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Recursive · Released Oct 21, 2026

Flint

Open-weight mixture-of-experts model with about 2.5B active parameters for local coding agents.

  • Open weights
  • Reasoning
  • Tool calling
Capability
—No ECI score yet
Input
—No listed price
Output
—No listed price
Context
262K262K max output
Pricing

What it costs

No per-token price is published for this model yet.

No per-token price is listed for this model on models.dev.

Capability

Independent benchmarks

Epoch AI has not published a Capabilities Index score for Flint yet.

Specifications

The details

Lab
Recursive
Released
Oct 21, 2026
Knowledge cutoff
Jun 2026
Context window
262,144 tokens
Max output
262,144 tokens
Inputs
Text
Output
Text
Reasoning
Always on
Tool calling
Yes
Structured output
No
Availability
1 API providerlisted on models.dev
Questions

About Flint

How much does Flint cost?

Flint has no published per-token API price on models.dev yet.

What is the context window of Flint?

Flint accepts up to 262,144 tokens per request and can write up to 262,144 tokens in one response.

How good is Flint?

Epoch AI has not published a Capabilities Index score for Flint yet.

Is Flint open source?

Yes. Recursive publishes the weights under the Apache-2.0 licence, so it can be downloaded and self-hosted.

What inputs does Flint support?

Flint accepts text and replies in text. It is a reasoning model, supports tool calling.

When was Flint released?

Recursive released Flint on Oct 21, 2026. Its training data runs to Jun 2026.

What are the best alternatives to Flint?

The closest current models from other labs on capability, price and release date are Kimi K3.1 Pro (Moonshot AI, $2.00 / $10.00), MiniMax-M3.1-Flash (MiniMax, $0.15 / $0.60), Mercury 3 (Inception, $0.10 / $0.35) and Nemotron 3.5 Super 120B A12B (NVIDIA, $0.20 / $0.50).