# LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse vs Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse and Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/longcat-flash-lite-sparse-vs-ornith-1-5-35b-a3b
- Last updated: September 10, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 6
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5

## Quick Verdict

Pick Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B 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

- Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B leads overall 37.06 to 0.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is MCP Atlas in Agentic, with scores of 45.6% and 70.2%.
- LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse also has the larger context window at 1M.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse | Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Meituan | Ornith AI |
| Type | Open Weight | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 1M | 262K |
| Overall Score | null | 37.06 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 17 | 18 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $0.00 / $0.00 | $0.00 / $0.00 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Coming soon
- LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse public-lane score: Coming soon
- Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B public-lane score: 46.7 (Estimated · #75/152)

| Benchmark | LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse | Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 33.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| VITA-Bench | 21.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MCP Atlas | 45.6% | 70.2% | Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B |
| BrowseComp | 48.6% | 67.6% | Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | Coming soon | 67.8% | Coming soon |
| HLE w/ tools | Coming soon | 33.4% | Coming soon |
| Toolathlon-Verified | Coming soon | 48.7% | Coming soon |
| WideResearch | Coming soon | 67.8% | Coming soon |
| Claw-Eval | Coming soon | 72.5% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Coming soon
- LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse public-lane score: Coming soon
- Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B public-lane score: 46.6 (Estimated · #79/151)

| Benchmark | LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse | Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | 68.2% | 79% | Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B |
| SWE-bench Pro | 40.6% | 59.6% | Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B |
| SWE Multilingual | 59.3% | 71.4% | Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 33.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | Coming soon | 67.8% | Coming soon |
| DeepSWE | Coming soon | 22.0% | Coming soon |
| frontierBench | Coming soon | 5.1% | Coming soon |
| NL2Repo | Coming soon | 46.2% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Coming soon
- LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse public-lane score: Coming soon
- Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B public-lane score: 41.4 (Estimated · #127/183)

| Benchmark | LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse | Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMLU | 85.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro | 79.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CMMLU | 84.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| C-Eval | 85.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA-D | 69.5% | 89.2% | Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B |
| GPQA | Coming soon | 89.2% | Coming soon |
| HLE | Coming soon | 25.6% | Coming soon |
| HLE w/o tools | Coming soon | 25.6% | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Coming soon
- LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse public-lane score: Coming soon
- Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse | Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MATH-500 | 95.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| AIME26 | 65.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2026 | 40.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| IMOAnswerBench | 49.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse or Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B?

Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B 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 Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B cover on BenchLM?

Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B currently has 18 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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