LongCat-2.0 (Meituan) Pricing
All plans and pricing as of 2026-07-05
Self-hosted (open weights)
- ✓MIT license -- commercial use permitted
- ✓Weights on Hugging Face (meituan-longcat/LongCat-2.0)
- ✓1.6T total params -- datacenter-scale deployment only
API
- ✓Pricing as reported by VentureBeat at launch -- verify on vendor platform before building
- ✓Also available via OpenRouter (previously as stealth 'Owl Alpha')
Is LongCat-2.0 (Meituan) Worth the Price?
Value Score: 9/10
Overall Score: 7.9/10 · Teams that want frontier-class open weights for audit, fine-tuning research, or API use at aggressive pricing -- especially agentic-coding workloads where its SWE-bench Pro showing and 1M context matter.
LongCat-2.0 is the most consequential open-weights release since GLM-5.2 -- not because it beats the closed frontier (Meituan's own table shows Opus 4.8 comfortably ahead) but because of what it represents: a 1.6T-parameter MIT-licensed model trained end-to-end on Chinese ASICs, from a company best known for food delivery, quietly topping OpenRouter under a pseudonym before launch. If you consume models by API, the reported $0.75/$2.95 pricing makes it worth benchmarking against your current stack. If you're tracking the open-vs-closed race, this is the data point that says frontier-scale training no longer requires Nvidia -- or a US lab.
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How LongCat-2.0 (Meituan) Pricing Compares
| Tool | Free Tier | Starting Price | Value Score | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LongCat-2.0 (Meituan)(this tool) | Yes | $0 | 9/10 | 7.9 |
| Qwen (Alibaba) | Yes | $0 | 10/10 | 8.8 |
| MiniMax M3 | Yes | $0 | 9.5/10 | 8.4 |
| Gemma 4 (Google) | Yes | $0 | 10/10 | 8.3 |
| IBM Granite 4.0 | Yes | $0 | 9.5/10 | 8.2 |
| Kimi K2.6 (Moonshot) | Yes | $0 | 8.5/10 | 8.1 |