Meituan LongCat-2.0 vs Qwen
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Meituan LongCat-2.0
1.6T open MoE coding agent trained wholly on Chinese chips
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Qwen
Alibaba's LLM family: open Qwen3 weights plus closed Qwen3.7-Max
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.8 / 10 | 8.6 / 10 |
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| Value for money | — | |
| Ease of use | — | |
| ASEAN readiness | — | |
| API quality | — | |
| Pricing | Open Source | Open Source |
| Free tier | Free — open-weight download (MIT license), self-host | Open-weight Qwen3 models free to download and self-host |
| Paid from | — | Qwen3 Max preview API priced per-token on Alibaba Cloud |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✓ | ✓ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | — | Consumer app ~203M MAU (April 2026), #3 globally |
| Founded | 2010 | — |
| Maker | Meituan | Alibaba Group |
| Verdict | 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... |
Qwen is Alibaba's flagship LLM family and a cornerstone of the open-weight ecosystem — the Qwen3 line ships freely on Hugging Face from small dense models up to large MoE sizes. Capability is frontier-adjacent on coding,... |
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