# Flint vs Kanana-2 3B Instruct

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Flint and Kanana-2 3B Instruct across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/flint-40b-a2-5b-vs-kanana-2-3b-instruct
- Last updated: October 20, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 2
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

Evidence is too thin for a benchmark verdict: Flint and Kanana-2 3B Instruct share only 2 sourced benchmark rows.

## Summary

- Only 2 shared sourced benchmark rows are available. That is not enough for a broad capability verdict, so this mirror does not name an overall winner.
- Flint has the larger published context window at 256K.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Flint | Kanana-2 3B Instruct |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Recursive | Kakao |
| Type | Open Weight | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Non-Reasoning |
| Context | 256K | 32K |
| Independent public score (not head-to-head) | null | null |
| Benchmarks Covered | 5 | 3 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $0.00 / $0.00 | $0.00 / $0.00 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Flint public-lane score: Coming soon
- Kanana-2 3B Instruct public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Flint | Kanana-2 3B Instruct | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 54.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Flint public-lane score: Coming soon
- Kanana-2 3B Instruct public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Flint | Kanana-2 3B Instruct | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | 74.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | 80.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Flint public-lane score: 94.7 (#3/152)
- Kanana-2 3B Instruct public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Flint | Kanana-2 3B Instruct | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | 89.2% | 33.3% | Flint |
| IFEval | 95.1% | 81.0% | Flint |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Flint public-lane score: Coming soon
- Kanana-2 3B Instruct public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Flint | Kanana-2 3B Instruct | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MATH-500 | Coming soon | 61.2% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Is there enough evidence to pick between Flint and Kanana-2 3B Instruct?

Not yet. The models share only 2 sourced benchmark rows, so this mirror reports the available measurements and metadata without naming a broad winner.

### What can I compare safely on this page?

Published pricing, context windows, model type, and individual shared benchmark rows are directly comparable. Independent overall scores and non-overlapping benchmark coverage are labeled separately and should not be read as a controlled head-to-head result.

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## Explore More

- [Flint profile](/models/flint-40b-a2-5b)
- [Kanana-2 3B Instruct profile](/models/kanana-2-3b-instruct)
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