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| Attribute | Phi-4-multimodal-instruct Microsoft |
|---|---|
| Summary | A compact Phi model that can understand text, images, and audio in private or edge deployments. |
| Best for | Document vision, speech and image understanding, private multimodal assistants |
| Watch out for | Primarily an understanding model; smaller capacity than large multimodal systems. |
| Family | Phi-4 |
| Type | Multimodal LLM |
| Status | GA / open weights |
| Released | 2025-02-26 |
| Context window | 131.1K |
| Max output | 4.1K |
| Inputs | Text, image, audio |
| Outputs | Text |
| Reasoning | General reasoning |
| Tool calling | Host dependent |
| Structured output | Host dependent |
| API available | Yes and self-hosted |
| Open weights | Yes |
| Self-hostable | Yes |
| License | MIT |
| Price | See provider pricing |