Head-to-head comparison across 2benchmark categories. Overall scores shown here use BenchLM's provisional ranking lane.
Gemini 3.5 Flash
86
LongCat-2.0
80
Verified leaderboard positions: Gemini 3.5 Flash #11 · LongCat-2.0 unranked
Pick Gemini 3.5 Flash if you want the stronger benchmark profile. LongCat-2.0 only becomes the better choice if coding is the priority or you want the cheaper token bill.
Agentic
+6.4 difference
Coding
+5.0 difference
Gemini 3.5 Flash
LongCat-2.0
$1.5 / $9
$0.75 / $2.95
284.2 t/s
N/A
18.55s
N/A
1M
1M
Pick Gemini 3.5 Flash if you want the stronger benchmark profile. LongCat-2.0 only becomes the better choice if coding is the priority or you want the cheaper token bill.
Gemini 3.5 Flash is clearly ahead on the provisional aggregate, 86 to 80. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
Gemini 3.5 Flash's sharpest advantage is in agentic, where it averages 77.2 against 70.8. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is Terminal-Bench 2.0, 76.2% to 70.8%. LongCat-2.0 does hit back in coding, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.
Gemini 3.5 Flash is also the more expensive model on tokens at $1.50 input / $9.00 output per 1M tokens, versus $0.75 input / $2.95 output per 1M tokens for LongCat-2.0. That is roughly 3.1x on output cost alone.
Gemini 3.5 Flash is ahead on BenchLM's provisional leaderboard, 86 to 80. The biggest single separator in this matchup is Terminal-Bench 2.0, where the scores are 76.2% and 70.8%.
LongCat-2.0 has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 59.5 versus 54.5. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Gemini 3.5 Flash has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 77.2 versus 70.8. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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