Microsoft
Microsoft ranks #57 of 91 providers on BenchLeader by its best model, with 4 ranked models. Its best model is Phi-4 at 38.9 on the BenchLeader Index, strongest in maths. Prices run from $0.135 to $0.223 per million tokens blended; Phi-4-Mini is the cheapest ranked option. The fastest is Phi-4-Mini at 46 tokens per second. 9 of its 21 models ship open weights. It has shipped 5 dated releases, roughly one every 62 days; the last was 30 Apr 2025, so the next would be due between 6 Jun 2025 and 25 Jul 2025 on that pattern.
Publishes the small open Phi models and MAI in-house models alongside its OpenAI partnership and Azure AI Foundry distribution.
- Provider rank
- #57
- by best model
- Best index
- 38.9
- Phi-4
- Ranked models
- 4
- 9 open weights
- Cheapest ranked
- $0.135/M
- Phi-4-Mini
Release timeline
Each model’s best configuration by release date. The top eight are labelled; hover any point for its name.
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Next release
Over the last two years Microsoft shipped 5 distinct models, one every 62 days on median. The latest arrived on 30 Apr 2025.
If the cadence holds, the next one lands between 6 Jun 2025 and 25 Jul 2025.
An estimate from past release dates only. It knows nothing about roadmaps or announcements.
Fastest ranked model: Phi-4-Mini at 46 tok/s.
Models
Every Microsoft model with a result, one row per model; switch to all configurations to see each reasoning effort.
| # | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Phi-4open ↗ | 38.9±4 | $0.223 | 38 | 2.67 s | 16k | 2024-12-12 | 2026-10-22 |
| 2 | Phi 3medium | 38.0±4 | – | – | – | – | 2024-04-23 | 2026-10-22 |
| 3 | Phi 3 Miniopen | 36.8±3 | – | – | – | 4k | 2024-04-23 | 2026-10-22 |
| 4 | Phi-4-Miniopen ↗ | 35.8±8 | $0.135 | 46 | 0.82 s | 128k | 2025-02-27 | 2025-02-27 · stale |
| 5 | Phi 3 Small | – | – | – | – | – | 2024-04-23 | 2026-10-22 |
| 6 | Wizardlm 13B | – | – | – | – | – | – | 2026-10-22 |
| 7 | Wizardlm 70B | – | – | – | – | – | – | 2026-10-22 |
| 8 | Phi 3.5 Vision | – | – | – | – | – | 2024-08-16 | 2026-10-19 |
| 9 | Phi 4 Multimodalopen ↗ | – | $0.140 | – | – | 128k | 2025-02-26 | 2025-02-26 · stale |
| 10 | WizardLM-2 8x22Bopen ↗ | – | $0.620 | – | – | 66k | 2024-04-15 | 2024-04-15 · stale |
| 11 | Phi 3 Vision | – | – | – | – | – | – | 2026-10-19 |
| 12 | Phi 4 Plusthinkingopen | – | $0.219 | – | – | 32k | 2024-12-11 | – |
| 13 | Phi-1.5 | – | – | – | – | – | 2023-09-11 | – |
| 14 | Phi-2 | – | – | – | – | – | 2023-12-12 | – |
| 15 | Phi-3 Medium 14Bopen | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 16 | phi-3-mini 3.8B | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 17 | phi-3-small 7.4B | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 18 | Phi-3.5-mini | – | – | – | – | – | 2024-08-16 | – |
| 19 | Phi-3.5-MoE | – | – | – | – | – | 2024-08-17 | – |
| 20 | Phi-4-mini-reasoningthinkingopen ↗ | – | $0.131 | – | – | 128k | 2025-04-30 | – |
| 21 | Phi-4-reasoningthinkingopen ↗ | – | $0.219 | – | – | 32k | 2025-04-30 | – |
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