Phi-4-mini-instruct
Open Weights
Microsoft
The compact 3.8B-parameter member of Microsoft's Phi-4 family (2025, MIT license), an instruction-tuned small model with a 128K-token context window designed for efficient on-device and edge deployment while retaining strong reasoning for its size.
Strengths
- Compact 3.8B parameters with a 128K-token context window
- Open weights under permissive MIT license
- Strong reasoning and instruction following for its size
- Efficient on-device and edge deployment
Caveats
- 3.8B capacity trails larger models on complex tasks
- Text-only (no vision or audio input)
- Best for lightweight, latency-sensitive use cases
- Vendor
- Microsoft
- Context Window
- 131,072 tokens
- License
- MIT
- Release Date
- 2025-02-26
- Modalities
- text
Capabilities
Vision
Audio
Video
Tool Use
Resources
Pricing
Open weights under MIT license - free to download and self-host; 3.8B runs on modest hardware and edge devices.