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Microsoft · Phi-4

Phi-4 Mini Instruct

Open weightsGenerally availableMIT

Dense 3.8B open model for local text inference.

AA Intelligence
6.3#127 of 142
Price
Self-host
Output speed
44tok/s
Context window
128K tokens

Composite indexes

  • Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index#127 of 142
    6independentIntelligence Index v4.3; non-reasoning; estimatedArtificial Analysis: Phi-4 Mini Instruct ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 58

Coding

  • Terminal-Bench 2.x#102 of 103
    0.4%independentTerminal-Bench 2.1; non-reasoningArtificial Analysis: Phi-4 Mini Instruct ↗

    Leader: Claude Fable 5.1 at 91.4%

  • LiveCodeBench#55 of 56
    12.6%independentnon-reasoningArtificial Analysis: Phi-4 Mini Instruct ↗

    Leader: Fugu at 92.9%

Agents and tool use

  • τ²-Bench#81 of 88
    8.2%independenttelecom; non-reasoningArtificial Analysis: Phi-4 Mini Instruct ↗

    Leader: GLM-5.2 at 99.1%

  • GDPval-AA#103 of 103
    -425independentnon-reasoningArtificial Analysis: Phi-4 Mini Instruct ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 1846

Reasoning and knowledge

  • GPQA Diamond#138 of 142
    33.1%independentnon-reasoningArtificial Analysis: Phi-4 Mini Instruct ↗

    Leader: GPT-6 Astra at 96.1%

  • Humanity’s Last Exam#130 of 147
    4.5%independentno tools; non-reasoningArtificial Analysis: Phi-4 Mini Instruct ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 61.4%

  • CritPt#114 of 139
    0%independentnon-reasoningArtificial Analysis: Phi-4 Mini Instruct ↗

    Leader: GPT-5.6 Sol at 32.3%

Vision and long context

  • AA Long Context Reasoning#122 of 139
    15.3%independentnon-reasoningArtificial Analysis: Phi-4 Mini Instruct ↗

    Leader: Kimi K3 at 88.7%

Other published results

ResultScoreReported bySource
aime-2025 · AIME 2025; non-reasoning6.7%independentArtificial Analysis: Phi-4 Mini Instruct ↗
Terminal-Bench Hard (AA) · non-reasoning0%independentArtificial Analysis: Phi-4 Mini Instruct ↗
IFBench · non-reasoning21.1%independentArtificial Analysis: Phi-4 Mini Instruct ↗
AA-Omniscience Index · non-reasoning-61.1 indexindependentArtificial Analysis: Phi-4 Mini Instruct ↗

Specs

Released
Not published
Parameters
3.8B
Size class
Under 10B
Input
text
Output
text
Context
128K tokens
Max output
Not published
First token
0.83s
  • Speed: Artificial Analysis leaderboard (Phi-4 Mini Instruct, median across providers or first-party as shown) ↗

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