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phi-2

Base (non-instruct) 2.7B research model, still the most-downloaded Microsoft checkpoint on Hugging Face and a common fine-tuning starting point — but a 2K context and no chat tuning make it unsuitable for production assistants.

Data checked 2026-09-06

Microsoft deprecated open weights microsoft/phi-2

Context window
2K tokens in
Max output
Input
per 1M tokens
Output
per 1M tokens
Knowledge cutoff
2023-10
Released
2023-12-13
Parameters
2.7B
Licence
MIT

A What it is for

B Capabilities

Not documented.
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Output modalitiestext

C Others from Microsoft

Model Context Max out In $/M Out $/M Blended Status
MAI-Thinking-1 MAI-Thinking-1 256K 64K $2.00 $8.00 $3.50 preview
MAI-Cyber-1-Flash MAI-Cyber-1-Flash $0.60 $3.50 $1.32 preview
MAI-Image-2.6 MAI-Image-2.6 32K preview
MAI-Image-2.6-Flash MAI-Image-2.6-Flash 32K preview
MAI-Image-2.5-Pro MAI-Image-2.5-Pro 32K $5.00 $106.00 $30.25 preview
MAI-Image-2.5 MAI-Image-2.5 32K $5.00 $47.00 $15.50 preview
MAI-Image-2.5-Flash MAI-Image-2.5-Flash 32K $1.75 $19.50 $6.19 preview
MAI-Voice-2 MAI-Voice-2 preview
MAI-Voice-2-Flash MAI-Voice-2-Flash preview
MAI-Voice-1 MAI-Voice-1 deprecated
MAI-Transcribe-2 MAI-Transcribe-2 preview
MAI-Transcribe-1.5 MAI-Transcribe-1.5 preview

D Verify before you commit

Model pricing changes without notice and this page is a snapshot. Confirm against the vendor's own page before you build a budget on it.

Source: huggingface.co · checked 2026-09-06 · Microsoft pricing · API docs