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New Model Available: LongCat-2.5-Preview

Meituan released LongCat-2.5-Preview, a preview multimodal model with image understanding for cross-modal question answering, content summarization and complex visual reasoning, plus coding performance across code generation, code understanding and automated programming tasks. The model is optimized for developer environments including Claude Code, Hermes, OpenClaw, OpenCode and Kilo Code, and is listed with provider pricing of $0.3 and $1.18 per million tokens and read pricing of 0.006 per million tokens.

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New Model Available: LongCat-2.5-Preview
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LongCat-2.5-Preview is a preview multimodal model with image understanding capabilities for cross-modal question answering, content summarization, and complex visual reasoning. It delivers strong coding performance across code generation, code understanding, and automated programming tasks. The model is also deeply optimized for mainstream developer environments such as Claude Code, Hermes, OpenClaw, OpenCode, and Kilo Code.

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Providers #

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$0.75

$0.3

/ M tokens $2.95

$1.18

/ M tokens Read:

0.015

0.006/ M tokens

Write:

-/ M tokens1.05M--

Uptime #

24hours Direct request success rate on AI Gateway and per-provider.

Throughput #

24hours P50 throughput on live AI Gateway traffic, in tokens per second (TPS).

Latency #

24hours P50 time to first token (TTFT) on live AI Gateway traffic, in milliseconds.

Activity #

Token volume and request traffic to this model over time.

Benchmarks #

Scores on standardized evaluations. Higher percentages are better — and rank percentile shows

Metrics sourced fromArtificial Analysis

Apps #

Public apps that send the most traffic to this model. Good signal for what real production workloads look like — and a hint at which use cases this model is best suited for. View All

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