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Microsoft · Phi-4

Phi-4 Multimodal Instruct

Open weightsGenerally availableMIT

Open 5.6B model for text, image and speech understanding.

AA Intelligence
5.8#133 of 142
Price
Self-host
Output speed
17tok/s
Context window
128K tokens

Composite indexes

  • Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index#133 of 142
    6independentIntelligence Index v4.3; non-reasoning; estimatedArtificial Analysis: Phi-4 Multimodal Instruct ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 58

Coding

  • LiveCodeBench#54 of 56
    13.1%independentnon-reasoningArtificial Analysis: Phi-4 Multimodal Instruct ↗

    Leader: Fugu at 92.9%

Reasoning and knowledge

  • GPQA Diamond#140 of 142
    31.5%independentnon-reasoningArtificial Analysis: Phi-4 Multimodal Instruct ↗

    Leader: GPT-6 Astra at 96.1%

  • Humanity’s Last Exam#121 of 147
    5%independentno tools; non-reasoningArtificial Analysis: Phi-4 Multimodal Instruct ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 61.4%

Vision and long context

  • MMMU-Pro#72 of 72
    14.5%independentnon-reasoningArtificial Analysis: Phi-4 Multimodal Instruct ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 87.7%

Specs

Released
February 26, 2025
Parameters
5.6B
Size class
Under 10B
Input
text, image, audio
Output
text
Context
128K tokens
Max output
Not published
First token
0.83s
  • Speed: Artificial Analysis leaderboard (Phi-4 Multimodal Instruct, median across providers or first-party as shown) ↗

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