Microsoft: Phi 4 Multimodal Instruct

Microsoft's Phi-4 Multimodal Instruct, a 5.6B parameter model, demonstrates competitive response times, ranking in the 48th percentile for speed across benchmarks. Its pricing is a significant strength, consistently offering among the most competitive rates, placing it in the 90th percentile. The model also exhibits strong reliability, with few technical issues, achieving the 82nd percentile. While excelling in cost-efficiency and reliability, its accuracy across various benchmarks is generally lower. It struggles in Coding (22nd percentile), Instruction Following (29th percentile), Reasoning (22nd percentile), and General Knowledge (18th percentile). Although its Email Classification accuracy is 92.0%, its percentile rank (23rd) suggests other models perform better. A notable weakness is its exceptionally long duration for the Ethics benchmark (4th percentile). Overall, Phi-4 Multimodal Instruct is a cost-effective and reliable option, particularly suited for edge and mobile deployments, but its current performance in complex reasoning and knowledge-based tasks indicates room for improvement in accuracy.