Which is cheaper, LongCat-Flash-Thinking or Nova Pro?
As of August 21, 2026, LongCat-Flash-Thinking is 63% cheaper on blended LLM API pricing. LongCat-Flash-Thinking costs $0.30 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens ($1.50 blended 1M-in + 1M-out). Nova Pro costs $0.80 / $3.20 per million tokens ($4.00 blended). Sources: https://anotherwrapper.com/tools/llm-pricing and https://anotherwrapper.com/tools/llm-pricing. The cheapest LLM for your app still depends on how many output tokens you generate.
How much does LongCat-Flash-Thinking vs Nova Pro cost per million tokens?
LongCat-Flash-Thinking Meituan API pricing is $0.30 input and $1.20 output per million tokens via Meituan. Nova Pro Amazon API pricing is $0.80 input and $3.20 output per million tokens via Amazon. Use those four numbers, not ChatGPT Plus or Claude Pro subscription prices, when you are comparing APIs.
Which is better for coding, LongCat-Flash-Thinking or Nova Pro?
LongCat-Flash-Thinking has a published SWE-bench Verified score of 59.4%. Nova Pro does not have that eval on this page yet.
What is the context window for LongCat-Flash-Thinking vs Nova Pro?
LongCat-Flash-Thinking supports a 128K token context window, while Nova Pro supports 300K tokens. Nova Pro offers a larger context window. Filling a larger window bills more input tokens, so the cheaper-per-million model can still cost more on long documents.
Which model performs better on benchmarks, LongCat-Flash-Thinking or Nova Pro?
LongCat-Flash-Thinking leads on 1 of 1 shared benchmarks versus Nova Pro's 0 wins. Check the comparison table for GPQA Diamond, SWE-bench, MMLU, HLE, and the other evals we track. Token price and benchmark score together are the usual LLM comparison, not either number alone.
Is LongCat-Flash-Thinking or Nova Pro better for production use?
Both LongCat-Flash-Thinking and Nova Pro are production API models. For cost-sensitive production traffic, LongCat-Flash-Thinking has better economics on the blended 1M-in + 1M-out scale. For maximum capability, weight the benchmark table for your domain. Many production stacks route cheap models for drafts and a frontier model for the hard turn, which is usually cheaper than sending everything to the expensive API.
Can I switch between LongCat-Flash-Thinking and Nova Pro in my app?
Yes. Call LongCat-Flash-Thinking through Meituan and Nova Pro through Amazon with separate API keys, or through a gateway that already wraps both. Keep prompts in tokens, not characters, when you estimate the invoice. AnotherWrapper templates can swap providers without rewriting auth and billing.
How accurate is this LongCat-Flash-Thinking vs Nova Pro pricing data?
List rates are the latest published Meituan API pricing and Amazon API pricing, quoted per million tokens. Official rate sheets: https://anotherwrapper.com/tools/llm-pricing and https://anotherwrapper.com/tools/llm-pricing. Prompt caching, batch APIs, and committed-use discounts can change the invoice. Benchmark scores are from official publications and independent evals, updated as new numbers land.
What is the output token limit for LongCat-Flash-Thinking and Nova Pro?
LongCat-Flash-Thinking supports up to 128K output tokens per request, while Nova Pro supports up to 300K output tokens. Output tokens are usually the expensive half of API pricing, so a higher max output cap is a capability, not a discount.
Which model has better throughput, LongCat-Flash-Thinking or Nova Pro?
LongCat-Flash-Thinking runs at approximately 100 tokens/second while Nova Pro runs at 100 tokens/second. Nova Pro is faster in raw throughput. Throughput (tokens per second) and time-to-first-token are why two models with the same per-million-token price can still feel different in chat and agents.
How do I switch the models in this LongCat-Flash-Thinking vs Nova Pro comparison?
Use the model pickers at the top of this LLM comparison. Search any model in the index and the URL updates. Open LongCat-Flash-Thinking or Nova Pro from the sidebar for the single-model API pricing page, or go back to the LLM pricing table to sort by cheapest blended cost.
