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Phi-3-small-128k-instruct
Legacy 7B long-context model; superseded on every axis by Phi-4-mini-instruct at half the price.
Open weights · Permissive (Apache, MIT, OpenMDW) · Data checked September 6, 2026 · Not a hands-on evaluation
Model ID Phi-3-small-128k-instruct
- Parameters
- 7B
- Architecture
- Not recorded
- Context window
- 131,072 tokensMaximum input
- Max output
- 4,096 tokensPer response
- Input price
- $0.15 per 1M tokens
- Output price
- $0.60 per 1M tokens
- Cached input
- Not published
- Blended price
- $0.2625 per 1M tokens3:1 input to output
- Knowledge cutoff
- 2023-10
- Released
- 2024-05-07
- Status
- deprecated
- Size band
- 4B to 15B
License and openness
Phi-3-small-128k-instruct is released under the MIT. This is a permissive license. It generally allows use, modification and redistribution, including commercial use, subject to attribution and notice requirements. License terms can change between versions; confirm the text published with the weights you download.
Capabilities
| Input modalities | text |
|---|---|
| Output modalities | text |
What it is for
At a three-to-one input-to-output ratio, Phi-3-small-128k-instruct costs $0.26 per million tokens blended. A workload of one million input and 330,000 output tokens per day would run about $10.44 per month at list price, before caching or batch discounts.
Cost at list price
| Input | $0.15 per 1M tokens |
|---|---|
| Output | $0.60 per 1M tokens |
| Cached input | Not published |
| Blended, 3:1 | $0.2625 per 1M tokens |
Sources
- Source: prices.azure.com ↗
- Microsoft pricing ↗
- API docs ↗
- Full reference record for Phi-3-small-128k-instruct ↗
- Microsoft in the reference ↗
Sources checked September 6, 2026. Specifications and prices change without notice; confirm against the provider before you commit.
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