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LongCat Flash Thinking 2601 vs Kimi K2 Thinking
Live dataset updated 9/9/2026, 10:25:31 PM UTC
Open 1200×630 evidence receipt| Field | LongCat Flash Thinking 2601 Meituan Longcat | Kimi K2 Thinking Moonshot AI |
|---|---|---|
| ModelCap position | #46 | #44 |
| Index score | 61.1 | 62.2 |
| Evidence | Estimatedglobal-corpus-prior over 183 held-out anchors (11%); launch card against 4 resolved peers on 3 rows (89%); exceeds every named peer on 1 of 3 rows; optimism haircut 0.15 from cross-lab-probe; shrunk 0.9 toward the measured corpus | Measured2 public benchmark observations across 2 boards |
| Input / 1M | Unavailable | $0.60 |
| Output / 1M | Unavailable | $2.50 |
| Pricing status | unavailable | fresh |
| Context | — | 262K |
| Providers | 0 | 2 |
| Weight access | Open weights | Restricted license |
Decision facts
- LongCat Flash Thinking 2601 is #46; Kimi K2 Thinking is #44 on the same current language board.
- Index scores are 61.1 for LongCat Flash Thinking 2601 and 62.2 for Kimi K2 Thinking. Their published uncertainty intervals overlap, so the rank difference alone does not establish a reliable capability advantage for your workload.
- Evidence differs: LongCat Flash Thinking 2601 is Estimated; Kimi K2 Thinking is Measured.
- Weight access differs: LongCat Flash Thinking 2601 is open; Kimi K2 Thinking is restricted.
- ModelCap currently lists 0 providers for LongCat Flash Thinking 2601 and 2 for Kimi K2 Thinking.
These are separate published fields, not a synthetic winner. ModelCap does not collapse price, access, context, and capability evidence into a hidden recommendation score.
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