LongCat-2.5 costs $0.30 per million input tokens. Claude Opus 5 lists at $5.00. I animated the numbers from Meituan's own launch table. It leads one agent test by 1.5 points and trails on two coding tests. In our worked example, the cheap model costs more once you count the human fixes. Meituan pitches it for visual coding and design work. That's my work too: I design the site, build the agent behind it, and send each job to the model that does it well. If you were building your next site or agent, which model would you trust with it?