# LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse vs Qwen3.6-27B

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse and Qwen3.6-27B across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/longcat-flash-lite-sparse-vs-qwen3-6-27b
- Last updated: September 10, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 9
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5

## Quick Verdict

Pick Qwen3.6-27B 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

- Qwen3.6-27B leads overall 47.69 to 0.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is HMMT Feb 2026 in Mathematics, with scores of 40.5% and 84.3%.
- LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse also has the larger context window at 1M.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse | Qwen3.6-27B |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Meituan | Alibaba |
| Type | Open Weight | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 1M | 262K |
| Overall Score | null | 47.69 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 17 | 38 |
| 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
- Qwen3.6-27B public-lane score: 30.9 (Supported · #140/152)

| Benchmark | LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse | Qwen3.6-27B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 33.7% | 59.3% | Qwen3.6-27B |
| VITA-Bench | 21.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MCP Atlas | 45.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BrowseComp | 48.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Claw-Eval | Coming soon | 72.4% | Coming soon |
| QwenClawBench | Coming soon | 53.4% | Coming soon |
| QwenWebBench | Coming soon | 1487 | Coming soon |
| AndroidWorld | Coming soon | 70.3% | Coming soon |
| Gert Labs | Coming soon | 54.84% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Coming soon
- LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.6-27B public-lane score: 41.7 (Supported · #107/151)

| Benchmark | LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse | Qwen3.6-27B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | 68.2% | 77.2% | Qwen3.6-27B |
| SWE-bench Pro | 40.6% | 53.5% | Qwen3.6-27B |
| SWE Multilingual | 59.3% | 71.3% | Qwen3.6-27B |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 33.7% | 59.3% | Qwen3.6-27B |
| LiveCodeBench | Coming soon | 83.9% | Coming soon |
| NL2Repo | Coming soon | 36.2% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Coming soon
- LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.6-27B public-lane score: 51.9 (#35/48)

| Benchmark | LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse | Qwen3.6-27B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMMU | Coming soon | 82.9% | Coming soon |
| MMMU-Pro | Coming soon | 75.8% | Coming soon |
| RealWorldQA | Coming soon | 84.1% | Coming soon |
| DynaMath | Coming soon | 85.6% | Coming soon |
| MStar | Coming soon | 81.4% | Coming soon |
| SimpleVQA | Coming soon | 56.1% | Coming soon |
| CharXiv | Coming soon | 78.4% | Coming soon |
| CC-OCR | Coming soon | 81.2% | Coming soon |
| CountBench | Coming soon | 97.8% | Coming soon |
| RefCOCO (avg) | Coming soon | 92.5% | Coming soon |
| ERQA | Coming soon | 62.5% | Coming soon |
| Video-MME (with subtitle) | Coming soon | 87.7% | Coming soon |
| VideoMMMU | Coming soon | 84.4% | Coming soon |
| MLVU (M-Avg) | Coming soon | 86.6% | Coming soon |
| V* | Coming soon | 94.7% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Coming soon
- LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.6-27B public-lane score: 74.1 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)

### Knowledge

- Winner: Coming soon
- LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.6-27B public-lane score: 46.6 (Estimated · #101/183)

| Benchmark | LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse | Qwen3.6-27B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMLU | 85.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro | 79.2% | 86.2% | Qwen3.6-27B |
| CMMLU | 84.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| C-Eval | 85.8% | 91.4% | Qwen3.6-27B |
| GPQA-D | 69.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Redux | Coming soon | 93.5% | Coming soon |
| SuperGPQA | Coming soon | 66% | Coming soon |
| GPQA | Coming soon | 87.8% | Coming soon |
| HLE | Coming soon | 24% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Coming soon
- LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.6-27B public-lane score: 82.4 (#51/123)

### Mathematics

- Winner: Coming soon
- LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.6-27B public-lane score: 72.8 (Unranked · 5 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse | Qwen3.6-27B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MATH-500 | 95.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| AIME26 | 65.7% | 94.1% | Qwen3.6-27B |
| HMMT Feb 2026 | 40.5% | 84.3% | Qwen3.6-27B |
| IMOAnswerBench | 49.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2025 | Coming soon | 93.8% | Coming soon |
| HMMT Nov 2025 | Coming soon | 90.7% | Coming soon |
| MMAnswerBench | Coming soon | 80.8% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse or Qwen3.6-27B?

Qwen3.6-27B 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 Qwen3.6-27B cover on BenchLM?

Qwen3.6-27B currently has 38 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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