——
LiveCodeBenchnot reported48.02% ↗——
MATH500not reported96.4% ↗——
MBPP+not reported79.63% ↗——
Meeseeks-zhnot reported43.03% ↗——
Safety: Criminalnot reported91.24% ↗——
Safety: Harmfulnot reported83.98% ↗——
Safety: Misinformationnot reported81.72% ↗——
Safety: Privacynot reported93.98% ↗——
Tau2-Bench (airline)not reported58% ↗——
Tau2-Bench (retail)not reported71.27% ↗——
Tau2-Bench (telecom)not reported73.68% ↗——
TerminalBenchnot reported39.51% ↗——
VitaBenchnot reported24.3% ↗——
ZebraLogicnot reported89.3% ↗——
Scores tagged "epoch" or "matharena" are independent runs, used only where the lab has not published its own; ⚠ marks rows MathArena flags as released after the competition. Higher is better on every row. Δ is GPT-4.1 minus LongCat Flash Chat in the benchmark's own unit. "Not reported" means the lab has not published that figure; it is not a zero. ↗ opens the source.
Specs & pricing

Side by side

SpecGPT-4.1LongCat Flash ChatEdge
Context window1.0M tokens128K tokensGPT-4.1
Max output33K tokens——
Input price / 1M$2 ↗——
Output price / 1M$8 ↗——
Cached input / 1M$0.5 ↗——
Input + output / 1M
Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded.
$10——
Modalitiestext · visiontextGPT-4.1
Released2025-04-142025-09-01—
Cited benchmark scores2132—
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