Phi-3 Small 8K
Phi-3 Small 8K is worth evaluating for general LLM work when its provider route and context window match the workload.
Use it for
- Teams evaluating general LLM work
- Workloads that can use a 8k context window
- Buyers comparing 2 tracked provider routes
Do not use it for
- Vision or document-understanding workloads
- Strict JSON or tool-calling flows
Advancing the state-of-the-art in AI and computing.
Cheapest of 2 routes · Microsoft Foundry
About
Phi-3 Small 8K is Microsoft Research's Phi-3 model. It offers an 8K-token context window with weights openly available for self-hosting.
Phi-3 Small 8K is an open-source model in the Phi-3 family. The structured metadata tracks a 8k-token context window. This page tracks provider routes through Microsoft Foundry and NVIDIA NIM, with the cheapest tracked route listed at $0.32 input and $0.96 output per 1M tokens. No headline benchmark score is tracked for Phi-3 Small 8K yet.
Top use-case fit
No primary decision-task fit is mapped for this model yet.
Provider price ladder
Compare all 2Compare API pricing across 2 providers for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.
| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Route |
|---|---|---|---|
| Microsoft Foundry | $0.320 | $0.960 | ServerlessProvisioned |
| NVIDIA NIM | - | - | ProvisionedPartial |
Available via routers & gateways(6)
LiteLLM
GatewayOpen-source Python SDK and proxy server that unifies 100+ LLM APIs behind a single OpenAI-compatible interface, with load balancing, cost tracking, and configurable failover.
Portkey
GatewayProduction AI gateway routing to 1,600+ LLMs with failover, load balancing, semantic caching, and guardrails; Apache 2.0 core is fully self-hostable with the complete feature set.
Azure AI Foundry Model Router
RouterMicrosoft Azure AI Foundry's native model router that uses a trained ML model to route each prompt in real time to the optimal Azure-hosted model, with Balanced/Cost/Quality mode selection and automatic failover.
Helicone
GatewayObservability-first AI gateway with routing, caching, rate limiting, and request tracing; Apache 2.0 open-source core with a managed hosted tier for logging and analytics.
Kong AI Gateway
GatewayMulti-LLM AI gateway built on Kong Gateway 3.x, adding semantic routing, load balancing, guardrails, and MCP traffic analytics as plugins over Kong's existing API management platform.
NVIDIA LLM Router Blueprint
RouterNVIDIA's open-source AI blueprint for LLM routing that selects the optimal model per prompt via intent classification or neural auto-routing; being deprecated 2026-06-20.
Capabilities
No model capability flags are currently sourced.
Benchmark peer barsfor Coding
No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.
Migration checks
No linked migration route is available for this model yet.
Frequently asked questions
What is the context window of Phi-3 Small 8K?
Phi-3 Small 8K has a context window of 8k tokens.
How much does Phi-3 Small 8K cost?
Phi-3 Small 8K is available at $0.32/1M input tokens through Microsoft Foundry.
When was Phi-3 Small 8K released?
Phi-3 Small 8K was released on 2024-05-21.
Which providers offer Phi-3 Small 8K?
Phi-3 Small 8K is available from 2 providers: Microsoft Foundry, NVIDIA NIM.
Advancing the state-of-the-art in AI and computing.
Cheapest of 2 routes · Microsoft Foundry