Phi 4 API Pricing 2026

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Last updated: January 22, 2026 at 08:06 AM

Overview

Phi 4 was released on January 10, 2025. Pricing starts at $0.060 per million input tokens and $0.140 per million output tokens. The model supports a context window of up to 16K tokens. API access is available through Microsoft.

Context Window

16K

tokens

Pricing

Input$0.060

Output$0.140

per 1M tokens

Speed

Output11 tok/s

TTFT0.58s

median latency

Capabilities

Tools

Pricing Comparison

Compare Phi 4 with 10 similar models by price.

Current Pricing (per 1M tokens)

11 models

Provider	Model	Input $/M	Output $/M	Coding	MMLU	GPQA	Context	Actions
MS Microsoft	Phi 4	$0.060	$0.140	23.1	71.4	57.5	16,384	Try
O OpenAI	GPT-5 Nano	$0.050	$0.400	78.9	78.0	67.6	400,000	Try
Z Z-ai	GLM 4.5 Air	$0.050	$0.220	68.4	81.5	73.3	131,072	Try
QW Qwen	Qwen3 14B	$0.050	$0.220	28.0	67.5	47.0	40,960	Try
QW Qwen	Qwen2.5 VL 32B Instruct	$0.050	$0.220	24.8	69.7	46.6	16,384	Try
QW Qwen	Qwen-Turbo	$0.050	$0.200	16.3	63.3	41.0	1,000,000	Try
QW Qwen	Qwen3 8B	$0.050	$0.250	20.2	64.3	45.2	32,000	Try
QW Qwen	Qwen3 30B A3B Thinking 2507	$0.051	$0.340	—	—	—	32,768	Try
NV Nvidia	Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B	$0.060	$0.240	36.0	57.9	39.9	262,144	Try
MI Mistral AI	Mistral Small 3.2 24B	$0.060	$0.180	27.5	68.1	50.5	131,072	Try
QW Qwen	Qwen3 30B A3B	$0.060	$0.220	32.2	71.0	51.5	40,960	Try

* Some models use tiered pricing based on prompt length. Displayed prices are for prompts ≤ 200k tokens.

Compare Providers

Phi 4 is available from multiple providers with different pricing and availability.

Providers

$0.060

Cheapest Input/M

$0.140

Cheapest Output/M

NextBit

Best Price

Provider Pricing

2 models

Provider	Input $/M	Output $/M	Uptime
N NextBit Best Price	$0.060	$0.140	100.0%
D DeepInfra	$0.070	$0.140	100.0%

Provider pricing data sourced from OpenRouter and Helicone

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Detailed Benchmark Scores

Intelligence

13.2 (19th pct)

Coding

11.2 (27th pct)

Math

18.0 (19th pct)

MMLU Pro

71.4 (36th pct)

GPQA

57.5 (44th pct)

LiveCodeBench

23.1 (16th pct)

AIME

14.3 (30th pct)

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Benchmark data from Artificial Analysis and HuggingFace Open LLM Leaderboard

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