Parse vs Phi 4
Comparing Parse and Phi 4 across benchmarks, pricing, and capabilities.
Cohere · Microsoft · Updated for 2026
Which is better?
Parse and Phi 4 trade strengths across price, capabilities, and technical limits. The better choice depends on the workload.
Phi 4 also accepts a larger context window (16,000 input tokens), making it the stronger choice for long documents and large codebases.
Based on current LLM Stats indexes, shared benchmarks, pricing, and model metadata for 2026.
Choose Parse
- you want the most recent training data — it shipped Aug 2026
Choose Phi 4
- you process long inputs — it offers a 16,000 token context window
- you need open weights you can self-host or fine-tune
At a glance
The differences that matter most.
Individual benchmarks
1 reported for Parse · 13 for Phi 4
Parse and Phi 4don'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
Phi 4 has 12.4B more parameters than Parse, making it 539.1% larger.
Context Window
Maximum input and output token capacity
Phi 4 accepts 16,000 input tokens compared to Parse's 8,192 tokens. Only Phi 4 specifies output context (16,000 tokens).
Input capabilities
Documented input modalities across available providers
Parse supports multimodal inputs, whereas Phi 4 does not.
Parse can handle both text and other forms of data like images, making it suitable for multimodal applications.
Parse
Phi 4
License
Usage and distribution terms
Parse is licensed under a proprietary license, while Phi 4 uses MIT.
License differences may affect how you can use these models in commercial or open-source projects.
Proprietary
Closed source
MIT
Open weights
Release Timeline
When each model was launched
Parse was released on 2026-08-27, while Phi 4 was released on 2024-12-12.
Parse is 21 months newer than Phi 4.
Aug 27, 2026
6 days ago
1.7yr newerDec 12, 2024
1.7 years ago
Knowledge Cutoff
When training data ends
Phi 4 has a documented knowledge cutoff of 2024-06-01, while Parse's cutoff date is not specified.
We can confirm Phi 4's training data extends to 2024-06-01, but cannot make a direct comparison without Parse's cutoff date.
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Jun 2024
Provider Availability
Parse is available from Azure, Cohere. Phi 4 is available from DeepInfra.
Parse
Phi 4
Outputs Comparison
Judge for yourself.
Run your own prompts against Parse and Phi 4 side-by-side, then vote on the output you prefer.
FAQ
Common questions about Parse vs Phi 4.