Microsoft: Phi 4 Mini Instruct

Microsoft: Phi 4 Mini Instruct

microsoft · Released Oct 17, 2025 Efficient
Intelligence #267 / 556
31.8 Our Score
Speed #222 / 257
43.4 tokens / sec
Input #176 / 557
$0.080 per 1M tokens
Output #214 / 557
$0.350 per 1M tokens
Context #220 / 557
131,072 tokens

Analysis Summary

Microsoft: Phi 4 Mini Instruct sits in the Efficient tier on our leaderboard, ranked #267 of 556 published models on overall intelligence. At $0.080 input and $0.350 output per 1M tokens, it is among the most expensive on the market. It offers a standard large context window.

Editorial notes

Phi 4 Mini Instruct is a compact model with very low benchmark scores across reasoning and coding; suitable only for lightweight edge tasks where cost and size are the primary constraints.

Assessed May 14, 2026

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Performance Profile

Intelligence1.9Technical0.9Value7.8Content2.5
Intelligence 1.9/10
Technical 0.9/10
Content 2.5/10
Value 7.8/10

Phi-4-mini-instruct is a lightweight open model built upon synthetic data and filtered publicly available websites - with a focus on high-quality, reasoning dense data. The model belongs to the Phi-4..

Performance Indices

Source: Artificial Analysis

8.4 Intelligence Index
3.6 Coding Index
8.2 Agentic Index
6.7 Math Index

Benchmark Scores

Intelligence

GPQA Diamond 33.1% Graduate-level scientific reasoning
HLE 4.2% Humanity's Last Exam
MMLU Pro 46.5% Multi-task language understanding
MATH 500 69.6% Mathematical problem-solving
AIME 3% Competition mathematics
AIME 2025 6.7% Competition mathematics (2025)
SciCode 10.8% Scientific computing

Technical

LiveCodeBench 12.6% Live coding evaluation
τ²-Bench 8.2% Conversational agent benchmark

Content

IFBench 21.1% Instruction following
LCR 13.7% Long-context reasoning

Benchmark data from Artificial Analysis and Hugging Face

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Model Information

OpenRouter ID microsoft/phi-4-mini-instruct
Providermicrosoft
Release Date October 17, 2025
Context Length131,072 tokens
Max Completion128,000 tokens
Status Active

Pricing

Token Type Cost per 1M tokens Cost per 1K tokens
Input $0.08 $0.000080
Output $0.35 $0.000350