# LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse vs Qwen3.6-35B-A3B

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse and Qwen3.6-35B-A3B across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/longcat-flash-lite-sparse-vs-qwen3-6-35b-a3b
- Last updated: September 10, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 11
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5

## Quick Verdict

Pick Qwen3.6-35B-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

- Qwen3.6-35B-A3B leads overall 43.82 to 0.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is HMMT Feb 2026 in Mathematics, with scores of 40.5% and 83.6%.
- LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse also has the larger context window at 1M.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Meituan | Alibaba |
| Type | Open Weight | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 1M | 262K |
| Overall Score | null | 43.82 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 17 | 41 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $0.00 / $0.00 | N/A |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Coming soon
- LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.6-35B-A3B public-lane score: 40.1 (Estimated · #115/152)

| Benchmark | LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 33.7% | 51.5% | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B |
| VITA-Bench | 21.7% | 35.6% | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B |
| MCP Atlas | 45.6% | 62.8% | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B |
| BrowseComp | 48.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Claw-Eval | Coming soon | 68.7% | Coming soon |
| QwenClawBench | Coming soon | 52.6% | Coming soon |
| QwenWebBench | Coming soon | 1397 | Coming soon |
| τ³-bench results | Coming soon | 67.2% | Coming soon |
| DeepPlanning | Coming soon | 25.9% | Coming soon |
| Toolathlon | Coming soon | 26.9% | Coming soon |
| WideResearch | Coming soon | 60.1% | Coming soon |
| Gert Labs | Coming soon | 42.65% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Coming soon
- LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.6-35B-A3B public-lane score: 44.9 (Estimated · #90/151)

| Benchmark | LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | 68.2% | 73.4% | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B |
| SWE-bench Pro | 40.6% | 49.5% | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B |
| SWE Multilingual | 59.3% | 67.2% | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 33.7% | 51.5% | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B |
| LiveCodeBench | Coming soon | 80.4% | Coming soon |
| NL2Repo | Coming soon | 29.4% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Coming soon
- LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.6-35B-A3B public-lane score: 50.1 (#37/48)

| Benchmark | LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMMU | Coming soon | 81.7% | Coming soon |
| MMMU-Pro | Coming soon | 75.3% | Coming soon |
| RealWorldQA | Coming soon | 85.3% | Coming soon |
| OmniDocBench 1.5 | Coming soon | 89.9% | Coming soon |
| CharXiv | Coming soon | 78% | Coming soon |
| SimpleVQA | Coming soon | 58.9% | Coming soon |
| CC-OCR | Coming soon | 81.9% | Coming soon |
| AI2D_TEST | Coming soon | 92.7% | Coming soon |
| RefCOCO (avg) | Coming soon | 92.0% | Coming soon |
| ODINW13 | Coming soon | 50.8% | Coming soon |
| Video-MME (with subtitle) | Coming soon | 86.6% | Coming soon |
| Video-MME (w/o subtitle) | Coming soon | 82.5% | Coming soon |
| VideoMMMU | Coming soon | 83.7% | Coming soon |
| MLVU (M-Avg) | Coming soon | 86.2% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Coming soon
- LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.6-35B-A3B public-lane score: 70.3 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)

### Knowledge

- Winner: Coming soon
- LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.6-35B-A3B public-lane score: 44.2 (Estimated · #116/183)

| Benchmark | LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMLU | 85.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro | 79.2% | 85.2% | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B |
| CMMLU | 84.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| C-Eval | 85.8% | 90% | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B |
| GPQA-D | 69.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SuperGPQA | Coming soon | 64.7% | Coming soon |
| GPQA | Coming soon | 86% | Coming soon |
| HLE | Coming soon | 21.4% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Coming soon
- LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.6-35B-A3B public-lane score: 78.3 (#57/123)

### Mathematics

- Winner: Coming soon
- LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.6-35B-A3B public-lane score: 71.5 (Unranked · 5 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MATH-500 | 95.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| AIME26 | 65.7% | 92.7% | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B |
| HMMT Feb 2026 | 40.5% | 83.6% | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B |
| IMOAnswerBench | 49.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2025 | Coming soon | 90.7% | Coming soon |
| HMMT Nov 2025 | Coming soon | 89.1% | Coming soon |
| MMAnswerBench | Coming soon | 78.9% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse or Qwen3.6-35B-A3B?

Qwen3.6-35B-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 Qwen3.6-35B-A3B cover on BenchLM?

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B currently has 41 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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