recursive · Free API
Flint (OpenRouter)
Free “:free” variant on OpenRouter – rate-limited, no charge.
Free API Available 🛠 Tool calling 256K 🕒 Verified on 2026-10-22
Flint is an open-weight mixture-of-experts model from Recursive, with about 2.5B active parameters out of 40B total, built by Recursive's autoresearch system Eureka Machine for coding agents
Free conditions
- Free conditions
- Free “:free” variant on OpenRouter – rate-limited, no charge.
- Free until
- —
- Rate limits
- 20 requests/min; 50 requests/day if you have bought fewer than 10 credits, 1,000/day after buying at least 10 (shared across all :free models).
- Sign-up / login
- Required
- Real-name verification
- —
- Credit card
- Not required
- Region
- —
- Data use
- —
Specs
- Provider
- recursive
- Platform
- OpenRouter
- Type
- Free API
- Modalities
- Text
- Parameters
- —
- Context length
- 256K (262,144 tokens)
- License
- —
- Tool calling
- Yes
- Released
- 2026-10-21
How to access
- API base URL
https://openrouter.ai/api/v1- Model ID
recursive/flint-v1.0:free- Hugging Face
- https://huggingface.co/RecursiveSI/flint
- Platform page
- https://openrouter.ai/recursive/flint-v1.0:free
Official sources
- OpenRouter models API https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/models
- OpenRouter API – Limits https://openrouter.ai/docs/api_reference/limits
🕒 Verified on 2026-10-22 · Free terms change often. Always confirm limits, data-use policy and regional availability on the official page before relying on a free tier.