LongCat 2.0 API Provider Benchmarking & Analysis
This analysis is intended to support you in choosing the best API provider of LongCat 2.0 for your use-case.
Fastest
SiliconFlow (FP8)Output speed
Total 2 providers
Lowest Latency
SiliconFlow (FP8)Time to first answer token
Total 2 providers
Lowest Price
LongCatSiliconFlow (FP8)Blended price (per 1M tokens)
Total 2 providers
LongCat 2.0 is available through 2 API providers, each offering different performance characteristics and pricing. Below is a comparison of the key metrics across providers.
- For output speed, the top providers are SiliconFlow (FP8) (52.1 t/s).
- For latency, SiliconFlow (FP8) (41.70s) offer the lowest time to first answer token.
- For pricing, LongCat (0.18) and SiliconFlow (FP8) (0.46) offer the lowest blended prices per 1M tokens.
- SiliconFlow (FP8) offers the best performance with both the highest speed and lowest latency. For cost optimization, LongCat provides the most competitive pricing.
Highlights
Update: Default performance benchmarking workload has updated to 10k input tokens to better reflect production use cases. You can still select different workloads above.
Pricing
Pricing: Cache Hit, Input, and Output
Pricing: Blended Price
Pricing: Cache Discount
Output Speed vs. Price
Speed
Measured by Output Speed (tokens per second)
Output Speed: LongCat 2.0
Latency vs. Output Speed
Latency
Measured by Time (seconds) to First Token
Time to First Answer Token
End-to-End Response Time
Seconds to output 500 tokens, calculated based on time to first token, 'thinking' time for reasoning models, and output speed
End-to-End Response Time
Key Comparison Metrics & API Features
| LongCat | 1M | Open | $0.06 | -- | -- | -- | -- | ||
| SiliconFlow | 262k | Open | $0.15 | 49 | 3.48 | 54.93 | 41.16 | ||
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about LongCat 2.0 providers
LongCat 2.0 is available through 2 API providers: LongCat and SiliconFlow (FP8). Each provider offers different performance characteristics and pricing.
LongCat 2.0 is currently available through 2 API providers that we benchmark and track.
The fastest provider for LongCat 2.0 by output speed is SiliconFlow (FP8) (52.1 t/s). Output speed measures how quickly tokens are generated after the model starts responding.
The provider with the lowest time to first answer token for LongCat 2.0 is SiliconFlow (FP8) (41.70s). Lower latency means faster initial response time.
The most affordable providers for LongCat 2.0 by blended price are LongCat ($0.18 per 1M tokens) and SiliconFlow (FP8) ($0.46 per 1M tokens). Blended price uses a 7:2:1 cache hit/input/output token ratio.
The providers with the lowest input token pricing for LongCat 2.0 are LongCat ($0.30 per 1M input tokens) and SiliconFlow (FP8) ($0.75 per 1M input tokens).
The providers with the lowest output token pricing for LongCat 2.0 are LongCat ($1.20 per 1M output tokens) and SiliconFlow (FP8) ($2.95 per 1M output tokens).
Prices for LongCat 2.0 vary up to 2.5x across providers. The most affordable is LongCat at $0.18 per 1M tokens, while SiliconFlow (FP8) charges $0.46 per 1M tokens.
1 of 2 providers support JSON mode for LongCat 2.0: SiliconFlow (FP8).
1 of 2 providers support function calling for LongCat 2.0: SiliconFlow (FP8).
For LongCat 2.0, SiliconFlow (FP8) offers the best performance with highest speed and lowest latency. For cost optimization, LongCat provides the most competitive pricing.
When choosing a provider for LongCat 2.0, consider: output speed (for throughput-intensive tasks), latency (for interactive applications requiring quick first responses), pricing (for cost-sensitive workloads), and API features like JSON mode or function calling.
Yes, provider performance can vary over time due to infrastructure changes, load balancing, and updates. We continuously benchmark all providers and display historical performance trends in the "Over Time" charts.
For information about LongCat 2.0's intelligence, capabilities, modalities, and how it compares to other models, see the model overview page. View model overview