Microsoft
Phi-4
CurrentLatestPhi-4 is Microsoft Research’s small language model line focused on strong reasoning per parameter for on-device and low-cost cloud scenarios.
Small LLM · Release — · See vendor
Updated 1 day ago · Verified Apr 2026 · Score 78
Decision summary
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Why teams choose it
- Excellent for routing and medium-complexity tasks at low cost.
- Pair with retrieval for factual enterprise Q&A.
Best use cases
- Use this when edge and hybrid cloud assistants
- Use this when latency-sensitive IDE features
Tradeoffs
- Not a full replacement for GPT-4-class on hardest tasks.
- Model packaging varies—watch quantization effects.
Technical details
Modalities, benchmarks, and release context.
Modalities
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- Inputs
- text
- Outputs
- text
- Capabilities
- reasoning, coding, edge
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