recursive: Flint (free)
Flint (free) is a reasoning model from recursive released on Oct 21, 2026. It reads text and writes text, with a 262K token context window and up to 236K tokens per reply.
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It costs $0 per million input tokens and $0 per million output tokens.
It supports tool calling.
- Modalities
- In / out price
- $0 / $0 per 1M
- Context
- 262K
- Max output
- 236K
- Released
- Oct 21, 2026
- Knowledge cutoff
- n/a
- Tool calling
- Structured output
- Reasoning
- Prompt caching
- Open weights
- Free to use
Flint (free) pricing
USD, as listed on Oct 22, 2026. Most bills are input heavy, so the cached input rate matters as much as the headline price.
| Input | $0 / 1M tokens | |
|---|---|---|
| Output | $0 / 1M tokens |
What Flint (free) costs per month
Pick a workload close to yours or type your own volumes.
Supported request parameters
What you can set when you call Flint (free) through an OpenAI compatible API.
- Tools
tools - Reasoning
reasoning - Temperature
temperature
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Flint (free) questions
How much does the Flint (free) API cost?
$0 per million input tokens and $0 per million output tokens. The estimator on this page turns that into a monthly bill for your own workload.
What is the context window of Flint (free)?
262,144 tokens of input, and it can write up to 235,929 tokens in one reply. As a rough guide, a million tokens is around 750,000 English words.
Does Flint (free) support tool calling?
Yes. It accepts tool definitions, which is what an agent needs to call your APIs.
Is Flint (free) open source?
No. recursive serves it through an API only, so you cannot download the weights or host it yourself.
When was Flint (free) released?
Oct 21, 2026.
Catalog data from models.dev (MIT licensed), refreshed daily, last on Oct 22, 2026. The summary is written from these facts.