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Atria Dawn Preview vs Phi-4-multimodal-instruct

Atria Dawn Preview leads the LLM Stats Score 52.3 to 2.8.

Shanghai AI Laboratory · Microsoft · Updated for 2026

Which is better?

Atria Dawn Preview leads the overall LLM Stats Score 52.3 to 2.8, ranking #10 overall.

Based on current LLM Stats indexes, shared benchmarks, pricing, and model metadata for 2026.

Choose Atria Dawn Preview

  • overall performance matters — it scores 52.3 and ranks #10 on LLM Stats
  • your work emphasizes reasoning — it leads those capability indexes
  • you want the most recent training data — it shipped Sep 2026

Choose Phi-4-multimodal-instruct

  • you want predictable pricing at $0.05/M input and $0.10/M output

At a glance

The differences that matter most.

Atria Dawn Preview
Shanghai AI Laboratory
Phi-4-multimodal-instruct
Microsoft
Core performance indexes
LLM Stats Score
52.3
#10
2.8
#312
Reasoning
50.5
#12
-0.2
#320
Cost, coverage & limits
Benchmark wins
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Input price
— / M
$0.05 / M
Output price
— / M
$0.10 / M
Context window
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128,000

Individual benchmarks

12 reported for Atria Dawn Preview · 15 for Phi-4-multimodal-instruct

No common benchmarks found

Atria Dawn Preview and Phi-4-multimodal-instructdon't have any common benchmark datasets to compare. They may have been evaluated on different testing suites.

Human preference

Blind head-to-head votes and playground preference scores

Model Size

Parameter count comparison

738.4B diff

Atria Dawn Preview has 738.4B more parameters than Phi-4-multimodal-instruct, making it 13185.7% larger.

Shanghai AI Laboratory
Atria Dawn Preview
744.0Bparameters
Microsoft
Phi-4-multimodal-instruct
5.6Bparameters
744.0B
Atria Dawn Preview
5.6B
Phi-4-multimodal-instruct

Context Window

Maximum input and output token capacity

Only Phi-4-multimodal-instruct specifies input context (128,000 tokens). Only Phi-4-multimodal-instruct specifies output context (128,000 tokens).

Shanghai AI Laboratory
Atria Dawn Preview
Input- tokens
Output- tokens
Microsoft
Phi-4-multimodal-instruct
Input128,000 tokens
Output128,000 tokens
Sun Sep 20 2026 • llm-stats.com

Input capabilities

Documented input modalities across available providers

Phi-4-multimodal-instruct supports multimodal inputs, whereas Atria Dawn Preview does not.

Phi-4-multimodal-instruct can handle both text and other forms of data like images, making it suitable for multimodal applications.

Atria Dawn Preview

Text
Images
Audio
Video

Phi-4-multimodal-instruct

Text
Images
Audio
Video

License

Usage and distribution terms

Both models are licensed under MIT.

Both models share the same licensing terms, providing consistent usage rights.

Atria Dawn Preview

MIT

Open weights

Phi-4-multimodal-instruct

MIT

Open weights

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

Atria Dawn Preview was released on 2026-09-11, while Phi-4-multimodal-instruct was released on 2025-02-01.

Atria Dawn Preview is 20 months newer than Phi-4-multimodal-instruct.

Atria Dawn Preview

Sep 11, 2026

1 weeks ago

1.6yr newer
Phi-4-multimodal-instruct

Feb 1, 2025

1.6 years ago

Knowledge Cutoff

When training data ends

Phi-4-multimodal-instruct has a documented knowledge cutoff of 2024-06-01, while Atria Dawn Preview's cutoff date is not specified.

We can confirm Phi-4-multimodal-instruct's training data extends to 2024-06-01, but cannot make a direct comparison without Atria Dawn Preview's cutoff date.

Atria Dawn Preview

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Phi-4-multimodal-instruct

Jun 2024

Outputs Comparison

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Judge for yourself.

Run your own prompts against Atria Dawn Preview and Phi-4-multimodal-instruct side-by-side, then vote on the output you prefer.

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FAQ

Common questions about Atria Dawn Preview vs Phi-4-multimodal-instruct.

Which is better, Atria Dawn Preview or Phi-4-multimodal-instruct?

Atria Dawn Preview leads the LLM Stats Score 52.3 to 2.8. Atria Dawn Preview is made by Shanghai AI Laboratory and Phi-4-multimodal-instruct is made by Microsoft. The best choice depends on your use case — compare their capability indexes, individual benchmarks, pricing, and limits above.

How does Atria Dawn Preview compare to Phi-4-multimodal-instruct in benchmarks?

Atria Dawn Preview scores DeepSearchQA: 96.0%, BrowseComp: 92.5%, CyberGym: 86.5%, MLE-Bench Lite: 86.2%, WideSearch: 81.9%. Phi-4-multimodal-instruct scores ScienceQA Visual: 97.5%, DocVQA: 93.2%, MMBench: 86.7%, POPE: 85.6%, OCRBench: 84.4%.

What are the context window sizes for Atria Dawn Preview and Phi-4-multimodal-instruct?

Atria Dawn Preview supports an unknown number of tokens and Phi-4-multimodal-instruct supports 128K tokens. A larger context window lets you process longer documents, conversations, or codebases in a single request.

What are the main differences between Atria Dawn Preview and Phi-4-multimodal-instruct?

Key differences include LLM Stats Score (52.3 vs 2.8), multimodal support (no vs yes). See the full comparison above for benchmark-by-benchmark results.

Who makes Atria Dawn Preview and Phi-4-multimodal-instruct?

Atria Dawn Preview is developed by Shanghai AI Laboratory and Phi-4-multimodal-instruct is developed by Microsoft.

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