Laguna S 2.1

Laguna S 2.1

Poolside
Recursive Flint

Recursive Flint

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About

Laguna S 2.1 is an open weight agentic coding model designed to pursue longer-horizon work and make effective use of reasoning. It uses a 118-billion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts architecture with 8 billion active parameters per token and supports a context window of up to one million tokens in both thinking and no-thinking modes. Its compact active size makes it suitable for complex work on local machines while remaining competitive with models many times larger on terminal, software-engineering, codebase-question-answering, and tool-use benchmarks. Laguna S 2.1 is built to keep working through difficult tasks with greater persistence, verification, and willingness to backtrack instead of declaring success too early. In demonstrated runs, it built and validated a browser rendering engine from an empty folder, optimized an agent harness for faster execution and substantially lower memory allocation, and completed extended mathematical research using the tools in its environment.

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 and engineering teams seeking an efficient reasoning model for long-horizon coding, software engineering, and agentic tasks

Audience

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

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Reviews/Ratings

Overall 5.0 / 5
ease 5.0 / 5
features 4.0 / 5
design 5.0 / 5

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Pros & Cons from Real Users

Pros

  • Laguna S 2.1 looks awesome from a developer’s point of view because it is built specifically for agentic coding, not just general chatbot tasks. I like that it is open-weight, relatively compact for its capability, and designed for the kind of workflows where an AI needs to inspect a repo, reason through changes, edit code, and keep moving across multiple steps. The 1M-token context window is a huge plus. For real engineering work, context is everything: source files, docs, logs, tests, tickets, configs, and previous attempts all matter. Having a coding model that can handle that much context makes it much more useful for serious repo-level work.

Cons

  • It is still new, so I would want to test it heavily before trusting it with production code. Coding benchmarks are useful, but the real test is messy repos, weird dependencies, flaky tests, security-sensitive changes, and long-running agent loops.

Training

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Training

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Company Information

Poolside
Founded: 2023
United States
poolside.ai/blog/introducing-laguna-s-2-1

Company Information

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

Alternatives

Alternatives

Laguna XS 2.1

Laguna XS 2.1

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Laguna XS 2.1

Laguna XS 2.1

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Recursive Flint

Recursive Flint

Recursive

Categories

AI Coding Models Supported
AI Models Supported

Categories

AI Coding Models Supported
AI Models Supported

Integrations

Ollama Supported
OpenRouter Supported
Agent Client Protocol (ACP) Supported
Claude Code Supported
Cline Supported
Hermes Agent Supported
Hugging Face Supported
IntelliJ IDEA Supported
Kilo Code Supported
LM Studio Not Supported
Nous Portal Supported
OpenAI Codex Supported
OpenClaw Supported
OpenCode Supported
Poolside Supported
Roo Code Supported
Unsloth Not Supported
Visual Studio Supported
Visual Studio Code Supported
Zed Supported

Integrations

Ollama Supported
OpenRouter Supported
Agent Client Protocol (ACP) Not Supported
Claude Code Not Supported
Cline Not Supported
Hermes Agent Not Supported
Hugging Face Not Supported
IntelliJ IDEA Not Supported
Kilo Code Not Supported
LM Studio Supported
Nous Portal Not Supported
OpenAI Codex Not Supported
OpenClaw Not Supported
OpenCode Not Supported
Poolside Not Supported
Roo Code Not Supported
Unsloth Supported
Visual Studio Not Supported
Visual Studio Code Not Supported
Zed Not Supported
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