Microsoft · Released Feb 26, 2025Phi-4-multimodal-instruct
Compact Microsoft multimodal model for text, image, and speech understanding.
- Capability
- —No ECI score yet
- Input
- $0.07per 1M tokens
- Output
- $0.11per 1M tokens
- Context
- 131K131K max output
What it costs
- Input
- $0.07per million tokens
- Output
- $0.11per million tokens
- Blended (3:1)
- $0.08cheaper than 92% of priced models
Typical monthly bills
| Monthly usage | Estimated cost |
|---|---|
| Side project2M input + 0.5M output tokens | $0.195 |
| Team assistant25M input + 5M output tokens | $2.30 |
| Production app250M input + 50M output tokens | $23.00 |
Median of 1 paid API provider on models.dev.
Independent benchmarks
Epoch AI has not published a Capabilities Index score for Phi-4-multimodal-instruct yet.
The details
- Lab
- Microsoft
- Released
- Feb 26, 2025
- Knowledge cutoff
- Jun 2024
- Context window
- 131,072 tokens
- Max output
- 131,072 tokens
- Inputs
- Text, Images, Audio
- Output
- Text
- Reasoning
- No
- Tool calling
- Yes
- Structured output
- No
- Weights
- Open weights · MIT
- Availability
- 1 API providerlisted on models.dev
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About Phi-4-multimodal-instruct
How much does Phi-4-multimodal-instruct cost?
Phi-4-multimodal-instruct costs $0.07 input / $0.11 output per million tokens (median across 1 API provider). At a 3:1 input-to-output mix that is $0.08 per million tokens, cheaper than 92% of the 445 priced models we track.
What is the context window of Phi-4-multimodal-instruct?
Phi-4-multimodal-instruct accepts up to 131,072 tokens per request and can write up to 131,072 tokens in one response.
How good is Phi-4-multimodal-instruct?
Epoch AI has not published a Capabilities Index score for Phi-4-multimodal-instruct yet.
Is Phi-4-multimodal-instruct open source?
Yes. Microsoft publishes the weights under the MIT licence, so it can be downloaded and self-hosted.
What inputs does Phi-4-multimodal-instruct support?
Phi-4-multimodal-instruct accepts text, images and audio and replies in text. It is not a dedicated reasoning model, supports tool calling.
When was Phi-4-multimodal-instruct released?
Microsoft released Phi-4-multimodal-instruct on Feb 26, 2025. Its training data runs to Jun 2024.
What are the best alternatives to Phi-4-multimodal-instruct?
The closest current models from other labs on capability, price and release date are Command R7B Arabic (Cohere, $0.037 / $0.15), Reka Flash 3 (Reka AI, $0.10 / $0.20), Qwen-VL OCR (Alibaba (Qwen), $0.07 / $0.16) and Nova Micro (Amazon, $0.035 / $0.14).