Phi 4 pricing.
prices as of · 9 providers · 11 prices
Microsoft's Phi 4 holds 16k tokens of context. Open weights, so anyone may host it, which is why the prices below differ so much.
Phi 4 costs $0.07 in and $0.14 out per million tokens from OpenRouter, and no provider goes below it with a reason we can point at.
OpenRouter list price
$0.35/M tokens
$0.07 in · $0.14 out
read · 90% below the market median
Cheapest price we can explain
no price
Nobody goes below OpenRouter's price for a reason we can point at, so the list price is the one to beat. Every other price is below.
What it costs for your work
OpenRouter list price
$0.0504a month
cheapest we can explain
none
difference
no list price
A page is about 600 tokens in and 60 out, a support reply 200 in and 300 out, an email 150 in and 250 out. Nothing else is counted: no cache discount, no batch rate, no free tier.
Run it yourself
every plan that fits Phi 4 →Microsoft publishes the weights, so you can run Phi 4 on a server you rent by the month. It needs about 12.2 GB of RAM on a CPU, and the cheapest plan we track with that much and a disk included is HOSTKEY vm.v2-medium at $16.15/mo, streaming an estimated 2.2–4.3 tok/s.
Every provider selling Phi 4
Four groups, decided by the price and by what the provider publishes about it. Prices are per million tokens, and the share is that row against OpenRouter's price. Microsoft trained Phi 4 and sells it on no catalog we read, so the price every row is measured against is OpenRouter's.
Same price as the maker
10 pricesThe same price the maker charges, sold by someone else.
$0.07 / $0.14in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$0.07 / $0.14in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$0.07 / $0.14in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$0.07 / $0.14in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$0.07 / $0.14in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$0.07 / $0.14in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$0.07 / $0.14in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$0.07 / $0.15in / out per M
1.06×of list price
$0.13 / $0.50in / out per M
2.50×of list price
$0.13 / $0.50in / out per M
2.50×of list price
Cheaper, and nobody says why
1 price · never rankedBelow list on a closed model with nothing to account for it. Shown, never ranked, never a pick.
FeatherlessWe could not read this provider's prices reliably, so the row is listed but never ranked.
33k context hereFeatherless ↗$0.07 / $0.14in / out per M
1.00×of list price
Frequently asked
- Who sells Phi 4 cheapest?
- No provider sells Phi 4 below OpenRouter's price with a reason we can point at. 9 providers sell it at or above list, and those prices are all on this page.
- Is Phi 4 open weights?
- Yes. Microsoft publishes the weights, so anyone may host Phi 4, which is why 9 providers sell it and why their prices differ so much.
- How much context does Phi 4 hold?
- 16,384 tokens in one call, which is about 16k.
- How does Phi 4 compare with the rest of the market?
- At $0.35 per million tokens, OpenRouter's price is 90% below the $3.55 median across the 337 text models we track.