Who ranks #1 on the tau2-bench Airline leaderboard?
As of August 31, 2026, LongCat-Flash-Thinking-2601 by Meituan ranks #1 on tau2-bench Airline at 76.5%. API pricing is $0.30/M input and $1.20/M output.
As of August 31, 2026, LongCat-Flash-Thinking-2601 is #1 for tau2-bench Airline at 76.5%. Ranked by the tau2-bench Airline score 23 models in this index have a published tau2-bench Airline score. tau2-bench Airline leaderboard: rank models by tau2-bench Airline next to live API token prices.
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As of August 31, 2026, LongCat-Flash-Thinking-2601 by Meituan is #1 for tau2-bench Airline at 76.5%. Ranked by the tau2-bench Airline score This board also tracks tau2-bench Airline. Next on the same board: Nova 2 Omni and LongCat-Flash-Thinking. This tau2-bench airline leaderboard ranks models by tau2-bench Airline. Scores come from public evals. Prices are the live API rates in the table above.
Sources: OpenAI API pricing (https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/pricing); Anthropic Claude API pricing (https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/about-claude/pricing); Gemini API pricing (https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/pricing)
| Rank | Model | tau2-bench Airline | Input /M | Output /M |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | LongCat-Flash-Thinking-2601 | 76.5% | $0.30 | $1.20 |
| 2 | Nova 2 Omni | 68.8% | $0.30 | $2.50 |
| 3 | LongCat-Flash-Thinking | 67.5% | $0.30 | $1.20 |
| 4 | GPT-5.1 | 67% | $1.25 | $10.00 |
| 5 | GPT-5.1 Instant | 67% | $1.25 | $10.00 |
| 6 | GPT-5.1 Thinking | 67% | $1.25 | $10.00 |
| 7 | Nova 2 Pro | 65.2% | $1.25 | $10.00 |
| 8 | Nova 2 Lite | 64.8% | $0.30 | $2.50 |
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As of August 31, 2026, LongCat-Flash-Thinking-2601 by Meituan ranks #1 on tau2-bench Airline at 76.5%. API pricing is $0.30/M input and $1.20/M output.
The current tau2-bench Airline ranking as of August 31, 2026 is 1. LongCat-Flash-Thinking-2601 at 76.5%; 2. Nova 2 Omni at 68.8%; 3. LongCat-Flash-Thinking at 67.5%.
Nemotron 3 Nano (30B A3B) is the cheapest scored model on this tau2-bench airline leaderboard at $0.06/M input and $0.24/M output ($0.30 blended). LongCat-Flash-Thinking-2601 still leads tau2-bench Airline at 76.5%.
Not automatically. LongCat-Flash-Thinking-2601 leads tau2-bench Airline, but a cheaper scored model can be the better production choice if the quality gap is small. Use the table to weigh tau2-bench Airline against input/output price, context window, and related evals.
Scores and API prices on this page are refreshed from published evals and provider rates. The snapshot is labeled August 31, 2026. Treat it as a current index, not a one-off blog post.
tau2-bench Airline is a public LLM eval (the tau2-bench Airline score). This page ranks models that have published a score, next to live API prices.
This page is the tau2-bench Airline leaderboard. Models are sorted by tau2-bench Airline, with input and output token prices on the same row so you can weigh score against cost. Official boards often omit price; that comparison is the point of this index.
Official eval pages own the methodology. This page keeps the published tau2-bench Airline score next to live API $/M so you can pick a production SKU, not only a trophy number.