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Phi-4

Open-weight instruction model for adaptable chat and self-hosted production workloads

phi-4
Type
Text
Quality
42 · Top 58% on the Epoch Capabilities Index
Context window
128,000 tokens
Max output
4,096 tokens
Input price
$0.13 / 1M tokens
Output price
$0.50 / 1M tokens
Cache read
—
Cache write
—
Parameters
15B (14,659,507,200)
Downloads
370K in the last 30 days
Likes
2.3K
Access to weights
Open download
Released
Dec 11, 2024
Knowledge cutoff
Oct 2023
Takes in
Text
Puts out
Text
Reasoning
No
Tool calling
No
Structured output
No
File attachments
No
Access
Open weights
License
MIT
Rarity
Common
Set number
453/1044
Open Microsoft docsWeights on Hugging FaceQuality 42Where to run it 6Evolution 3/3Race it 78 tok/sMeet its creatureBattle Claude Haiku 5.5

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, refreshed daily from Epoch AI and LMArena.

Top 58% of the 277 models on the Epoch Capabilities Index: #160.

Quality is the share of a leaderboard’s models this one beats, from 0 to 100. Chat models are rated on Epoch AI’s Capabilities Index when it lists them, otherwise on LMArena; image and video models on LMArena’s image and video arenas.

Leaderboards

Benchmarks Epoch AI runs

Scores from Epoch AI and LMArena, licensed CC BY 4.0. Boards list models under their own names, so a close match is shown with the name it was scored under. Credits

Where to run it

4 providers sell Phi-4 through an API, and 2 Hugging Face hosts serve it. Prices are per million tokens, cheapest first.

API providers

ProviderInputOutputContext
Kilo GatewayCheapest paidmicrosoft/phi-4$0.056$0.1116K
OpenRoutermicrosoft/phi-4$0.07$0.1416K
AzureOfficialphi-4$0.13$0.50128K
Azure Cognitive Servicesphi-4$0.13$0.50128K

Hugging Face Inference Providers

HostInputOutputContextSpeedFirst token
DeepInfraFastest$0.07$0.1416K78 tok/s0.3s
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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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