Phi 4 Mini Instruct API Pricing

Phi 4 Mini Instruct pricing by provider

1 listing across 1 provider. Token prices are in US dollars per 1M tokens. The highlighted row is the price quoted above.

What Phi 4 Mini Instruct costs in practice

1,000 requests with 2,000 input and 500 output tokens each

100 long-document requests with 100,000 input and 2,000 output tokens each

Phi 4 Mini Instruct features

• Function calling

Use Phi 4 Mini Instruct with LiteLLM

Call Phi 4 Mini Instruct through the LiteLLM Python SDK, or put it behind the LiteLLM proxy and send OpenAI-format requests to /v1/chat/completions. LiteLLM tracks the cost of every request at these prices.

from litellm import completion

response = completion(
    model="azure_ai/Phi-4-mini-instruct",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}],
)

model_list:
  - model_name: phi-4-mini-instruct
    litellm_params:
      model: azure_ai/Phi-4-mini-instruct
      # credentials: see the provider's LiteLLM docs page

curl http://0.0.0.0:4000/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer sk-1234" \
  -d '{
    "model": "phi-4-mini-instruct",
    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}]
  }'

Phi 4 Mini Instruct FAQ

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