Phi-3 Mini 128K Instruct

Microsoft chat Free

API ID: microsoft/phi-3-mini-128k-instruct

Input Price
Free
/1M tokens
Output Price
Free
/1M tokens

About Phi-3 Mini 128K Instruct

Phi-3 Mini 128K Instruct is Microsoft's compact powerhouse, achieving impressive capability with just 3.8 billion parameters. The model demonstrates that careful data curation and training can produce small models rivaling much larger alternatives. Phi-3 Mini features a 128K context window and excels at reasoning, mathematics, and coding tasks relative to its size. It runs efficiently on consumer hardware, mobile devices, and edge systems while maintaining useful capability. The model is ideal for on-device AI, resource-constrained deployments, and high-volume applications where efficiency matters. Phi-3 Mini's open weights enable fine-tuning and customization for specific domains. For developers building AI features with limited resources, Phi-3 Mini provides remarkable capability in a tiny package. It represents Microsoft's research breakthrough in efficient AI, proving that model quality matters more than raw size.

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Price Ranking
#1 lowest price among 950 Chat models โ€” Top 20% cheapest!

Model Specifications

Context Length
128k
Max Output
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Release Date
2024-05-26
Capabilities
chat
Input Modalities
text
Output Modalities
text

Best For

  • Conversations, content writing, general assistance

Consider Alternatives For

  • Image understanding (needs vision capability)
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Get started with Phi-3 Mini 128K Instruct API

OpenAI-compatible SDK
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.provider.com/v1",
    api_key="YOUR_API_KEY"
)

response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="microsoft/phi-3-mini-128k-instruct",
    messages=[
        {"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}
    ]
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)