Identity
- Status
- active
- Developer ID
microsoft/Phi-4-mini-instruct- Released
- Feb 26, 2025
- Version
- Phi-4-mini-instruct
- License
- mit
MicrosoftPhi-4 Mini Instruct
Phi-4-mini-instruct is an open-weight language model published by Microsoft.
- Token context
- 131K tokens
- Inputs
- Text
- Outputs
- Text
- Released
- Feb 26, 2025
Providers & Pricing
1 current hosted offerings
No Directly Sourced Provider Price Yet
API pricing is provider-specific and stays unknown until a serving provider publishes an exact offering for this model version.
At a Glance
Model Facts
Capacity
- Token context
- 131K tokens
- Maximum output
- Unknown
- Total parameters
- 3.8B
- Active parameters
- Unknown
- Knowledge cutoff
- Not reported
Interface and Access
- Inputs
- Text
- Outputs
- Text
- API available
- Yes
- Open weights
- Yes
- Self-hostable
- Yes
- Reasoning
- No
- Vision
- No
- Tool calling
- No
- Capabilities
- chat, generation
This page represents one developer model product. Dated API snapshots, serving endpoints, pricing, regions, quantizations, and service tiers attach as versioned aliases or provider details and never create duplicate public model records.
Version Lineage
PredecessorUnknown
SuccessorsUnknown
Aliasesmicrosoft/Phi-4-mini-instruct, microsoft/Phi-4-mini-instruct
Explicit Unknowns
- Maximum output
- Knowledge cutoff
- Provider pricing
Primary Evidence
Sources and Observation Date
microsoft/Phi-4-mini-instruct developer model repositoryMicrosoft · observed Aug 28, 2026microsoft/Phi-4-mini-instruct Hugging Face inference-provider mappingHugging Face · observed Aug 28, 2026microsoft/Phi-4-mini-instruct config.json at cfbefacb9925Microsoft · observed Aug 28, 2026microsoft/Phi-4-mini-instruct immutable Hub API metadataMicrosoft · observed Aug 28, 2026Empowering innovation: The next generation of the Phi familyMicrosoft · observed Aug 28, 2026microsoft/Phi-4-mini-instruct tokenizer_config.json at cfbefacb9925Microsoft · observed Aug 28, 2026Hugging Face catalogHugging Face · observed Sep 2, 2026
Comparable Peers
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Phi-4 Mini InstructMicrosoft | vs |  Bolmo 7BAi2 | cross-developer peerstext |
Phi-4 Mini InstructMicrosoft | vs | cross-developer peerstext | |
Phi-4 Mini InstructMicrosoft | vs |  ERNIE 4.5 0.3B PTBaidu | cross-developer peerstext |
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Phi-4 Mini InstructMicrosoft | vs | cross-developer peerstext | |
Phi-4 Mini InstructMicrosoft | vs | cross-developer peerstext | |
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Phi-4 Mini InstructMicrosoft | vs |  Llama 3.1 8BMeta | cross-developer peerstext |
Phi-4 Mini InstructMicrosoft | vs | phi-4Microsoft | family variantstext |
Phi-4 Mini InstructMicrosoft | vs | Phi-4 Mini ReasoningMicrosoft | family variantstext |
Phi-4 Mini InstructMicrosoft | vs | Phi-4 Multimodal InstructMicrosoft | family variantstext |
Questions
Phi-4 Mini Instruct FAQs
What is Phi-4 Mini Instruct?+
Phi-4-mini-instruct is an open-weight language model published by Microsoft. It is developed by Microsoft and its current sourced lifecycle status is active.
What inputs and outputs does Phi-4 Mini Instruct support?+
Phi-4 Mini Instruct's current record lists Text as input and Text as output.
How much context does Phi-4 Mini Instruct support?+
The current record lists a 131K-token context window and does not report a maximum output length.
Is Phi-4 Mini Instruct available through an API?+
Phi-4 Mini Instruct is marked as API-available. The directly sourced provider records currently include Hugging Face.
How large is Phi-4 Mini Instruct?+
The current record lists 3.8B total parameters and an unknown active parameter count. Its architecture is Phi3ForCausalLM.
What capabilities and tasks does Phi-4 Mini Instruct support?+
Phi-4 Mini Instruct's recorded capabilities are chat and generation. Its supported tasks are text.
How much does Phi-4 Mini Instruct cost through an API?+
No directly sourced token price is currently attached to Phi-4 Mini Instruct. Missing prices remain unknown rather than being inferred from another model or provider.
Can Phi-4 Mini Instruct be self-hosted?+
Phi-4 Mini Instruct is an open-weight model. Self-hosting is supported, and the recorded license is mit.
Does Phi-4 Mini Instruct have related versions or aliases?+
No predecessor is recorded. No successor is recorded. Recorded aliases are microsoft/Phi-4-mini-instruct.
Which models can Phi-4 Mini Instruct be compared with?+
The current compatible peer set includes Phi-4 Reasoning, Bolmo 7B, Olmo 3 7B Instruct, ERNIE 4.5 0.3B PT, and Granite 4.1 3B. Compatibility requires shared sourced modalities and tasks; it does not imply that one model is better. Browse model comparisons →