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Recursive Flint
Open-weight mixture-of-experts coding model (40B total, ~2.5B active) built for fast agentic coding on local hardware; plugs into OpenCode, Pi, Cline and OpenHands.
💲 Free weights on Hugging Face under Apache 2.0; run locally with rec, Ollama, LM Studio, llama.cpp, etc. Hosted Flint-40B available on OpenCode's free tier (capacity and rate limits apply). Source: huggingface.co (checked Oct 23, 2026).
Pros & cons
👍 Pros
- Runs offline on a laptop, so code stays private and there are no per-token fees
- Fast: 125+ tokens/sec on an M4 Pro MacBook Pro claimed with Recursive's rec engine
- Strong self-reported scores for its size (74.2% SWE-bench Verified, 54.9% Terminal-Bench 2.1)
👎 Cons
- Benchmarks are self-reported
- Needs more explicit guidance than large closed coding models; rec engine needs an M4 Pro+ Mac with 48 GB RAM
Latest release
Flint launches
Recursive's first model, built largely by its automated 'Eureka Machine' research system in under four months, released free under Apache 2.0 with up to 512k context (256k recommended). Source ↗
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