Phi-3 Vision
phi-3-vision
Last refreshed 2026-05-16. Next refresh: weekly.
Phi-3 Vision is worth evaluating for long context and vision when its provider route and context window match the workload.
Decision context: Long context task fit, 3 tracked provider routes, and research from 2026-01-01.
Use it for
- Teams evaluating long context and vision
- Workloads that can use a 128K context window
- Buyers comparing 3 tracked provider routes
Do not use it for
- Strict JSON or tool-calling flows
Cheapest output
$0.200
Fireworks AI per 1M tokens
Provider routes
3
Tracked API hosts
Quality / dollar
Unknown
No task benchmark coverage yet
Freshness
2026-01-01
Researched 144d ago
Top use-case fit
Long context
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
Vision
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
Provider price ladder
Compare all 3| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Route |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fireworks AI | $0.200 | $0.200 | Serverless |
| Microsoft Foundry | $0.280 | $0.840 | Provisioned |
| NVIDIA NIM | - | - | ProvisionedPartial |
Benchmark peer barsfor Long context
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 Vision is a sophisticated multimodal AI model from Microsoft, designed to adeptly integrate language and vision capabilities. Unlike traditional language models, it processes both text and images and can perform tasks such as optical character recognition, chart analysis, and image interpretation. Its architecture features an image encoder, a text-image connector, a projector for mapping image features, and the Phi-3 Mini language model. Despite its relatively small size of 4.2 billion parameters, it competes with larger models and suits devices with limited computational power. Phi-3 Vision's ability to handle up to 128K tokens supports complex multimodal reasoning. It draws upon high-quality and synthetic data for training while incorporating essential safety measures.
Phi-3 Vision has a 128K-token context window.
Phi-3 Vision input tokens at $0.2/1M, output at $0.2/1M.
