I'm surprised this isn't getting more coverage, but the Flint 4 was revealed at CES 2026! Apparently, it's very early in development, so I'm curious if it'll even be released in 2026 or if it'll be a 2027 router?
Will this router be similar to the upcoming OpenWRT Two router? My guess is that it's probably a yes since both appear to be using Mediatek chipsets! I'm really curious how much RAM it'll have. Hopefully 2-4GB of RAM? Please make this happen, GL.iNet! @bruce @will.qiu
I'm going to follow the development of this with interest. Looks like a significant step up from the RT-BE88u. But I'm really confused about where the market is going with home routers.
On the one hand, in the US I have the typical crappy Spectrum cable internet, and it will be years before I get to symmetrical 1gbps internet. But I do have a NAS with a copper 10g connection, so high speed internal wifi is of interest from a router with one copper 10g connection. 2.5g doesn't cut it for me, but I understand that might be for folks who need to use existing wire runs. I have an RT-AX88U with 8 1g ports, and I have all of them in use.
On the other hand, in PT I have symmetrical 1gbps as part of the standard package, and I can get 10g symmetrical for 20€ more. There I would want two 10g connections, one for WAN and one for the NAS. So this Flint 4 wouldn't work while the BE88 would. But I don't have the wire runs for a lot of connections, so the 6g band would be of use (although indoors at a reduced power may not work well), so the BE88 wouldn't work for that. But where I would place the Flint 4 there are no other devices to plug in, except for one wired connection to another room.
There are a lot of wifi signals in each location. Oh, what to do?
Now that seems more like something worth upgrading to. After trying and returning the Flint 3 I am waiting for something more like this before to make the switch to WiFi 7. Hopefully the Flint 4 will not compromise maintaining at least 4x4 MIMO on all bands! Assuming each of those antennas are dual band it should be possible with the 6 antenna configuration.
I hope you guys address the lack of true multi-radio simultaneous MLO by rtings article published a month ago. I hope we see Flint 4 closing these gaps 
Thank you for your interest!
We have always valued home routers and have been exploring stronger solutions.
At present, yes, it is still in early development, and we cannot disclose more hardware details.
Sure, we would love to release it by 2026, according to the planned timeline, it may be by 2027.
We will publish it as soon as possible, but before releasing it, we still have some problems that need to be debugged, solved, and improve.
I agree. I was quite surprised to see how bad GL iNet fared with their MLO implementation. It sounds like the hardware is unlikely to be up to par and no software update will fix this. Surprisingly, I haven't seen any response from GL.iNet about this matter.
@bruce @will.qiu Are you guys going to address this? At this point, people want a true working MLO implementation.
I'm not sure why RAM is such a secretive figure. Surely, at this point, management has an idea of how much RAM will be used? Touch screens on routers seem so gimmicky. I would prefer a more simplistic approach to this. Save us the money by omitting the touch screen. I want to buy a Flint 4 for its routing abilities and nothing else.
I agree, I don’t want or need a touch screen on a router. It’s not like I’m going to be changing settings daily or something. Seems like a complete waste of money which could be spent elsewhere.
I too was fooled into thinking the Flint 3 would be an upgrade on my excellent Flint 2….
I gave it a decent trial against the 2 , but it never performed as expected…
Reluctantly I returned the Flint 3…
The Flint 2 is a superb device in my home network.
I have ethernet thru’ my house and have 1 gigabit full fibre from EE which is also connected to my Asustor Nas which has dual 2.5 gbe connections.
Let's hope the Flint 4 will be the upgrade from Gl-Inet we all would like to purchase in ‘26!.
This Youtuber has more cover of GL-iNET new products at CES.
(the Comet Q is really cute one 
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It looks like a really promising router, but I hope not they proceed with the Qualcomm socs. 
Wtf… i will waiting change my flint 2 up to a real 10gbps ports (at least 2 simultaneusly) and another 2 of 2.5gbps.
It's supposed to be MediaTek, and I hope GL.iNet sticks to it. No more Qualcomm! Hopefully it's not too late for GL.iNet to abandon the proliferation of touchscreens in their routers. It feels like a total waste.They might as well use that BoM cost on RAM or NAND. @will.qiu @bruce You guys listening?!
We’re listening, and we take every user opinion seriously. What we’re developing with now—this thing that might be called Flint4—is a flagship product in home router series.
The PM team will align it with its market position and add some more advanced features. For example, once a touchscreen is available, certain operations might be possible without logging into the GL GUI, enabling faster start and stop of specific functions.
All product specifications are confidential until official release! Any technical parameters are highly important to commercial companies. We apologize for this.
We are working hard with the chip manufacturers to develop a more complete MLO. Thanks!
We’re open to any suggestions.
