{"slug": "new-model-available-longcat-2-5-preview", "title": "New Model Available: LongCat-2.5-Preview", "summary": "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.", "body_md": "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.\n\n[Back to Models](https://zenmux.ai/models)\n\n## Providers\n\nRoute requests across multiple providers. Copy a provider slug to set your preference.\n\n~~$0.75~~\n\n**$0.3**\n\n*/ M tokens*\n\n~~$2.95~~\n\n**$1.18**\n\n*/ M tokens*\n\n*Read:*\n\n~~0.015~~\n\n**0.006**/ M tokens\n\n*Write:*\n\n**-**/ M tokens1.05M--\n\n## Uptime\n\n24hours\nDirect request success rate on AI Gateway and per-provider.\n\n## Throughput\n\n24hours\nP50 throughput on live AI Gateway traffic, in tokens per second (TPS).\n\n## Latency\n\n24hours\nP50 time to first token (TTFT) on live AI Gateway traffic, in milliseconds.\n\n## Activity\n\nToken volume and request traffic to this model over time.\n\n## Benchmarks\n\nScores on standardized evaluations. Higher percentages are better — and rank percentile shows\n\nMetrics sourced from[Artificial Analysis](https://artificialanalysis.ai/)\n\n## Apps\n\nPublic 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](https://zenmux.ai/analytics/apps)\n\n## Related Models\n\nMore models from [Meituan](https://zenmux.ai/meituan)", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/new-model-available-longcat-2-5-preview", "canonical_source": "https://zenmux.ai/meituan/longcat-2.5-preview", "published_at": "2026-10-08 12:51:13+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-10-08 13:21:18.325342+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "large-language-models", "generative-ai", "ai-products", "developer-tools"], "entities": ["Meituan", "LongCat-2.5-Preview", "Claude Code", "Hermes", "OpenClaw", "OpenCode", "Kilo Code", "Artificial Analysis"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/new-model-available-longcat-2-5-preview", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/new-model-available-longcat-2-5-preview.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/new-model-available-longcat-2-5-preview.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/new-model-available-longcat-2-5-preview.jsonld"}}