LongCat 2.5 alternatives for the EU.
LongCat 2.5 by Meituan is available in the EU. Here are 8 similar tools in the same space, 8 of them verified available.
Available in EUUpdated
At a glance
| Tool | EU status | Pricing | Open source | Released | Mentions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LongCat 2.5 (this) | Available in EU | Open source | No | 4 Nov 2026 | 2 |
| LongCat 2.0 | Available in EU | Open source | Unknown | n/a | 1 |
| MiniMax M3 | Available in EU | Open source | No | 2 Jun 2026 | 4 |
| Inkling Small | Available in EU | Open source | No | 27 Jul 2026 | 2 |
| GLM 5.3 | Available in EU | Open source | No | Aug 2026 | 8 |
| Ornith 1.5 | Available in EU | Open source | Unknown | n/a | 1 |
| Qwen 3.8 Max | Available in EU | Open source | No | n/a | 8 |
| Kimi K2.5 | Available in EU | Open source | No | Jan 2026 | 1 |
| Agents A1 | Available in EU | Open source | Unknown | n/a | 1 |
The alternatives, closest match first
Meituan's open-weights 1.6T-parameter mixture-of-experts LLM (48B active), aimed at agentic coding and reasoning tasks.
By Meituan. 1 mention in creator videos.
Open-weights native multimodal MoE model from MiniMax, ~428B parameters (~23B active) with 1M-token context.
By MiniMax. 4 mentions in creator videos.
Open-weights multimodal MoE model (276B total, 12B active) from Thinking Machines; text, image and audio in, text out.
By Thinking Machines. 2 mentions in creator videos.
Z.ai's open-weights 753B MoE language model, a post-trained GLM-5.2 aimed at coding, agentic tasks and cybersecurity.
By Z.ai. 8 mentions in creator videos.
Open model family (9B dense, 35B MoE, 397B MoE) trained with a self-improvement loop for reasoning, coding and agentic tasks.
Alibaba's open-weights 2.4T-parameter MoE language model (95B active) from the Qwen3.8 family, with a hosted Max version.
By Alibaba. 8 mentions in creator videos.
Moonshot AI's open-weights 1T-parameter MoE multimodal agentic model with 256K context, vision input and agent swarm.
By Moonshot AI. 1 mention in creator videos.
35B Mixture-of-Experts open-weights model from InternScience for long-horizon agentic search, engineering and tool use.
Frequently asked
- Is LongCat 2.5 available in the EU?
- LongCat 2.5 is available in the EU. Weights are downloadable from Hugging Face under the MIT license, which has no EU exclusion. No explicit EU evidence was found for the hosted LongCat Chat or API.
- What is the best alternative to LongCat 2.5 in the EU?
- LongCat 2.0 by Meituan is the closest match we track that EU users can use (available in the eu). Meituan's open-weights 1.6T-parameter mixture-of-experts LLM (48B active), aimed at agentic coding and reasoning tasks.
- How are these alternatives chosen?
- We compare tools by meaning (embeddings of their descriptions), keep those in the same category, and show only tools whose EU status is available or limited. Closest match first.
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