Alternatives to LongCat 2.0

These tools sit near LongCat 2.0. Compare features and pricing before you switch.

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Alternatives

If LongCat 2.0 is not the right fit, consider these alternatives:

DeepSeek V4 Flash: A cheaper, widely hosted open-weight agent model.
GLM-5.3: Zhipu's coding plan model family.
Qwen3 8 27B: An open-weight MoE from Alibaba.

DeepSeek V4 Flash

Models

DeepSeek small agent model: 284B/13B MoE, 1M context, MIT weights, $0.14/$0.28 per 1M tokens.

#DeepSeek

45000000DR: 95AS: 88

GLM-5.3

Models

Zhipu coding model on GLM Coding Plan. Token API not on the public table yet. Not $18-only.

#Zhipu AI

5000000DR: 88AS: 90

Qwen3.8-27B

Models

Alibaba's open-weight 27B dense companion to Qwen3.8-Max: Apache 2.0 license, multimodal image-text input, built for local deployment and small-batch inference.

#Alibaba

20000000DR: 90AS: 95