{"slug": "longcat-2-5-now-available-on-ai-gateway", "title": "LongCat 2.5 now available on AI Gateway", "summary": "Meituan's LongCat 2.5 model is now available on Vercel's AI Gateway under the model name `meituan/longcat-2.5`, adding native visual understanding, coding and multi-step tool use for agents working across complex codebases and full-project builds. The model accepts text and image inputs with a 1M-token context window covering code, documents and extended task histories, and Meituan highlights improvements in visual programming, creative design and 3D tasks alongside longer agent workflows that carry engineering work from planning through execution. Vercel said AI Gateway reflects provider pricing with no markup and charges no platform fee on inference, including on Bring Your Own Key requests.", "body_md": "[LongCat 2.5 from Meituan](https://vercel.com/ai-gateway/models/longcat-2.5) is now available on AI Gateway. This model combines native visual understanding with coding and multi-step tool use for agents working across complex codebases and full-project builds.\n\n[Meituan highlights](https://longcat.ai/blog/longcat-2.5) improvements in visual programming, creative design, and 3D tasks, alongside longer agent workflows that carry engineering work from planning through execution. The model supports text and image inputs with a 1M-token context window for code, documents, and extended task histories.\n\nUse `meituan/longcat-2.5` as the model name:\n\nTo use it in Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and more, install the latest Vercel CLI and run setup:\n\nThen select `meituan/longcat-2.5` in the agent. See the [coding agents guide](https://vercel.com/docs/ai-gateway/coding-agents) for details.\n\nTry LongCat 2.5 in the [model playground](https://vercel.com/ai-gateway/models/longcat-2.5).\n\nAI Gateway provides a unified API for calling models, tracking usage and cost, and configuring retries, failover, and performance optimizations for higher-than-provider uptime. It includes built-in [custom reporting](https://vercel.com/changelog/custom-reporting-ai-gateway), [Zero Data Retention support](https://vercel.com/blog/zdr-on-ai-gateway), [budgets for API keys](https://vercel.com/docs/ai-gateway/authentication-and-byok/api-keys), [routing rules](https://vercel.com/docs/ai-gateway/models-and-providers/routing-rules), and more.\n\nAI Gateway reflects provider pricing with no markup and does not charge a platform fee on inference, including on [Bring Your Own Key](https://vercel.com/docs/ai-gateway/authentication-and-byok/byok) (BYOK) requests.\n\nYou can view [all language models](https://vercel.com/ai-gateway/models?type=text) available on AI Gateway.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/longcat-2-5-now-available-on-ai-gateway", "canonical_source": "https://vercel.com/changelog/longcat-2-5-now-available-on-ai-gateway", "published_at": "2026-11-02 00:00:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-11-02 22:20:24.362413+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["large-language-models", "ai-agents", "ai-tools", "ai-products", "developer-tools"], "entities": ["Meituan", "LongCat 2.5", "Vercel", "AI Gateway", "Claude Code", "Codex", "Cursor"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/longcat-2-5-now-available-on-ai-gateway", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/longcat-2-5-now-available-on-ai-gateway.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/longcat-2-5-now-available-on-ai-gateway.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/longcat-2-5-now-available-on-ai-gateway.jsonld"}}