OpenRouter Channel Data: LongCat-2.0 Pricing, Measured Performance, and Third-Party Benchmarks (Artificial Analysis)

One-sentence takeaway

The OpenRouter page provides a third-party view beyond the official figures: LongCat-2.0 is listed at $0.30/$1.20 per 1M tokens (with a 60% discount at collection time), while the actual weighted transaction price for input was only $0.03872/M (88.9% cache-hit rate); throughput was P50 29 tok/s, three-day availability 99.93%, and tool-call error rate 0.90%, with real traffic mainly coming from Hermes Agent (7.77B tokens) and Claude Code (3.31B tokens).

Key data (collected 2026-08-18)

Model and pricing

• Model ID: meituan/longcat-2.0 (page version 20260720); 48B active / 1.6T total parameters MoE; 1M context; text only.

• List price: IN $0.30 / OUT $1.20 per 1M (60% off for a limited time); launch price $0.30/$1.20 (confirmed the same day by r/AIToolsPerformance).

• Actual transactions: weighted-average input $0.03872/M, output $1.20/M (caching and discounts make the actual price far lower than the list price); provider AtlasCloud, cache-hit rate 88.92%, token share 100% (single provider).

• The price-history chart shows the effective input price fluctuating between $0 and $0.08/1M from July 24 to August 18.

Performance and availability

• Throughput: P50 29 tok/s (all-time average); P99 54 / P95 46 / P90 42 / P75 35 tok/s.

• Latency: P50 1.82s; E2E P50 13.75s (P99 159.74s).

• Tool-call error rate: 0.90% (AtlasCloud).

• Uptime over 3 days: 100.00%; availability: 99.93%; OpenRouter's own availability: 99.85%.

Third-party benchmarks (as displayed by Artificial Analysis)

Real-world application traffic (Apps ranking, reflecting production use)

1. Hermes Agent — 7.77B tokens (open-source Agent from Nous Research)

2. Claude Code — 3.31B tokens

3. pi — 2.27B tokens

4. Halluna — 1.84B tokens

5. TokenTool — 1.49B tokens

Review and scope

• The data is platform real-time telemetry and can be checked against the original URL at any time; however, discounts, availability, and benchmark scores change over time, so citations should include the collection date.

• Difference from official pricing: OpenRouter's list price ($0.30/$1.20) and the official direct-connection price (¥5/¥20 per 1M at the original price) are not the same billing system, and cache-hit pricing on OpenRouter substantially dilutes the actual cost; they cannot be directly converted and compared.

• Artificial Analysis's Coding Index 45.3 (better than 49% of models) is clearly below the impression created by the official SWE-bench Pro score of 59.5. The benchmark sets differ, and the third-party index does not rank LongCat particularly highly, which is an important correction when judging "which tasks it suits."

• A single provider (AtlasCloud) means there is no multi-route redundancy; the 99.93% availability is a snapshot covering roughly the past three days.

• The free endpoint meituan/longcat-2.0:free ($0.00/1M) also exists in the OpenRouter and Nous Portal directories and is an entry point for low-cost trials (see Prompt Directory 03 and 06).