DeepSeek vs Meituan LongCat-2.0
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
DeepSeek
China's frontier open-weight LLM lab — now shipping the V4 family at a...
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Meituan LongCat-2.0
1.6T open MoE coding agent trained wholly on Chinese chips
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| RECATOOLS Score | 8.2 / 10 | 7.8 / 10 |
| Capability | — | |
| Value for money | — | |
| Ease of use | — | |
| ASEAN readiness | — | |
| API quality | — | |
| Pricing | Open Source | Open Source |
| Free tier | Free access at chat.deepseek.com; open weights self-hostable | Free — open-weight download (MIT license), self-host |
| Paid from | V4-Flash $0.14/$0.28; V4-Pro $0.435/$0.87 per 1M tokens (now permanent, not promo) | — |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✓ | ✓ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | ~130M monthly active users (late 2025) | — |
| Founded | 2023 | 2010 |
| Maker | High-Flyer | Meituan |
| Verdict | DeepSeek is the Chinese lab whose open-weight models repeatedly shock the market by matching far costlier frontier systems at a fraction of the price. The 2026 V4 family (V4-Pro and the cheaper V4-Flash, both 1M-context)... |
The genuinely notable thing here isn't a benchmark — it's the supply chain. Meituan says LongCat-2.0 was trained and run entirely on roughly 50,000 domestic accelerators (analysts point at Huawei Ascend or Cambricon) wit... |
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