Model

Phi-3-medium (14B)

OPEN

Microsoft · Phi-3 family · released May 21, 2024

Largest dense Phi-3 checkpoint (~78% MMLU); top of the Phi-3 quality-cost curve, 4K/128K context, MIT-licensed.

ReasoningCodingVisionFunction callingTool useAgentic

757.6

Elo · rank #257

Parameters

14B

Active params

14B (dense)

Context

128K tokens

Architecture

Dense decoder-only transformer, 4K/128K context variants

License

MIT

Languages

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API price (in/out)

$0.17 / $0.68

Modalities

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Benchmark results

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

AGIEvalReasoning50.2%#18

best: OLMo 3-Think 32B · 88.2%

ANLIReasoning55.8%#2

best: Phi-3-small (7B) · 58.1%

ARC-ChallengeReasoning91.6%#21

best: Llama 3.1 405B · 96.9%

ARC-EasyReasoning97.7%#1

best: this model · 97.7%

BIG-Bench HardReasoning81.4%#30

best: ERNIE 4.5 300B-A47B · 94.3%

GSM8KMath91.0%#36

best: Llama 3.1 405B · 96.8%

HellaSwagReasoning82.4%#66

best: Claude 3 Opus · 95.4%

HumanEvalCoding62.2%#99

best: Claude Opus 4.5 · 99.4%

LogicKorHuman preference4.64#28

best: GPT-4o · 9.33

MBPPCoding75.2%#24

best: Llama-3.3-Nemotron-Super-49B v1 (Reasoning On) · 91.3%

MMLU (EU-21 languages)Knowledge57.4%#6

best: Llama 3.1 70B · 77.1%

MMLUKnowledge78.0%#107

best: OpenAI o3 · 92.9%

OpenBookQAReasoning87.4%#4

best: Claude 1 · 90.8%

PIQAReasoning87.9%#5

best: GPT-4o mini · 93.1%

Social IQaReasoning80.2%#2

best: Apple DCLM-Baseline 7B · 82.9%

TriviaQAKnowledge73.9%#17

best: Sarvam-1 (2B) · 90.6%

TruthfulQAKnowledge75.1%#2

best: Phi-3.5-MoE (16x3.8B, 6.6B active) · 77.5%

WinoGrandeReasoning81.5%#28

best: PaLM 2 · 90.9%

Run it locally

VRAM @ Q4

9 GB

VRAM @ FP16

28 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 · GPTQ · AWQ · MLX

Phi-3 family

Elo progression across releases

Phi-3-mini (3.8B)Apr 2024479.2 Phi-3-medium (14B)May 2024757.6 Phi-3-small (7B)May 2024658.0

Resources

HFmicrosoft/Phi-3-medium-4k-instruct GHmicrosoft/Phi-3CookBook DOCSarxiv.org/abs/2404.14219 APIAvailable via Microsoft API

API price $0.17/$0.68 · each benchmark row carries its own source badge (see methodology)