LongCat 2.5 Preview Free

by MeituanChat

Meituan's multimodal reasoning model for coding and agent tasks, with image understanding and a 1M-token context window

Context
1.05M tokens
Max output
131,072 tokens
Released
2026-09-25
Weights
Closed

meituan/longcat-2-5-preview · also seen as longcat-2.5-preview-free

Specifications

Full facts as recorded, incl. what is unknown.

Released
2026-09-25
Weights
Closed
Input
Text, Image
Output
Text
Context window
1,048,576 max across endpoints
Max output
131,072
Providers
0 + 4 gateways, not counted as providers
Epoch Capabilities Index
not evaluated
Direct price range
$0.30 in at Vercel AI Gateway, via gateway, fees not verified
More details
Last updated
2026-09-26
Knowledge cutoff

Capabilities

Across all endpoints: supported if any endpoint supports it.

  • Tool calling
  • Parallel toolsunknown
  • Structured output
  • Reasoning
  • Image input
  • PDF input
  • Audio input
  • Audio outputunknown
  • Video input
  • Prompt cachingunknown
  • Web searchunknown
  • Computer useunknown
  • System messagesunknown
  • Assistant prefillunknown
  • Temperature
  • Streamingunknown
  • Attachments

Endpoints

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