LongCat 2.0 API pricing
meituan · Budget price tier · MIT · released 2026-07. Prices in USD per 1 million tokens. Data snapshot: 2026-11-12.
Promotional rate. The price we quote is 60% off AtlasCloud's standard $0.75 per 1M input tokens and $3.00 per 1M output tokens, and a promotion can end without notice.
A support ticket workload of 100K requests a month costs $105.00 on LongCat 2.0; the next cheaper model in the Budget price tier for this workload, Llama 4 Maverick, does it for $102.50. LongCat 2.0 has held the same list price since 2026-08-15 and is the 127th cheapest of 160 models in the Budget price tier. Only one host, AtlasCloud, sells it, so there is no second price to shop. No Arena score is published for it, so it carries no Efficiency score and cannot hold the FinOps Friendly badge.
- Input: $0.30 per 1M tokens
- Output: $1.20 per 1M tokens
- Batch API (in/out): Not published
- Prompt-cache read: $0.006 per 1M tokens
- Context window: 1M tokens
- Arena ELO: Not published
Market position
On blended price ($0.93 per 1M tokens at 30% input, 70% output) it is cheaper than 19% of models in the Budget price tier: 127th cheapest of 160, tied with 3 others. Across every price tier it is cheaper than 57% of priced text models in the catalogue: 127th cheapest of 303, tied with 3 others. No Arena score has been published for LongCat 2.0, so this page does not rank it on quality and OptimNow's quality bars do not apply to it. 77 of the 160 models we list in the Budget price tier carry one. An unranked model is unmeasured, not poor: the benchmark needs votes, and a recent release has not had time to collect them.
Licence, size and capabilities
LongCat 2.0 is open source: its weights are published under MIT, an OSI-approved licence with no field-of-use limit, so it can be self-hosted as well as bought by the token. Its published size is 1.6T parameters. Listed capabilities: Text, Reasoning, Agents. Filling its 1M context window once costs $0.30 in input tokens at list price.
Pricing by host
A host is a company that runs the model and sells it by the token: the model maker, a cloud platform like Amazon Bedrock, Azure or Vertex, or an independent host. One model, several hosts, and often several prices. This model is sold by 1 host. The price we quote elsewhere on this page is marked. We quote one host's rate so that models stay comparable; it is not a recommendation to buy there.
AtlasCloud is the only host with a published rate, $0.30 input / $1.20 output per 1M tokens, which is the price we quote. It serves a quantized fp8 build, which is not the same product as the full-precision model.
| Host | Input $/1M | Output $/1M | Precision |
|---|---|---|---|
| AtlasCloud (price we quote) | $0.30 | $1.20 | fp8 |
List prices as published on 2026-11-12, via OpenRouter. Negotiated rates, committed-use discounts and provisioned capacity are not shown. AtlasCloud's listing is a promotional rate: 60% off its standard rate.
Monthly cost at 100K requests, by business use case
From the after-discounts figure (prompt caching on the cached input share, batch API for async workloads, only where meituan publishes those rates), which assumes you implement both, to the list price. One figure means no discount is published.
| Use case | Tokens (in/out) | Monthly (after discounts – list) |
|---|---|---|
| Support Ticket | 1,500 / 500 | $79 – $105 |
| Knowledge Q&A | 2,000 / 800 | $115 – $156 |
| Meeting Summary | 10,000 / 1,200 | $415 – $444 |
| Marketing Content | 2,500 / 1,800 | $276 – $291 |
| Coding Task | 3,000 / 2,000 | $286 – $330 |
| Invoice Processing | 1,500 / 600 | $104 – $117 |
| Call Summary | 2,000 / 700 | $138 – $144 |
| Agent Workflow | 6,000 / 3,000 | $417 – $540 |
Price history
LongCat 2.0 has been in our daily price archive since tracking began on 2026-08-15, when it listed at $0.30 input / $1.20 output per 1M tokens. No list price change since tracking began on 2026-08-15. Last checked against the 2026-11-12 snapshot.
Alternatives to LongCat 2.0
LongCat 2.0 carries no Arena score, so this page cannot place it against models of comparable quality. The alternatives below are its nearest neighbours on price in the Budget price tier.
- Next cheaper model in the Budget price tier: GPT-5.6 Luna (OpenAI) at $0.90 blended, 3% less.
- Next more expensive: GPT-5.4 Nano (OpenAI) at $0.935 blended, 1% more.
Common questions about LongCat 2.0 pricing
- How much does LongCat 2.0 cost?
- LongCat 2.0 costs $0.30 per 1M input tokens and $1.20 per 1M output tokens at AtlasCloud, the host whose rate we quote. AtlasCloud serves a quantized fp8 build, which is not the same product as the full-precision model. Prices as listed on 2026-11-12.
- Which host is cheapest for LongCat 2.0?
- AtlasCloud is the only host with a published rate, $0.30 input / $1.20 output per 1M tokens, which is the price we quote. It serves a quantized fp8 build, which is not the same product as the full-precision model. Host rates as listed on 2026-11-12.
- Does LongCat 2.0 offer batch or cached pricing?
- Yes, for prompt caching only. Cache reads cost $0.006 per 1M tokens, as listed on 2026-11-12. No batch pricing is published.
- What would LongCat 2.0 cost per month?
- With the Support Ticket profile (1,500 input and 500 output tokens per request), 100,000 requests a month cost about $105 on LongCat 2.0 at the list price quoted on 2026-11-12.
- Can LongCat 2.0 be self-hosted?
- Yes. LongCat 2.0 is open source: its weights are published under MIT, an OSI-approved licence with no field-of-use limit, so it can be self-hosted as well as bought by the token.
- Has the price of LongCat 2.0 changed?
- LongCat 2.0 has been in our daily price archive since tracking began on 2026-08-15, when it listed at $0.30 input / $1.20 output per 1M tokens. No list price change since tracking began on 2026-08-15. Last checked against the 2026-11-12 snapshot.
Its weights are published, which changes what you may run yourself: the cost gap between open weights and proprietary APIs.
These are list prices. Your real cost also depends on caching and batching, negotiated discounts, marketplace agreements, and the contracts you already have. OptimNow audits exactly that.
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