Phi-4 Mini Instruct: Intelligence, Performance & Price Analysis
Analysis of Microsoft Azure's Phi-4 Mini Instruct and comparison to other AI models across key metrics including quality, price, performance (tokens per second & time to first token), context window & more. Click on any model to compare API providers for that model. For more details including relating to our methodology, see our FAQs.
Comparison Summary
Intelligence:
Phi-4 Mini is of lower intelligence compared to average, with Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index of 16.
Price:Speed:Phi-4 Mini is slower compared to average, with a output speed of 47.8 tokens per second.
Latency:Phi-4 Mini has a lower latency compared to average, taking 0.32s to receive the first token (TTFT).
Context Window:Phi-4 Mini has a smaller context windows than average, with a context window of 130k tokens.
Highlights
Intelligence
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index; Higher is better
Estimate (independent evaluation forthcoming)
Speed
Output Tokens per Second; Higher is better
Price
USD per 1M Tokens; Lower is better
Parallel Queries:
Prompt Length:
Phi-4 Mini Instruct Model Details
Comparisons to Phi-4 Mini
- Phi-4 Mini
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- GPT-5 (high)
- gpt-oss-20B (high)
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Claude 4 Sonnet Thinking- Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking
Magistral Small
DeepSeek R1 0528- DeepSeek V3.1 (Non-reasoning)
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Grok Code Fast 1- Grok 4
Solar Pro 2 (Reasoning)
Llama Nemotron Super 49B v1.5 (Reasoning)
Kimi K2
EXAONE 4.0 32B (Reasoning)
GLM-4.5
Qwen3 235B 2507 (Reasoning)
Further details
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DeepHermes 3 - Llama-3.1 8B Preview
Aya Expanse 32B
Jamba 1.7 Mini
OpenChat 3.5 (1210)
DBRX Instruct
Llama 3.1 Tulu3 405B
Arctic Instruct
Yi-Large