Phi-mini-MoE-instruct
SlimMoE compression of Phi-3.5-MoE down to 7.6B total / 2.4B active — near-Phi-3.5-MoE quality at a third of the memory, but a hard 4K context kills it for RAG.
Data checked 2026-09-06
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microsoft/Phi-mini-MoE-instruct
- Context window
- 4.1K tokens in
- Max output
- —
- Input
- — per 1M tokens
- Output
- — per 1M tokens
- Knowledge cutoff
- 2023-10
- Released
- 2025-06-23
- Parameters
- 7.6B-A2.4B MoE
- Licence
- MIT
A What it is for
Weights only, no hosted endpoint.
B Capabilities
Not documented.
| Input modalities | text |
|---|---|
| Output modalities | text |
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