Recursive Flint

Recursive Flint

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About

GLM-5.3-Flash is Z.ai’s natively multimodal model in the GLM-5 series (previously previewed as Ox Alpha), designed to deliver strong coding, agentic, visual, and knowledge-work performance at relatively low inference cost. It uses 320 billion total parameters with 18 billion active parameters, along with a hybrid architecture that combines sparse and linear attention to reduce the cost of long-context processing. The model supports context lengths of up to one million tokens and was trained on a 30-trillion-token multimodal corpus. GLM-5.3-Flash can reason across text, images, documents, interfaces, dashboards, and other visual information while using that feedback to refine its own outputs. Z.ai reports substantial gains over GLM-5.2 on coding and agentic benchmarks, including DeepSWE and AutomationBench, while approaching higher-cost frontier models on several evaluations.

About

Recursive Flint is a 40-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts language model for agentic coding on local hardware. It activates about 2.5 billion parameters per token and supports reasoning, multi-turn tool use, and context windows up to 512,000 tokens. Developers can use Flint with coding agents to inspect codebases, fix bugs, implement features, and write tests while running inference on their own hardware. Its weights are published under the Apache 2.0 license. Flint works with llama.cpp, Ollama, Unsloth, LM Studio, vLLM, and SGLang; Recursive also provides rec, an inference engine optimized for Apple Silicon M4 Pro and M5 Pro/Max. Setup documentation and examples help developers run the model locally. Flint is for developers and technical teams that want to operate and adapt a code-focused model on their own systems.

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Audience

Developers, AI engineers, agent builders, researchers, and organizations that need cost-efficient multimodal reasoning, long-context processing, advanced coding, visual analysis, and autonomous workflow capabilities

Audience

Software developers and technical teams building or using coding agents, especially those seeking to run a coding model locally.

Support

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Pricing

$0.15 per 1M tokens (input)
Input: $0.15 per 1M tokens
Output: $0.50 per 1M tokens
Cached input: $0.03 per 1M tokens
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Reviews/Ratings

Overall 5.0 / 5
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Pros & Cons from Real Users

Pros

  • What makes it exciting is that it seems built for the exact workloads developers care about right now: long-horizon coding, complex reasoning, big-context analysis, and agentic workflows. A million-token context window is especially useful if you want to drop in a large repo, long spec, research corpus, or messy project history and have the model reason across it.

Cons

  • I would treat it as something exciting to test, not something to blindly trust with sensitive work. Even the independent Ox Alpha site warns that messages are processed by the upstream model API, so I would keep secrets, private code, and customer data out of it until there is a clearer owner, model card, privacy policy, and production story.

Training

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Company Information

Z.ai
Founded: 2019
China
z.ai

Company Information

Recursive
Founded: 2026
United States
recursive.com/updates/introducing-recursive-flint

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Categories

Categories

AI Coding Models Supported
AI Models Supported

Integrations

OpenRouter Supported
Cheaper Inference Supported
Claude Code Supported
DeepSeek Harness Supported
GLM Coding Plan Supported
Hermes Agent Supported
LM Studio Not Supported
Ollama Not Supported
OpenClaw Supported
OpenCode Go Supported
OpenCode Zen Supported
Pi Agent Supported
Unsloth Not Supported
Z.ai Supported
omp Supported
vLLM Not Supported

Integrations

OpenRouter Supported
Cheaper Inference Not Supported
Claude Code Not Supported
DeepSeek Harness Not Supported
GLM Coding Plan Not Supported
Hermes Agent Not Supported
LM Studio Supported
Ollama Supported
OpenClaw Not Supported
OpenCode Go Not Supported
OpenCode Zen Not Supported
Pi Agent Not Supported
Unsloth Supported
Z.ai Not Supported
omp Not Supported
vLLM Supported
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