# LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse vs MiniCPM5-1B

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse and MiniCPM5-1B across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/longcat-flash-lite-sparse-vs-minicpm5-1b
- Last updated: September 10, 2026

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

## Quick Verdict

Pick MiniCPM5-1B 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

- MiniCPM5-1B leads overall 40 to 0.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is GPQA-D in Knowledge, with scores of 69.5% and 26.3%.
- LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse also has the larger context window at 1M.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse | MiniCPM5-1B |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Meituan | OpenBMB |
| Type | Open Weight | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 1M | 131K |
| Overall Score | null | null |
| Benchmarks Covered | 17 | 14 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $0.00 / $0.00 | N/A |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Coming soon
- LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse public-lane score: Coming soon
- MiniCPM5-1B public-lane score: 43.1 (Estimated · #98/152)

| Benchmark | LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse | MiniCPM5-1B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 33.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| VITA-Bench | 21.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MCP Atlas | 45.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BrowseComp | 48.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BFCL v4 | Coming soon | 25.1% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Coming soon
- LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse public-lane score: Coming soon
- MiniCPM5-1B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse | MiniCPM5-1B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | 68.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | 40.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE Multilingual | 59.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 33.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench Pro | Coming soon | 22.7% | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | Coming soon | 33.5% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Coming soon
- LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse public-lane score: Coming soon
- MiniCPM5-1B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse | MiniCPM5-1B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| BBH | Coming soon | 71.9% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Coming soon
- LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse public-lane score: Coming soon
- MiniCPM5-1B public-lane score: 36.6 (Estimated · #149/183)

| Benchmark | LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse | MiniCPM5-1B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMLU | 85.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro | 79.2% | 48.9% | LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse |
| CMMLU | 84.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| C-Eval | 85.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA-D | 69.5% | 26.3% | LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse |
| MMLU-Redux | Coming soon | 70.1% | Coming soon |
| SuperGPQA | Coming soon | 23.1% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Coming soon
- LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse public-lane score: Coming soon
- MiniCPM5-1B public-lane score: 24.8 (#121/123)

| Benchmark | LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse | MiniCPM5-1B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | Coming soon | 46.7% | Coming soon |
| IFEval | Coming soon | 80.4% | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Coming soon
- LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse public-lane score: Coming soon
- MiniCPM5-1B public-lane score: 5.4 (Unranked · 4 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse | MiniCPM5-1B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MATH-500 | 95.8% | 91.6% | LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse |
| AIME26 | 65.7% | 40.4% | LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse |
| HMMT Feb 2026 | 40.5% | 25.8% | LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse |
| IMOAnswerBench | 49.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| AIME 2025 | Coming soon | 40.4% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse or MiniCPM5-1B?

MiniCPM5-1B is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

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

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

### How many benchmarks does MiniCPM5-1B cover on BenchLM?

MiniCPM5-1B currently has 14 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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