Phi 3.5 Mini Instruct
Phi 3.5 Mini Instruct is worth evaluating for long context when its provider route and context window match the workload.
Use it for
- Teams evaluating long context
- Workloads that can use a 128k context window
- Buyers comparing 2 tracked provider routes
Do not use it for
- Vision or document-understanding workloads
- Strict JSON or tool-calling flows
- Family
- Phi-3
- Released
- 2024-08-20
- Context
- 128k
- Parameters
- 3.8B
- Architecture
- Decoder Only
- Knowledge cutoff
- 2023-10
- Specialization
- general
- License
- MIT
- Training
- finetuned
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Cheapest of 2 routes · Fireworks AI
About
Phi 3.5 Mini Instruct is Microsoft Research's Phi-3 model. It offers a 128K-token context window with weights openly available for self-hosting.
Phi 3.5 Mini Instruct is an open-source model in the Phi-3 family. The structured metadata tracks a 128k-token context window. This page tracks provider routes through Fireworks AI and NVIDIA NIM, with the cheapest tracked route listed at $0.9 input and $0.9 output per 1M tokens. No headline benchmark score is tracked for Phi 3.5 Mini Instruct yet.
Top use-case fit
Long context
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fireworks AI | $0.900 | $0.900 | Serverless |
| NVIDIA NIM | - | - | ServerlessPartial |
Capabilities
No model capability flags are currently sourced.
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.