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Why use Phi-3 Vision on Microsoft Foundry?
Microsoft Foundry offers Phi-3 Vision with pay-as-you-go pricing at $0.28/1M input tokens. Microsoft Foundry is a unified Azure platform-as-a-service offering for enterprise AI operations, model builders, and application development.
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Compare Phi-3 Vision Across Providers
| Provider | Input (per 1M) | Output (per 1M) |
|---|---|---|
| Microsoft Foundry | $0.28 | $0.84 |
| Fireworks AI | $0.20 | $0.20 |
| NVIDIA NIM | — | — |
Pricing
| Type | Price (per 1M) |
|---|---|
| Input tokens | $0.28 |
| Output tokens | $0.84 |
Capabilities
About Phi-3 Vision
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.