Agentic
Not comparable- Kimi K3
- 71.9
- Supported · #4/152
- LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse
- Not ranked
- Basis
- BenchAlign lane · 11 vs 4 public rows
- Reading
- Not comparable
Kimi K3 vs LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse
Updated September 10, 2026. Public scores include evidence status and uncertainty. They are not guarantees for a specific workload.
Decision reading
At least one model is not scored in the current public ranking lane, so the page does not name an overall quality winner.
4 results are shared. Category rows resting on Estimated evidence or different benchmark sets are marked directional and do not name a winner.
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Which one for your work
Recommendations appear only when a shared evidence basis or an explicit operating constraint supports the call. Secondary and unsupported use cases stay disclosed below the initial list.
Long documents
Prompts that approach the documented context limit
Kimi K3
Kimi K3 has the larger documented context window.
Confidence: documented
Show secondary and unsupported calls
Coding work
Code generation, repair, and software-engineering tasks
Not enough matched evidence
LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse is not ranked on the public lane for coding, so no winner is named for coding.
Confidence: limited
Agentic work
Tool use, computer use, and multi-step task completion
Not enough matched evidence
LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse is not ranked on the public lane for agentic, so no winner is named for agentic.
Confidence: limited
Chat turn cost
1K fresh input + 500 output tokens
Not enough matched evidence
A complete comparable API-rate estimate is not available for both models.
Confidence: listed-rates
Cache-heavy agent loop cost
200K cached + 20K fresh input + 10K output tokens
Not enough matched evidence
A complete comparable API-rate estimate is not available for both models.
Confidence: listed-rates
Repository review cost
50K fresh input + 3K output tokens
Not enough matched evidence
A complete comparable API-rate estimate is not available for both models.
Confidence: listed-rates
What is actually comparable
Shared results can support a head-to-head reading. Results present for only one model describe coverage, not superiority.
39 Kimi K3 only
4 Shared
13 LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse only
- Shared results
- 4
- Kimi K3 only
- 39
- LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse only
- 13
- Like-for-like categories
- 0 / 8
Category results, on a stated basis
Each row shows the public-lane category score for both models: the BenchAlign lane for agentic, coding, and knowledge, and the weighted public rows elsewhere, with the same rank each model page reports. A row is like-for-like only when both scores rest on Supported evidence or the same weighted set. Directional and not-comparable rows remain visible, but they never receive a winner.
Coding
Not comparable- Kimi K3
- 68.0
- Supported · #6/151
- LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse
- Not ranked
- Basis
- BenchAlign lane · 13 vs 4 public rows
- Reading
- Not comparable
Reasoning
Not comparable- Kimi K3
- 78.5
- #3/20
- LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse
- Not ranked
- Basis
- Provisional lane · 0 vs 0 weighted rows
- Reading
- Not comparable
Knowledge
Not comparable- Kimi K3
- 72.0
- Supported · #8/183
- LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse
- Not ranked
- Basis
- BenchAlign lane · 6 vs 5 public rows
- Reading
- Not comparable
Math
Not comparable- Kimi K3
- Not ranked
- LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse
- Not ranked
- Basis
- Provisional lane · 0 vs 2 weighted rows
- Reading
- Not comparable
Multilingual
Not comparable- Kimi K3
- Not ranked
- LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse
- Not ranked
- Basis
- Provisional lane · 0 vs 0 weighted rows
- Reading
- Not comparable
Multimodal
Not comparable- Kimi K3
- 89.5
- #1/48
- LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse
- Not ranked
- Basis
- Provisional lane · 3 vs 0 weighted rows
- Reading
- Not comparable
Instruction following
Not comparable- Kimi K3
- Not ranked
- LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse
- Not ranked
- Basis
- Provisional lane · 0 vs 0 weighted rows
- Reading
- Not comparable
| Category | Kimi K3 | LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse | Basis | Reading |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agentic | 71.9Supported · #4/152 | Not ranked | Not comparableBenchAlign lane · 11 vs 4 public rows | Not comparable |
| Coding | 68.0Supported · #6/151 | Not ranked | Not comparableBenchAlign lane · 13 vs 4 public rows | Not comparable |
| Reasoning | 78.5#3/20 | Not ranked | Not comparableProvisional lane · 0 vs 0 weighted rows | Not comparable |
| Knowledge | 72.0Supported · #8/183 | Not ranked | Not comparableBenchAlign lane · 6 vs 5 public rows | Not comparable |
| Math | Not ranked | Not ranked | Not comparableProvisional lane · 0 vs 2 weighted rows | Not comparable |
| Multilingual | Not ranked | Not ranked | Not comparableProvisional lane · 0 vs 0 weighted rows | Not comparable |
| Multimodal | 89.5#1/48 | Not ranked | Not comparableProvisional lane · 3 vs 0 weighted rows | Not comparable |
| Instruction following | Not ranked | Not ranked | Not comparableProvisional lane · 0 vs 0 weighted rows | Not comparable |
Ranks count the models scored in each category’s lane, so the agentic, coding, and knowledge denominators (BenchAlign) differ from the provisional-lane categories. Unranked scores sit on the lane’s scale but never name a winner. Like-for-like rows within 0.5 points read as a practical tie.
Shape of the matched evidence
Only shared public evidence is shown. Sparse evidence stays a ruled list rather than being closed into a radar shape.
Too few matched category axes support a radar. The ruled list below shows only shared benchmark results; positions use each benchmark’s normalized display scale when available.
Terminal-Bench 2.0
Agentic
Kimi K3: 88.3%LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse: 33.7%Normalized gap 54.6Kimi K3 source LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse sourceBrowseComp
Agentic
Kimi K3: 91.2%LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse: 48.6%Normalized gap 42.6Kimi K3 source LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse source
What each workload costs
Three fixed token mixes turn per-token rates into comparable decisions. Each scenario states context fit and whether cached input had to fall back to the published list-input rate.
Chat turn
1K fresh input + 500 output tokens
- Kimi K3
- $0.0105
- Fits in one request
- LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse
- Self-hosted; infrastructure cost varies
- Fits in one request
LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse has no comparable published API token rate.
Repository review
50K fresh input + 3K output tokens
- Kimi K3
- $0.195
- Fits in one request
- LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse
- Self-hosted; infrastructure cost varies
- Fits in one request
LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse has no comparable published API token rate.
Cache-heavy agent loop
200K cached + 20K fresh input + 10K output tokens
- Kimi K3
- $0.27
- Fits in one request
- LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse
- Self-hosted; infrastructure cost varies
- Fits in one request
- Cached-input rate unavailable
LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse has no comparable published API token rate.
Specification differences
Sourced differences are shown directly. Missing facts stay explicit instead of being inferred from a model name or family.
SpecificationKimi K3LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse
Context window
Maximum documented context; output-token limits may be lower.
Kimi K3
1.05M
LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse
API model ID
Kimi K3
Not sourced
LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse
meituan-longcat/LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse
Meituan LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse model cardCached-input rate
A missing cached-input rate falls back to the listed input rate only in the stated workload estimate.
Kimi K3
$0.3 per 1M cached input tokens
LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse
No comparable hosted API rate
Meituan LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse model cardDocumented inputs
Kimi K3
Not sourced
LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse
Not sourced
Documented outputs
Kimi K3
Not sourced
LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse
Not sourced
Provider availability
Kimi K3
Not sourced
LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse
Not sourced
Reasoning profile
Kimi K3
Reasoning
LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse
Reasoning
Weight access
Kimi K3
Pending
LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse
Open Weight
License
Kimi K3
Pending
LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse
Open Weight
Release date
Kimi K3
2026-07-16
LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse
2026-07-31
If you already use one of these models
- Deployment change
- The models list different providers, so authentication, endpoint behavior, limits, and feature support may change.
- Quality signal
- At least one model is not scored in the current public ranking lane, so the page does not name an overall quality winner.
- Workload cost
- A complete comparable API-rate estimate is not available for both models.
- Context tradeoff
- Kimi K3 has the larger documented window (1.05M).
Run the same representative tasks against both endpoints before changing production traffic.
Benchmark evidence
The full public result ledger is available for audit without forcing a wide desktop table onto a phone.
Browse raw public benchmark evidence56 rows
Agentic
Terminal-Bench 2.0
Kimi K388.3%SourceLongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse33.7%SourceKimi K3 leads this result
BrowseComp
Kimi K391.2%SourceLongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse48.6%SourceKimi K3 leads this result
DeepSearchQA
Kimi K395.0%SourceLongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse—Not directly comparable
Toolathlon-Verified
Kimi K373.2%SourceLongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse—Not directly comparable
MCP Atlas
Kimi K384.2%SourceLongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse45.6%SourceKimi K3 leads this result
AutomationBench
Kimi K330.8%SourceLongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse—Not directly comparable
JobBench
Kimi K352.9%SourceLongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse—Not directly comparable
APEX-Agents
Kimi K337.6%SourceLongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse—Not directly comparable
SpreadsheetBench 2
Kimi K334.8%SourceLongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse—Not directly comparable
DECK-Bench
Kimi K373.5%SourceLongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse—Not directly comparable
Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals)
Kimi K380.9%SourceLongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse—Not directly comparable
VITA-Bench
Kimi K3—LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse21.7%SourceNot directly comparable
Coding
DeepSWE
Kimi K367.5%SourceLongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse—Not directly comparable
cursorBench32
Kimi K360.8%SourceLongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse—Not directly comparable
FrontierSWE
Kimi K381.2%SourceLongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse—Not directly comparable
ProgramBench
Kimi K377.8%SourceLongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse—Not directly comparable
Kimi Code Bench v2
Kimi K372.9%SourceLongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse—Not directly comparable
sweMarathon
Kimi K342%SourceLongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse—Not directly comparable
PostTrain Bench
Kimi K336.6%SourceLongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse—Not directly comparable
MLS-Bench Lite
Kimi K348.3%SourceLongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse—Not directly comparable
VulcanBench v3
Kimi K373.7%SourceLongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse—Not directly comparable
OpenHarmony Bench
Kimi K357.3%SourceLongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse—Not directly comparable
FrontierSWE v2
Kimi K325.9%SourceLongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse—Not directly comparable
LiveCodeBench (Vals)
Kimi K387.2%SourceLongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse—Not directly comparable
SWE-bench (Vals)
Kimi K393.4%SourceLongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse—Not directly comparable
SWE-bench Verified
Kimi K3—LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse68.2%SourceNot directly comparable
SWE-bench Pro
Kimi K3—LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse40.6%SourceNot directly comparable
SWE Multilingual
Kimi K3—LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse59.3%SourceNot directly comparable
Terminal-Bench 2.0
Kimi K3—LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse33.7%SourceNot directly comparable
Knowledge
GPQA
Kimi K393.5%SourceLongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse—Not directly comparable
GPQA-D
Kimi K393.5%SourceLongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse69.5%SourceKimi K3 leads this result
HLE
Kimi K356%SourceLongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse—Not directly comparable
HLE w/o tools
Kimi K343.5%SourceLongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse—Not directly comparable
GPQA Diamond (Vals)
Kimi K392.9%SourceLongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse—Not directly comparable
MMLU-Pro (Vals)
Kimi K388.0%SourceLongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse—Not directly comparable
MMLU
Kimi K3—LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse85.3%SourceNot directly comparable
MMLU-Pro
Kimi K3—LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse79.2%SourceNot directly comparable
CMMLU
Kimi K3—LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse84.3%SourceNot directly comparable
C-Eval
Kimi K3—LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse85.8%SourceNot directly comparable
Math
MATH-500
Kimi K3—LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse95.8%SourceNot directly comparable
AIME26
Kimi K3—LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse65.7%SourceNot directly comparable
HMMT Feb 2026
Kimi K3—LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse40.5%SourceNot directly comparable
IMOAnswerBench
Kimi K3—LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse49.4%SourceNot directly comparable
Multimodal
OfficeQA Pro
Kimi K363.3%SourceLongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse—Not directly comparable
MMMU-Pro
Kimi K381.6%SourceLongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse—Not directly comparable
MMMU-Pro w/ Python
Kimi K383.4%SourceLongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse—Not directly comparable
CharXiv w/o tools
Kimi K384.8%SourceLongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse—Not directly comparable
CharXiv
Kimi K391.3%SourceLongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse—Not directly comparable
MathVision
Kimi K394.3%SourceLongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse—Not directly comparable
MathVision w/ Python
Kimi K397.8%SourceLongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse—Not directly comparable
BabyVision w/ Python
Kimi K385.7%SourceLongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse—Not directly comparable
ZeroBench
Kimi K323.0%SourceLongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse—Not directly comparable
ZeroBench w/ Python
Kimi K341.0%SourceLongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse—Not directly comparable
WorldVQA ForceAnswer
Kimi K351.0%SourceLongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse—Not directly comparable
OmniDocBench
Kimi K391.1%SourceLongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse—Not directly comparable
PerceptionBench
Kimi K358.5%SourceLongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse—Not directly comparable
Frequently asked questions
Which is better, Kimi K3 or LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse?
At least one model is not scored in the current public ranking lane, so the page does not name an overall quality winner. The page therefore keeps the decision tied to the specific documented workload.
Which is better for coding, Kimi K3 or LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse?
LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse is not ranked on the public lane for coding, so no winner is named for coding.
Which is better for agentic tasks, Kimi K3 or LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse?
LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse is not ranked on the public lane for agentic tasks, so no winner is named for agentic tasks.
Which costs less, Kimi K3 or LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse?
Both models do not have comparable published API token rates, so this page does not name a universal price winner.
Which has the larger context window, Kimi K3 or LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse?
Kimi K3 has the larger documented context window: 1.05M, compared with 1M.
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