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Phi-3 Small 8K

phi-3-small-8k

Researched 6d ago

Last refreshed 2026-05-19. Next refresh: weekly.

Open Source

Phi-3 Small 8K is worth evaluating for general LLM work when its provider route and context window match the workload.

Decision context: Coding task fit, 2 tracked provider routes, and research from 2026-05-19.

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

Cheapest output

$0.960

Microsoft Foundry per 1M tokens

Provider routes

2

Tracked API hosts

Quality / dollar

Unknown

No task benchmark coverage yet

Freshness

2026-05-19

Researched 6d ago

fresh

Top use-case fit

No primary decision-task fit is mapped for this model yet.

Provider price ladder

Compare all 2
ProviderInput / 1MOutput / 1MRoute
Microsoft Foundry$0.320$0.960
ServerlessProvisioned
NVIDIA NIM--
ProvisionedPartial

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.

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 has a 8K-token context window.

Phi-3 Small 8K input tokens at $0.32/1M, output at $0.96/1M.

Capabilities

No model capability flags are currently sourced.

Rankings

Specifications

FamilyPhi-3
Released2024-05-21
Parameters7B
Context8K
ArchitectureDecoder Only
Knowledge cutoff2023-10
Specializationgeneral
Trainingfinetuned

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