# dots3-note Preview vs LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for dots3-note Preview and LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/dots3-note-preview-vs-longcat-flash-lite-sparse
- Last updated: September 10, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 5
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5

## Quick Verdict

Pick dots3-note Preview if you want the stronger benchmark profile. LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse only makes more sense when its price, context window, or workload-specific category wins matter more than the overall score.

## Summary

- dots3-note Preview leads overall 64.41 to 0.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is IMOAnswerBench in Mathematics, with scores of 90.9% and 49.4%.
- LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse also has the larger context window at 1M.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | dots3-note Preview | LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Dots Studio | Meituan |
| Type | Open Weight | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 512K | 1M |
| Overall Score | 64.41 | null |
| Benchmarks Covered | 31 | 17 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $0.00 / $0.00 | $0.00 / $0.00 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Coming soon
- dots3-note Preview public-lane score: 59.3 (Estimated · #25/152)
- LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | dots3-note Preview | LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Claw-Eval | 73.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 75.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Toolathlon-Verified | 55.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| skillsBench | 52.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| APEX-Agents | 30.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BrowseComp | 83.3% | 48.6% | dots3-note Preview |
| HLE w/ tools | 52.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| DeepSearchQA | 92.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| WideResearch | 78.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | Coming soon | 33.7% | Coming soon |
| VITA-Bench | Coming soon | 21.7% | Coming soon |
| MCP Atlas | Coming soon | 45.6% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Coming soon
- dots3-note Preview public-lane score: 57.2 (Estimated · #34/151)
- LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | dots3-note Preview | LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Codeforces | 3056.0 | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | 91.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 75.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Verified | 78.4% | 68.2% | dots3-note Preview |
| SWE Multilingual | 75.7% | 59.3% | dots3-note Preview |
| SWE-bench Pro | 61% | 40.6% | dots3-note Preview |
| NL2Repo | 49.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | Coming soon | 33.7% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Coming soon
- dots3-note Preview public-lane score: 66.1 (Unranked · 10 rankable rows)
- LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | dots3-note Preview | LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SimpleVQA | 72.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMMU-Pro | 79.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MathVision | 87.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ZeroBench | 19.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CharXiv w/o tools | 83.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GDP.pdf (no tools) | 60.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| PerceptionBench | 53.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BabyVision | 50.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMVU | 79.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| VideoMMMU | 86.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Coming soon
- dots3-note Preview public-lane score: 68.3 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)
- LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | dots3-note Preview | LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| ARC-AGI-2 | 81.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Coming soon
- dots3-note Preview public-lane score: 57.9 (Estimated · #42/183)
- LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | dots3-note Preview | LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| HLE | 52.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU | Coming soon | 85.3% | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro | Coming soon | 79.2% | Coming soon |
| CMMLU | Coming soon | 84.3% | Coming soon |
| C-Eval | Coming soon | 85.8% | Coming soon |
| GPQA-D | Coming soon | 69.5% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Coming soon
- dots3-note Preview public-lane score: 86.3 (#38/123)
- LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | dots3-note Preview | LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | 80.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| IFEval | 93.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Coming soon
- dots3-note Preview public-lane score: Coming soon
- LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | dots3-note Preview | LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IMOAnswerBench | 90.9% | 49.4% | dots3-note Preview |
| MATH-500 | Coming soon | 95.8% | Coming soon |
| AIME26 | Coming soon | 65.7% | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2026 | Coming soon | 40.5% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, dots3-note Preview or LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse?

dots3-note Preview is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### How many benchmarks does dots3-note Preview cover on BenchLM?

dots3-note Preview currently has 31 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

### How many benchmarks does LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse cover on BenchLM?

LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse currently has 17 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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