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Phi-4-mini-reasoning

microsoft MIT out 18 months ago

3.84B parameters, text in, text out, 128K tokens of context. 1 provider serves it.

Verified 2026-10-25 Rank #494 in LLMs · score 76.8 method v1 Sources 3 Downloads 30d 38.6k · #400 of 619 tracked

Can I run it?2.3GB at INT4Estimatefits a 16 GB cardmethod
Can I use it?MITPermissivelicence file2026-10-24
Do people use it?38.6kdownloads, 30 days#400 of 619 we track · below the median+3 likes, downloads −12% this week249 likesHugging Face2026-10-24

Worth reading

Picked by rule from 17 tracked pieces: the lab's own post, the most shared, a field report, the latest.

Most discussed · 291 HN pts

Phi 4 available on Ollama

Phi-4 is a 14B parameter open model designed for memory/compute constrained environments and latency bound scenarios.

ollama.com 2025-01-09 291 HN pts · 135 comments 220 words about the phi 4 family family

17 best of 17 tracked

The 2 picks above, plus these 15. Top is the radar's score: discussion, source authority and the lab's own posts, fading with age.

  1. ArticlePhi-4: Microsoft's Newest Small Language Model Specializing in Complex Reasoningtechcommunity.microsoft.com · 2024-12-13 · 439 HN pts · official
  2. ArticlePhi-4 Reasoning Modelsazure.microsoft.com · 2025-05-01 · 131 HN pts · official
  3. ArticlePhi-4 Bug Fixesunsloth.ai · 2025-01-10 · 193 HN pts
  4. ArticleMicrosoft announces Phi-4-multimodal and Phi-4-miniazure.microsoft.com · 2025-02-26 · 48 HN pts · official
  5. ArticleIntroducing Phi-4-mini-flash-reasoningazure.microsoft.com · 2025-07-09 · 6 HN pts · official
  6. ArticlePhi-4-mini and Phi-4-multimodaltechcommunity.microsoft.com · 2025-03-01 · 5 HN pts · official
  7. ArticleMicrosoft Phi-4 reasoning technical report [pdf]microsoft.com · 2025-05-01 · 2 HN pts · official
  8. ArticlePhi-4 Technical Reportsimonwillison.net · 2024-12-16 · 5 HN pts
  9. ArticleMicrosoft debuts Phi-4, new generative AI modeltechcrunch.com · 2024-12-13
  10. PaperPhi-4 Technical Reportarxiv.org · 2024-12-13
  11. ArticleMicrosoft makes powerful Phi-4 model open-source on Hugging Faceventurebeat.com · 2025-01-09
  12. ArticlePhi-4 as LLM-as-Judge rivals specialized evaluator models wo/ finetuningflow-ai.com · 2025-01-22
  13. ArticleMicrosoft's smaller AI model beats the big guys: Meet Phi-4, the efficiency kingventurebeat.com · 2024-12-13
  14. ArticleReviewing Post-Training Techniques: DeepSeek, Qwen-2, and Phi-4brianfitzgerald.xyz · 2025-01-07
  15. ArticleNew for 2025 – more local models in Pieces, including Qwen Coder and Phi-4pieces.app · 2025-01-31

Where to run it

Live hosted endpoints, cheapest first, USD per million tokens. Ties break on output price, then provider name.

#Cheapest live rowIn /1MOut /1MContextQuantSeen
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Where it's used

Hugging Face does not say who downloads a model or with what. These are the proxies: API providers listing it, quantized builds, fine-tunes/adapters/merges, and Spaces that load it.

Served by 1 API provider; 44 quantized builds for local use.

  • As a service1Featherless
  • On own hardware44quantized builds
  • Built on3726 fine-tunes · 10 adapters · 1 merges
  • In apps10Hugging Face Spaces

Top Spaces running it: KavinduHansaka/AI-Powered_Disease_Diagnostic_Assistant ♥ 2

Will it fit?

Weights only, an estimate: leave room for the KV cache. Method

Fits a 16 GB card at INT4

About 2.3 GB at INT4, 4.6 GB at FP8, 9.2 GB at BF16: weights only, so leave room for the KV cache.

16 GB card64 GB Mac2×80 GB8×80 GBINT4: about 2.3 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)INT42.3 GBFP8: about 4.6 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)FP84.6 GBBF16: about 9.2 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)BF169.2 GB
16 GB card64 GB Mac2×80 GB8×80 GBINT4: about 2.3 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)INT42.3 GBFP8: about 4.6 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)FP84.6 GBBF16: about 9.2 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)BF169.2 GB

Estimate params × bytes per param × 1.2 · how we estimate

The story so far

Weights, every dated article, and repo commits on one rail.

Most coverage came in the first two weeks

Teal is the weights (2025-04-29), amber triangles are 10 dated articles (each links to it), grey ticks are repo commits.

What people built on it

81 derivatives on the Hub. Which build to run, by runtime: the most downloaded in each class.

81 derivatives on the Hub, most of them quantized

From the Hugging Face model tree; quantized builds in teal, fine-tunes, merges and adapters in greys.

44 quantized (Hugging Face model tree)26 fine-tunes (Hugging Face model tree)1 merge (Hugging Face model tree)10 adapters (Hugging Face model tree)44 quantized26 fine-tunes1 merge10 adapters
44 quantized (Hugging Face model tree)26 fine-tunes (Hugging Face model tree)1 merge (Hugging Face model tree)10 adapters (Hugging Face model tree)44 quantized26 fine-tunes1 merge10 adapters

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Reference

Everything else, folded: the full tables, every source.

Benchmarks

3 rows

Benchmarks 3 rows

measured third-party leaderboard rowauthor-reported number from the model card or eval files (3)No confidence intervals unless the source gave them; settings differ between rows, so compare within a benchmark, not across. Date = the benchmark's own date when it gives one, else when we read it.
BenchmarkValueSetting / notesReported byDate
author-reported AIME 2024 · Reason through hard problems57.5Phi-4-mini-reasoning (3.8B)model author2026-10-07
author-reported GPQA Diamond · Reason through hard problems52Phi-4-mini-reasoning (3.8B)model author2026-10-07
author-reported MATH-500 · Reason through hard problems94.6Phi-4-mini-reasoning (3.8B)model author2026-10-07

What the card says

2 cited sentences

Summary generated, cited

Phi-4-mini-reasoning is a 3.84B parameter transformer-based language model developed by microsoft for mathematical reasoning tasks.[1][2][3] The model supports a 128K token context length and is released under the MIT license.[4][5]

  1. parameters human
  2. organization
  3. “compact transformer-based language model optimized for ma…”
  4. “supports 128K token context length”
  5. license

Generated 2026-10-07 15:11 UTC by parasail-gemma-4-26b-a4b-it; each numeral points at the fact it rests on. Not a verdict.

Use-case evidence

6 use cases

What it is good at 6 use cases

Labels are evidence, not verdicts: measured a third-party leaderboard row for this model; author-reported a number the model author published in the card or eval files; structural a deterministic signal from the name, config or chat template, or a decision-model estimate. Each chip links to its source. All use cases.

Facts

22 fields

Listed in LLMs

Facts

Pipeline tagtext-generation
Librarytransformers
ArchitecturesPhi3ForCausalLM
Model typephi3
Dtypebfloat16
Params by dtypeBF16: 3,836,021,760
Size bandM
MoEno
Context length131,072 (config.json max_position_embeddings)
Languagesen
PapersarXiv:2504.21233
LicenseMIT (mit)
Hub snapshot2026-10-25

Servability

vLLM · SGLang

Servability

vLLM: supported · Phi3ForCausalLM · 7050ef881ff0835f6890a47db1859a24c65481d6SGLang: supported · Phi3ForCausalLM · 773cb938fe9484a8f7e7e46fb1b1fe96412c59ed

vLLM registry (7050ef881ff0835f6890a47db1859a24c65481d6) · SGLang registry (773cb938fe9484a8f7e7e46fb1b1fe96412c59ed) · Matched by architecture class name against each project's registry on main; 'supported' means the architecture is registered, not that this checkpoint was tested.

Hardware fit

3 estimates

Hardware fit ESTIMATE

Weights-only memory for Phi-4-mini-reasoning: params × bytes/param × 1.2 overhead. KV cache and activations are extra. How this is computed.

BF16 (2 bytes/param)9.2 GB · Single GPU (<24 GB)
FP8 (1 byte/param)4.6 GB · Single GPU (<24 GB)
INT4 (0.5 bytes/param)2.3 GB · Edge (<4 GB)

Weights only (params × bytes/param × 1.2 overhead); KV cache and activations extra.

All variants

40 variants

Lineage

Original model Family: microsoft/phi-4 81 derivatives on the Hub

quantized: 44finetune: 26merge: 1adapter: 10

Top variants (40 shown, ranked by downloads)

Relation
Quant
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Variant Relation Quant Params Band License Author Likes Downloads
lmstudio-community/Phi-4-mini-reasoning-MLX-4bit quantized MLX 3.84B M mit lmstudio-community 5 986.3k
lmstudio-community/Phi-4-mini-reasoning-GGUF quantized GGUF — — mit lmstudio-community 6 218.6k
unsloth/Phi-4-mini-reasoning-GGUF quantized GGUF — — mit unsloth 81 177.2k
unsloth/Phi-4-mini-reasoning-unsloth-bnb-4bit quantized -bnb 3.93B M mit unsloth 9 88.5k
bartowski/microsoft_Phi-4-mini-reasoning-GGUF quantized GGUF — — mit bartowski 17 41.3k
unsloth/Phi-4-mini-reasoning finetune — 3.84B M mit unsloth 6 16.9k
unsloth/Phi-4-mini-reasoning-bnb-4bit quantized -bnb 3.94B M mit unsloth 1 8.2k
mlx-community/Phi-4-mini-reasoning-4bit quantized -4bit 3.84B M mit mlx-community 0 7.5k
mradermacher/Phi-4-mini-reasoning-i1-GGUF quantized GGUF — — mit mradermacher 1 7k
mradermacher/Phi-4-mini-reasoning-GGUF quantized GGUF — — mit mradermacher 0 2.9k
litert-community/Phi-4-mini-reasoning quantized — — — mit litert-community 4 2.2k
DevQuasar/microsoft.Phi-4-mini-reasoning-GGUF quantized GGUF — — — DevQuasar 1 2.1k
tensorblock/microsoft_Phi-4-mini-reasoning-GGUF quantized GGUF — — mit tensorblock 0 2k
AbteeXAILab/lumynax-reasoning-phi4-mini-gguf quantized gguf — — mit AbteeXAILab 0 1.2k
mlx-community/Phi-4-mini-reasoning-bf16 finetune -bf16 3.84B M mit mlx-community 2 881
tatsuyaaaaaaa/Phi-4-mini-reasoning-gguf quantized gguf — — mit tatsuyaaaaaaa 0 947
Pinkstack/Phi-4-mini-6b-merge merge — 6.25B M mit Pinkstack 6 566
raj-hitpromo/hit-promo-reasoner finetune — 3.84B M mit raj-hitpromo 3 696
heretic-org/Phi-4-mini-reasoning-heretic finetune — 3.84B M mit heretic-org 5 490
mlx-community/Phi-4-mini-reasoning-8bit quantized -8bit 3.84B M mit mlx-community 0 669
steadyflow/Phi-4-mini-reasoning-AWQ quantized AWQ 3.84B M mit steadyflow 0 618
NikolayKozloff/Phi-4-mini-reasoning-Q8_0-GGUF quantized Q8_0 — — mit NikolayKozloff 3 395
mlx-community/Phi-4-mini-reasoning-6bit quantized — 3.84B M mit mlx-community 1 413
gopalparashar/phi4-mini-reasoning quantized GGUF — — mit gopalparashar 0 443
keisuke-miyako/Phi-4-mini-reasoning-gguf-q4_k_m quantized gguf — — — keisuke-miyako 0 380
vikrai/phi4-vik-rai finetune — — — mit vikrai 1 326
viniciusianni/Phi-4-mini-reasoning-Q4_K_M-GGUF quantized GGUF — — mit viniciusianni 0 360
MCES10-Software/Phi-4-mini-reasoning-mlx-fp16 finetune mlx 3.84B M mit MCES10-Software 0 351
TitleOS/HomePhi4_4B_FP16 finetune — 3.84B M mpl-2.0 TitleOS 1 296
ldostadi/Phi-4-mini-reasoning-Q4_K_M-GGUF quantized GGUF — — mit ldostadi 0 318
DuoNeural/Phi-4-Mini-Reasoning-Abliterated finetune — 3.84B M mit DuoNeural 1 266
SandLogicTechnologies/Phi-4-mini-reasoning-GGUF quantized GGUF — — mit SandLogicTechnologies 1 248
arcAI1/phi-4-mini-reasoning-mlx finetune mlx 3.84B M mit arcAI1 0 294
Siarhei/Phi-4-mini-reasoning-4bit quantized -4bit 3.84B M mit Siarhei 0 289
Bifrost-AI/Phi-4-Mirage-sol-Reasoning-3.8B finetune — 3.84B M mit Bifrost-AI 1 211
viniciusianni/Phi-4-mini-reasoning-Q8_0-GGUF quantized Q8_0 — — mit viniciusianni 0 253
amd/Phi-4-mini-reasoning-onnx-ryzenai-hybrid quantized — — — mit amd 0 235
JulianChang/Phi-4-mini-reasoning-Q8_0-GGUF quantized Q8_0 — — mit JulianChang 0 200
jc-builds/Phi-4-mini-reasoning-GGUF quantized GGUF — — mit jc-builds 0 192
ianlav/Phi-4-mini-reasoning-openvino finetune — — — mit ianlav 0 185

Repository changelog

9 commits

Repository changelog 9 commits

DateCommitSHA
2025-12-10 Update README.md (#4) 0e3b1e2
2025-12-10 Upload data_summary_card.md (#3) a7b58c7
2025-05-01 Update urls 7a8c4e2
2025-05-01 update ccda8a0
2025-05-01 Update README.md c4b3741
2025-04-30 Upload 2 files 9db0932
2025-04-29 fixed inf example 7196d37
2025-04-29 added model files 661e722
2025-04-29 initial commit 079d2f3

All providers

1 provider · 1 endpoint

Where to run 1 providers · 1 endpoints

Hosted endpoints observed for Phi-4-mini-reasoning, sorted by input price (USD per million tokens). Each row names its observer and date; prices change daily, so check the source before quoting.

ProviderModel refContextQuant$/M in$/M outtok/sTTFTToolsStatusObserved
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microsoft/Phi-4-mini-reasoning — — — — — — — live 2026-10-25

Articles and coverage

17 pieces

Ranked by source signals (HN, Lobsters, authority domains, official posts) and recency. Summaries are generated from a stored copy of the article text; every sentence cites a span of that text, and nothing is shown that failed the citation check.

Official7

microsoft.com2026-03-05officialauthorityabout the phi 4 familyHN 93 pts · 11 comments4,049 words
Phi-4-reasoning-vision-15B is a 15 billion parameter open-weight multimodal reasoning model trained with just 200 billion tokens of multimodal data. The model excels at math and science reasoning and understanding user-interfaces, presenting an appealing value relative to popular open-weight models.generated, cited
techcommunity.microsoft.com2024-12-13officialauthorityHN front pageabout the phi 4 familyHN 439 pts · 143 comments5,664 words
Microsoft introduces Phi-4, a 14B parameter small language model designed for complex reasoning in math and language tasks. The model achieves performance through the use of high-quality synthetic datasets, curation of high-quality organic data, and post-training innovations. Phi-4 outperforms much larger models, including Gemini Pro 1.5, on math competition problems.written, reviewed, cited
  • Phi-4 is available on Azure AI Foundry and Hugging Face as of the Dec 12, 2024 announcement.
  • Developers can integrate content safety features into applications easily through a single API.
  • The blog post was updated on Jan 08, 2025, indicating potential changes after the initial release.
azure.microsoft.com2025-05-01officialauthorityHN front pageabout the phi 4 familyHN 131 pts · 26 comments1,007 words
Microsoft releases Phi-4-reasoning, a 14-billion parameter open-weight model, alongside Phi-4-reasoning-plus and Phi-4-mini-reasoning on Azure AI Foundry and HuggingFace. Phi-4-reasoning-plus utilizes 1.5x more tokens than Phi-4-reasoning to deliver higher accuracy, while both models outperform the 671-billion parameter DeepSeek-R1 on the AIME 2025 test. Optimized versions using ONNX are now available for Snapdragon powered Copilot+ PCs to run efficiently on NPUs.written, reviewed, cited
  • Phi-4-reasoning is trained via supervised fine-tuning of Phi-4 on carefully curated reasoning demonstrations from OpenAI o3-mini.
  • Phi-4-mini-reasoning is fine-tuned with synthetic data generated by Deepseek-R1 model to balance efficiency with advanced reasoning ability.
  • The NPU-optimized Phi Silica variant is designed to be preloaded in memory for blazing fast time to first token responses.
azure.microsoft.com2025-02-26officialauthorityabout the phi 4 familyHN 48 pts · 3 comments2,100 words
azure.microsoft.com2025-07-09officialauthorityabout the phi 4 familyHN 6 pts · 1 comments847 words
techcommunity.microsoft.com2025-03-01officialauthorityabout the phi 4 familyHN 5 pts · 1 comments5,908 words
microsoft.com2025-05-01officialauthorityabout the phi 4 familyHN 2 pts · 1 comments

Analysis3

unsloth.ai2025-01-10authorityHN front pageabout the phi 4 familyHN 193 pts · 68 comments
ollama.com2025-01-09HN front pageabout the phi 4 familyHN 291 pts · 135 comments220 words
Phi-4 is a 14B parameter open model designed for memory/compute constrained environments and latency bound scenarios. It supports a context length of 16k tokens and is specifically optimized for reasoning and logic tasks. The model focuses primarily on English, requiring developers to evaluate accuracy and safety before deployment in high-risk scenarios.written, reviewed, cited
simonwillison.net2024-12-16authorityabout the phi 4 familyHN 5 pts · 0 comments740 words
All coverage tracked for this model (17) — append-only, nothing is ever removed
TitleSourcePublishedFirst seenSignals
Phi-4-reasoning-vision and the lessons of training a multimodal reasoning modelmicrosoft.com official2026-03-052026-10-07hn
Introducing Phi-4-mini-flash-reasoningazure.microsoft.com official2025-07-092026-10-07hn
Microsoft Phi-4 reasoning technical report [pdf]microsoft.com official2025-05-012026-10-07hn
Phi-4 Reasoning Modelsazure.microsoft.com official2025-05-012026-10-07hn
Phi-4-mini and Phi-4-multimodaltechcommunity.microsoft.com official2025-03-012026-10-07hn
Microsoft announces Phi-4-multimodal and Phi-4-miniazure.microsoft.com official2025-02-262026-10-07hn
New for 2025 – more local models in Pieces, including Qwen Coder and Phi-4pieces.app2025-01-312026-10-07hn
Phi-4 as LLM-as-Judge rivals specialized evaluator models wo/ finetuningflow-ai.com2025-01-222026-10-07hn
Phi-4 Bug Fixesunsloth.ai2025-01-102026-10-07hn
Phi 4 available on Ollamaollama.com2025-01-092026-10-07hn
Microsoft makes powerful Phi-4 model open-source on Hugging Faceventurebeat.com2025-01-092026-10-07hn
Reviewing Post-Training Techniques: DeepSeek, Qwen-2, and Phi-4brianfitzgerald.xyz2025-01-072026-10-07hn
Phi-4 Technical Reportsimonwillison.net2024-12-162026-10-07hn
Phi-4 Technical Reportarxiv.org2024-12-132026-10-07hn
Microsoft's smaller AI model beats the big guys: Meet Phi-4, the efficiency kingventurebeat.com2024-12-132026-10-07hn
Microsoft debuts Phi-4, new generative AI modeltechcrunch.com2024-12-132026-10-07hn
Phi-4: Microsoft's Newest Small Language Model Specializing in Complex Reasoningtechcommunity.microsoft.com official2024-12-132026-10-07hn

Papers

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Hub snapshot: 2026-10-25 · HF API: 2026-10-24 21:40 UTC · Providers: 2026-10-24 21:44 UTC · Articles: 2026-10-24 21:46 UTC · Summary: 2026-10-07 15:11 UTC · Last verified 2026-10-25

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