[Microsoft Research](/microsoft) Phi-4 is designed to perform well in complex reasoning tasks and can operate efficiently in situations with limited memory or where quick responses are needed. At 14 billion...
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Microsoft: Phi 4 holds the #382 spot for context size out of 392 chat models in the CoreAI catalog — 16K tokens, roughly 12,288 words or 25 pages of text in a single conversation. On price, it is the #33 cheapest of 128 budget-tier models by input cost. It joined the catalog on 2025-01-10.
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A typical question (about 1,000 tokens in, 500 out) runs $0.00014 on Microsoft: Phi 4's raw per-token rates; a heavy session with a 50K-token document costs about $0.004. On CoreAI you don't juggle these numbers — one subscription covers Microsoft: Phi 4 and 300+ other models under a plan usage limit, with no API keys. See plans.
Microsoft: Phi 4 handles 16K tokens of context — roughly 12,288 words, or about 25 pages of text in one conversation.
Microsoft: Phi 4's underlying rates are $0.07 per 1M input tokens and $0.14 per 1M output tokens. On CoreAI it is included in one subscription alongside 300+ models, so there is no per-token billing to manage.
No — Microsoft: Phi 4 is text-only. If you need image understanding, its budget-tier peers with vision are listed in the comparison table above.
No — Microsoft: Phi 4 answers directly without an extended reasoning phase, which usually means faster responses.
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The closest alternatives on CoreAI are WizardLM-2 8x22B, Reka Edge, inclusionAI: Ling-2.6-flash — similar tier and capability. The fastest way to choose is running one prompt through them side by side in CoreAI's Compare view.
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