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# Microsoft: Phi 4 — price, capability and what beats it · Undominated.ai

> Microsoft: Phi 4: $0.070/M in, $0.140/M out. Independent capability scores, context-tier pricing, and the models that are both better and cheaper.

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# Phi 4

Microsoft · released 2025-01-10 · mit

 $0.087 per million tokens, balanced Balanced Summarise Chat Code gen Agentic

## No independent quality score.

No benchmark we track has measured this model. That is not the same as measuring it and finding it wanting — we simply cannot rank it, so we do not.

### Every price dimension

| Input | $0.070 /M |
| --- | --- |
| Output | $0.140 /M |

### Independent scores

| LMArena Elo | 1216.8 default |
| --- | --- |

Sources are listed separately rather than averaged. Across the 62 models both have scored they correlate at r = 0.806 — close agreement overall, but four models rank very differently between them, and a blended score would hide exactly those.

### Capability

| Context window | 16K |
| --- | --- |
| Max output | 16K |
| Input modes | text |
| Tool use | no |
| Reasoning | no |
| Knowledge cutoff | 2024-06-30 |
| Open weights | yes |

### Provenance

| Price source | openrouter.ai |
| --- | --- |
| Fetched | 2026-08-24 |
| Quality data | unrated |
| Cross-checked | vendor page |

[Microsoft Research](/microsoft) Phi-4 is designed to perform well in complex reasoning tasks and can operate efficiently in situations with limited memory or where quick responses are needed. At 14 billion...