# GLiNER2

12 Hacker News commenters recommended GLiNER2 and 3 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 5 of 13 months. It meets the Hacker Approved badge rule.

**Verdict:** Open-source non-LLM model for entity extraction, recommended as fast, cheap and CPU-friendly; critics say its Python code ignores software engineering practices.

## Why people recommend it

- Fast, cheap, CPU-first (2 comments): "its faster, cheaper and better" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48023480)) "Love the focus on CPU-first." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47268312))
- Strong non-LLM entity extraction (2 comments): "Fantastic (non LLM) models for entity extraction." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46169876)) "GLiNER is a really great research work." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47273334))

## What people warn about

- Python code quality problems (2 comments): "Sounds like a great model which is hobbled by a bunch of mundane python programming issues" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47301831)) "Feels like it's written by ML people not following python software engineering practices." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47270849))

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "GLiNER2", https://hackerapproved.com/p/gliner2/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).