Phi-4-Mini
by MicrosoftChat
Efficient model for low-latency assistance, extraction, and routine automation
- Context
- 131K tokens
- Max output
- 16,384 tokens
- Parameters
- 3.8B total
- Released
- 2024-12-01
- Weights
- Open
- Licence
- mit
microsoft/phi-4-mini-instruct
Specifications
Full facts as recorded, incl. what is unknown.
- Released
- 2024-12-01
- Weights
- Opennot gated
- License
- mit
- Input
- Text
- Output
- Text
- Context window
- 131,072 max across endpoints
- Max output
- 16,384
- Providers
- 2 + 1 gateway, not counted as providers
- Epoch Capabilities Index
- not evaluated
- Direct price range
- $0.075 in · $0.30 out per 1M tokens · 1 of 2 providers have a comparable price
More details
- Last updated
- 2025-09-05
- Knowledge cutoff
- 2024-12
- Weights link
- Hugging Face · microsoft/Phi-4-mini-instruct
- Parameters
- 3.8B total
Capabilities
Across all endpoints: supported if any endpoint supports it.
- Tool calling
- Parallel toolsunknown
- Structured output
- Reasoning
- Image input
- PDF input
- Audio input
- Audio outputunknown
- Video input
- Prompt cachingunknown
- Web searchunknown
- Computer useunknown
- System messagesunknown
- Assistant prefillunknown
- Temperature
- Streamingunknown
- Attachments
Endpoints
One row per provider and variant; gateways are listed separately.
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Price history
No change since 19 Oct 2026. The cheapest direct price has been $0.075 in / $0.30 out per 1M tokens at Azure on every data refresh since then.
Tracked from 19 Oct 2026. Headline-eligible direct prices only, so a price the sanity check flags never draws a spike. Series as JSON
Cost calculator
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