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Flint
● liveLive — Oct 21; Recursive's own launch post (recursive.com/updates/introducing-recursive-flint) and model card (RecursiveSI/flint): a 39.8B-total / ~2.5B-active mixture-of-experts coding model built to run locally, Apache 2.0 weights on Hugging Face; vendor-reported 74.2% SWE-bench Verified, 89.7% SWE-bench Pro v2 and 54.9% Terminal-Bench 2.1 (read Oct 26); context: the card documents a 262,144-token configuration, the post says up to 512k with 256k recommended; our sweep read it free on two gateways inside four hours: opencode/flint-40b-free (models.dev, Oct 21 18:24 UTC) and recursive/flint-v1.0:free (OpenRouter, 22:08 UTC), both $0/$0 per 1M at 262,144 ctx. On the board as live since 2026-10-21 — the watchers keep tracking it: lineup changes, pricing moves and deprecations all alert.
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Flint: quick answers
Is Flint out?
Yes. Flint is live and has been since October 21, 2026.
When was Flint released?
October 21, 2026.
Who makes Flint?
Recursive.
Is Flint open weights?
Yes. Flint is released with open weights.
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