Phi 4 Reasoning

Name: Phi 4 Reasoning
Author: Microsoft Research

Released

2025-01-01

Last refreshed

2026-06-04

Status

Researched 118d ago

Open sourceCommercial use: permittedLong context

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Specifications

Family: Phi-4
Released: 2025-01-01
Context: 128k
Parameters: 14B
Architecture: Decoder Only
Knowledge cutoff: 2025-03
Specialization: reasoning
Openness: Open source
License: MITOSI-approvedCommercial use: permitted
Weights: Unknown
Code: Unknown
Training: Pretrained

Created by

Microsoft Research

Advancing the state-of-the-art in AI and computing.

Redmond, Washington, United States

Founded 1991

Website

Pricing

Output / 1M

$0.500

Input / 1M

$0.500

Cheapest of 2 routes · Fireworks AI

Providers(2)

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About

Phi 4 Reasoning is Microsoft Research's Phi-4 model focused on step-by-step reasoning. It offers a 128K-token context window with weights openly available for self-hosting and scores 65.8 on GPQA.

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Provider	Input / 1M	Output / 1M	Route
Fireworks AI	$0.500	$0.500	Serverless
Microsoft Foundry	-	-	ServerlessPartial

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Capabilities

Reasoning

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