Multimodal model for analyzing text, images, documents, and rich media
Phi 4 Multimodal by microsoft is offered by 4 providers on this page. Public prices are shown for 3 of them. Its official list price is $0.08 per 1M input tokens and $0.32 per 1M output tokens. It also has 1 free ($0) channel; free tiers usually carry rate limits, and subscription-covered access bills $0 per token only after the subscription fee.
Artificial Analysis rates it 5.8 on the Intelligence Index. Against its lowest blended price of $0.08 per 1M, that is roughly 73 index points per dollar, which is the value ratio the leaderboards rank on.
The context window is 128,000 tokens, with an output limit of 4,096 tokens. Accepted input modalities are Text, Image, and Audio. The weights are open, so it can also be self-hosted or served through a gateway of your choice. Providers report the capability flags inconsistently, so verify a specific feature against the host you plan to use. Its training knowledge cuts off at 2023-10.
Quality is independently evaluated by Artificial Analysis. Speed/latency are model-level medians.
| Provider | Tier | Input | Output | Cache read | Cache write | Context | Output limit | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nvidia | Cloud | Free | — | — | 128,000 | 16,384 | deprecated | |
| NanoGPT | Gateway | $0.07 | $0.11 | $0.035 | — | 128,000 | 16,384 | |
| AzureOfficial phi-4-multimodal | Cloud | $0.08 | $0.32 | — | — | 128,000 | 4,096 | |
| Azure Cognitive ServicesOfficial phi-4-multimodal | Cloud | $0.08 | $0.32 | — | — | 128,000 | 4,096 |
Sorted by blended price (input×0.75 + output×0.25) asc. The official channel always shows regardless of rank. Whether a gateway's low price is actually usable can't be verified.
| Provider | Audio in | Audio out |
|---|---|---|
| Azure | $4.0050.0× | — |
| Azure Cognitive Services | $4.0050.0× | — |
Audio tokens are priced on a separate scale from text tokens, so these are not comparable with the text prices above. The multiplier compares each price with the same provider's text price for the same direction.
1 more channels offer $0 (Nvidia); free tiers usually have rate limits and no SLA, excluded from ranking.
Individual evaluations run by Artificial Analysis, on the same reasoning tier as the intelligence score above. Each benchmark has its own task set and harness, so rows are not comparable with one another. The Intelligence Index above draws on a different, newer set of evaluations.