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LongCat Flash Chat vs DeepSeek V3.1

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Winner summary

DeepSeek V3.1 wins 1 of 1 shared benchmarks. Leads in arena.

Category leads
arena·DeepSeek V3.1
Hype vs Reality
LongCat Flash Chat
#43 by perf·no signal
QUIET
DeepSeek V3.1
#88 by perf·no signal
QUIET
Best value
1.1x better value than DeepSeek V3.1
LongCat Flash Chat
119.6 pts/$
$0.50/M
DeepSeek V3.1
113.6 pts/$
$0.45/M
Vendor risk
One or more vendors flagged
meituan logo
meituan
private · undisclosed
Unknown
DeepSeek logo
DeepSeek
$3.4B·Tier 1
Higher risk
Head to head
LongCat Flash ChatDeepSeek V3.1
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall
DeepSeek V3.1 leads by +16.8
LongCat Flash Chat
1401.1
DeepSeek V3.1
1417.9
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkLongCat Flash ChatDeepSeek V3.1
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall
1401.11417.9
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
meituan logoLongCat Flash Chat$0.20$0.80131K tokens (~66 books)$3.50
DeepSeek logoDeepSeek V3.1$0.15$0.7533K tokens (~16 books)$3.00