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Phi-4-mini

Efficient model for low-latency assistance, extraction, and routine automation

phi-4-mini
Type
Text
Quality
Not rated yet
Context window
128,000 tokens
Max output
4,096 tokens
Input price
$0.075 / 1M tokens
Output price
$0.30 / 1M tokens
Cache read
—
Cache write
—
Parameters
3.8B (3,836,021,760)
Downloads
370K in the last 30 days
Likes
860
Access to weights
Open download
Released
Dec 11, 2024
Knowledge cutoff
Oct 2023
Takes in
Text
Puts out
Text
Reasoning
No
Tool calling
Yes
Structured output
No
File attachments
No
Access
Open weights
License
MIT
Rarity
Common
Set number
454/1044
Open Microsoft docsWeights on Hugging FaceWhere to run it 4Evolution 3/3Meet its creatureBattle Step 3.5 Flash 2603

License read from the model’s Hugging Face card. Specs from models.dev, downloads from Hugging Face, last changed Oct 19, 2026. Official source: learn.microsoft.com.

How good is it?

Public leaderboard scores for Phi-4-mini, refreshed daily from Epoch AI and LMArena.

No public leaderboard lists Phi-4-mini yet. Epoch AI and LMArena cover most chat, image, and video models from the big labs; embeddings, speech, and small open models mostly go unrated.

Where to run it

4 providers sell Phi-4-mini through an API. Prices are per million tokens, cheapest first.

API providers

ProviderInputOutputContext
NvidiaFreemicrosoft/phi-4-mini-instructFreeFree131K
AzureOfficialCheapest paidphi-4-mini$0.075$0.30128K
Azure Cognitive Servicesphi-4-mini$0.075$0.30128K
NanoGPTphi-4-mini-instruct$0.17$0.68128K

From models.dev and Hugging Face, checked daily. Resellers’ listings can lag behind their price pages, so confirm with the provider before you commit.

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