LongCat Flash Lite

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LongCat Flash Lite is a non-thinking sparse language checkpoint with an n-gram embedding table for coding and agent workloads.

Key specifications

Specification score
20.2
Context window
262.14K
License
MIT
Parameters
68.5B

The specification score summarizes recorded features and limits. It is not a benchmark result.

Inputs and outputs

Recorded modality support shows what this model can accept and produce. An undocumented modality is shown as unknown rather than assumed to be unsupported.

Accepts

  • Text input

Produces

  • Text output

Capabilities

StreamingOpen weights

What is LongCat Flash Lite?

LongCat Flash Lite is a non-thinking sparse language checkpoint with an n-gram embedding table for coding and agent workloads.

A direct-response LongCat model

Flash Lite has 68.5B total parameters and approximately 3B active parameters according to the model card. It uses a large n-gram embedding table alongside sparse experts. The release is non-thinking, so it is a candidate for applications that prefer direct responses without a separate reasoning stream.

Context and weight memory

The model card describes a 256K context through YaRN. Follow that serving configuration rather than inferring usable context solely from a configuration file’s position field. The embedding table accounts for a substantial part of the weights, making total memory planning important even though few experts activate per token.

Compare short and long tasks

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Deployment choices

Use the checkpoint’s chat template and a serving implementation that supports its n-gram component. The MIT licence applies to weights and source. A later Sparse variant changes the attention implementation and context support; it should be evaluated as a separate deployment choice. This local checkpoint does not define a managed token price, so hardware, concurrency and operating costs need a separate estimate.

Sources

Model documentation

How to evaluate LongCat Flash Lite

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Tasks and inputs

LongCat Flash Lite is listed for Text generation. It accepts text and produces text. Use the publisher’s input format and preprocessing for your chosen deployment.

Capacity and cost

Documented limits: 262.14K context. Measure a completed task using the prompts, documents and tools your application will use. Include reasoning and retries in the result.

Choosing a deployment

The weights are downloadable under MIT. Check runtime support and size the complete model and working context for your expected concurrency.

Frequently asked questions

Yes. The linked publisher repository supplies the weights or reference inference files and explains the supported runtime.

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