BenchLeader

Phi-4

Best configuration ranks #523 of 610 on the BenchLeader Index at 39.7 ±4.2. Last measured 2 Sept 2026. Released 11 Dec 2024.

Blended price
$0.219/M
$0.125 in · $0.500 out
Output speed
41 tok/s
First answer
2.54 s
first token 0.20 s
Context
16k
How it scores by categoryDashed line = average model (50). One step of 15 = one standard deviation.
  1. Overall index40
  2. Reasoning42
  3. Coding42
  4. Agents & tools40
  5. Maths42
  6. Knowledge38
  7. Instruction following28
  8. Human preference41
  9. Long context25
  10. Composite36

Reasoning-effort configurations

The same model behaves differently depending on how much it is allowed to think. Each row is one setting, scored only on the benchmarks that were run at that setting. “Default” means the publisher did not say which setting was used.

EffortIndexRankSpeedFirst answerChat reply costCategories
thinking41 tok/s2.54 s$0.0002
defaultbest39.7#52341 tok/s2.54 s$0.0002Agents & tools 40 · Coding 42 · Composite 36 · Human preference 41 · Instruction following 28 · Knowledge 38 · Long context 25 · Maths 42 · Reasoning 42

Benchmark results

One column per reasoning effort. Rank is among every configuration of every model on that benchmark. Hover a score for the run it came from.

Coding

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LMArena Coding1306#250LMArena

Knowledge

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AA-Omniscience-55.7#365Artificial Analysis

Instruction following

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IFBench23.5%#378Artificial Analysis

Human preference

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LMArena Text1256#264LMArena

Long context

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AA-LCR0.0%#419Artificial Analysis

Where to run it

Every provider serving this model through OpenRouter, with throughput and first-token latency measured on live traffic over the last 30 minutes and each provider’s own price. Purple marks the best in each column.

ProviderSpeedFirst tokenInput $/MOutput $/MContextQuantisation
DeepInfra48 tok/s0.20 s$0.070$0.14016kbf16

What a task costs

Estimates from list price, output speed and time to first answer for the best configuration. “With caching” assumes three-quarters of the input is served from the prompt cache. Reasoning tokens are not modelled.

WorkloadTokens in / outCostWith cachingTime
Chat reply400 / 300$0.00029.8 s
Summarise a 30-page report12,000 / 600$0.001817.1 s
Code edit6,000 / 1,500$0.001539.0 s
Agentic coding session60,000 / 4,000$0.00951.7 min
Structured extraction2,000 / 200$0.00047.4 s

See also

Data as of 9 Sept 2026. Compare these configurations.