Phi-4-mini

MicrosoftMCP Tool Call

microsoft/phi-4-miniOpen Weights

Compact Microsoft instruction model tuned for efficient coding assistance, reasoning, and low-latency agent tasks

Benchmark Pricing$0.17 / 1M in$0.68 / 1M out$0.09 cache read

Context: 128,000 tokens•Max Output: 4,096 tokens•Knowledge: 2024-06•Released: 2025-02-26

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

Context Window128,000128K tokens

Max Output4,0964.1K tokens

LicenseOpen SourceSelf-hostable

Input Modalities

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Function / Tool CallingSupported (MCP Ready)

Structured OutputsGuaranteed Schema

MODEL CONTEXT PROTOCOL (MCP) READINESS

✓ Phi-4-mini natively supports OpenAI / Anthropic format tool calling and is fully compatible with MCP servers and agent loops.

MCP Context Window Recommendations

With a context capacity of 128,000 tokens, this model can handle moderately large MCP tool definitions and multi-turn conversation logs comfortably.

STANDARDIZED BENCHMARKS & EVALS

MMLUaccuracy

67.3

API CALL INVOCATION EXAMPLE

// Example: Calling Phi-4-mini via OpenAI SDK
import OpenAI from "openai";

const client = new OpenAI({
  apiKey: process.env.MICROSOFT_API_KEY,
});

const response = await client.chat.completions.create({
  model: "microsoft/phi-4-mini",
  messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Hello! Can you inspect MCP tools?" }],
});

console.log(response.choices[0].message.content);