Flint is an open-weight mixture-of-experts model developed by Recursive for coding agents, featuring an expansive context length of 262,144 tokens. Built by Recursive's autoresearch system Eureka Machine, it operates with approximately 2.5B active parameters out of 40B total parameters. This model offers an efficient and powerful solution tailored for complex development workflows and agentic tasks.
Flint V1.0 (free) vs Kimi K3
Compare Flint V1.0 (free) from Recursive and Kimi K3 from Moonshot AI on key metrics including benchmarks, price, context length, and other model features. Access both models and hundreds of others through the AIHubMix API.
Flint V1.0 (free)Kimi K3 is Kimi’s flagship model for long-horizon coding and end-to-end knowledge work, with a 1M-token context window and industry-leading intelligence.
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FAQ
What inputs and capabilities does each model support?
Flint V1.0 (free) accepts text input; Kimi K3 accepts text, image and video input and supports thinking, function calling and structured outputs.
Can I call Flint V1.0 (free) and Kimi K3 with the same API key?
Yes. AIHubMix serves every model on this page behind one OpenAI-compatible endpoint, so switching between them is a one-line change to the model field — no second account, key or SDK.
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