MicrosoftReleased on Feb 1, 2025

Phi-4-multimodal-instruct: Benchmarks, Pricing & Size

Phi-4-multimodal-instruct is a language model from Microsoft, released in February 2025, with multimodal input.

Phi-4-multimodal-instruct is a lightweight (5.57B parameters) open multimodal foundation model that leverages research and datasets from Phi-3.5 and 4.0. It processes text, image, and audio inputs to generate text outputs, supporting a

Input
TextImage
Output
Text
Speed
Latency p95500ms
Throughput P9525.0char/s
Cost
$0.06/ 1M · 8:1 in:out
$0.05 in · $0.10 out

Phi-4-multimodal-instruct pricing

Providers

Phi-4-multimodal-instruct starts at $0.0500 per million input tokens and $0.100 per million output tokens via DeepInfra.

ProviderInput $/MOutput $/MMax InputMax OutputLatency p95 sThroughput P95QuantInputOutput
DeepInfra logoDeepInfra
$0.0500$0.100128.0K128.0K
0.50
25 c/s
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Phi-4-multimodal-instruct model size

Phi-4-multimodal-instruct has 5.6 billion parameters and was trained on 5 trillion tokens. See how it compares to other models in the same parameter range.

ParametersTraining tokens
5.6B
5Ttokens
893× tokens-to-params ratio
Small (3–10B)
5.6B
1B7B70B405B

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Phi-4-multimodal-instruct license

Phi-4-multimodal-instruct is released under the MIT license, which permits commercial use, has 5.6B parameters, has a knowledge cutoff of June 2024.

License
MIT
Commercial use allowed
Parameters
5.6B
Knowledge cutoff
June 2024

MIT License - allows commercial use

FAQ

Common questions about Phi-4-multimodal-instruct.

When was Phi-4-multimodal-instruct released?

Phi-4-multimodal-instruct was released on February 1, 2025 by Microsoft. This is the official Phi-4-multimodal-instruct release date tracked on LLM Stats.

How big is Phi-4-multimodal-instruct?

Phi-4-multimodal-instruct has 5.6 billion parameters. It was trained on 5.0 trillion tokens. It ships as an open-weight model, so you can download and run it on your own hardware.

Who created Phi-4-multimodal-instruct?

Phi-4-multimodal-instruct was created by Microsoft.

What is the license for Phi-4-multimodal-instruct?

Phi-4-multimodal-instruct is released under the MIT license. This is an open-source / open-weight license that permits self-hosting.

What is the knowledge cutoff date for Phi-4-multimodal-instruct?

Phi-4-multimodal-instruct has a knowledge cutoff of June 2024, meaning it was trained on data up to that point and may not know about events after it.

Is Phi-4-multimodal-instruct multimodal?

Yes, Phi-4-multimodal-instruct is multimodal and can accept both text and images as input.

Where can I use Phi-4-multimodal-instruct?

Phi-4-multimodal-instruct is available through 1 provider including DeepInfra.

Where is the Phi-4-multimodal-instruct paper or technical report?

Phi-4-multimodal-instruct has a paper or technical report available at https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.01743. Use that source for architecture, training, release and evaluation details.