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Phi-3 Medium

Microsoft's small but powerful 14B LLM.

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Best for

Best for engineers wanting a tiny model that punches above its weight class.

At a glance

Pricing
open-source
Setup time
30 minutes
Learning curve
easy
Last verified
5/25/2026

What we love

  • ✓Best quality-per-parameter on the market
  • ✓Runs on consumer GPUs
  • ✓Permissive license

Where it falls short

  • −Smaller raw capacity than 70B+ models
  • −Limited multilingual
  • −Best for short-context use

Pricing

2 tiers

Open-source

$0

perpetual

  • ✓MIT license

Azure AI

Usage

per token

  • ✓Hosted

Overview

Phi-3 Medium is Microsoft's open-weights 14B-parameter LLM tuned to punch far above its weight class. Designed for on-device + edge deployment with surprising reasoning quality.

Key features

  • ●14B params, 128K context
  • ●Optimized for edge/on-device
  • ●MIT license
  • ●Azure-hosted option
  • ●Strong reasoning per param

Best use cases

On-device assistant

Run Phi-3 on a laptop or phone for offline AI assistance.

Cost-controlled inference

Replace 70B model calls with Phi-3 for tasks where its quality is enough.

Integrations

Azure AI
Hugging Face
Ollama
LMStudio

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