Model

Phi-3.5-vision (4.2B)

OPEN

Microsoft · Phi-3.5 family · released Aug 20, 2024

Multimodal Phi with 4.2B params and 128K context; adds multi-frame image understanding over Phi-3-vision.

ReasoningCodingVisionFunction callingTool useAgentic

532.4

Elo · unrated

Parameters

4.2B

Active params

4.2B (dense)

Context

128K tokens

Architecture

Dense decoder-only Transformer + vision encoder/connector (Phi-3 Mini backbone)

License

MIT

Languages

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API price (in/out)

$0.13 / $0.52

Modalities

text · vision

Benchmark results

Bar shows position within the tracked field; marker = field best

AI2DVision78.1%#37

best: Molmo 72B · 96.3%

ChartQAVision81.8%#27

best: MiniMax-VL-01 · 91.7%

MathVistaVision43.9%#58

best: Seed 2.1 Pro · 90.7%

MMBenchVision81.9%#1

best: this model · 81.9%

MMMUVision43.0%#103

best: Claude Fable 5 · 89.3%

TextVQAVision72.0%#21

best: Molmo 2 8B · 85.7%

Video-MMEVision50.8%#24

best: Seed 2.1 Pro · 89.2%

Run it locally

VRAM @ Q4

4 GB

VRAM @ FP16

9 GB

Fits on (Q4)

RTX 3060 12GBRTX 4070 Ti 16GBRTX 3090 24GBRTX 4090 24GBRTX 5090 32GBM4 Pro 48GBM3 Max 128GBM3 Ultra 512GBA100 80GBH100 80GBH200 141GBB200 192GB

Throughput data unavailable.

Quantizations

GGUF Q4 · MLX 4-bit

Phi-3.5 family

Elo progression across releases

Phi-3.5-mini (3.8B)Aug 2024477.1 Phi-3.5-MoE (16x3.8B, 6.6B active)Aug 2024791.5 Phi-3.5-vision (4.2B)Aug 2024532.4

Resources

HFmicrosoft/Phi-3.5-vision-instruct GHmicrosoft/PhiCookBook DOCStechcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/discover-the-new-multi-lingual-high-quality-phi-3-5-slms/4225280 APIAvailable via Microsoft API

API price $0.13/$0.52 · each benchmark row carries its own source badge (see methodology)