Microsoft

Phi-4-multimodal-instruct

Multimodal
Zero-eval
#1ScienceQA Visual
#1BLINK
#1InterGPS
+2 more

by Microsoft

About

Phi-4-multimodal-instruct is a multimodal language model developed by Microsoft. It achieves strong performance with an average score of 72.0% across 15 benchmarks. It excels particularly in ScienceQA Visual (97.5%), DocVQA (93.2%), MMBench (86.7%). The model shows particular specialization in general tasks with an average performance of 75.8%. It supports a 256K token context window for handling large documents. The model is available through 1 API provider. As a multimodal model, it can process and understand text, images, and other input formats seamlessly. It's licensed for commercial use, making it suitable for enterprise applications. Released in 2025, it represents Microsoft's latest advancement in AI technology.

Pricing Range
Input (per 1M)$0.05 -$0.05
Output (per 1M)$0.10 -$0.10
Providers1
Timeline
AnnouncedFeb 1, 2025
ReleasedFeb 1, 2025
Knowledge CutoffJun 1, 2024
Specifications
Training Tokens5.0T
Capabilities
Multimodal
License & Family
License
MIT
Benchmark Performance Overview
Performance metrics and category breakdown

Overall Performance

15 benchmarks
Average Score
72.0%
Best Score
97.5%
High Performers (80%+)
7

Performance Metrics

Max Context Window
256.0K
Avg Throughput
25.0 tok/s
Avg Latency
1ms

Top Categories

general
75.8%
vision
69.7%
math
62.4%
Benchmark Performance
Top benchmark scores with normalized values (0-100%)
Ranking Across Benchmarks
Position relative to other models on each benchmark

ScienceQA Visual

Rank #1 of 1
#1Phi-4-multimodal-instruct
97.5%

DocVQA

Rank #14 of 26
#11Grok-2 mini
93.2%
#12Pixtral Large
93.3%
#13DeepSeek VL2
93.3%
#14Phi-4-multimodal-instruct
93.2%
#15GPT-4o
92.8%
#16Nova Lite
92.4%
#17DeepSeek VL2 Small
92.3%

MMBench

Rank #2 of 7
#1Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct
88.0%
#2Phi-4-multimodal-instruct
86.7%
#3Qwen2.5 VL 7B Instruct
84.3%
#4Phi-3.5-vision-instruct
81.9%
#5DeepSeek VL2 Small
80.3%

POPE

Rank #2 of 2
#1Phi-3.5-vision-instruct
86.1%
#2Phi-4-multimodal-instruct
85.6%

OCRBench

Rank #4 of 7
#1Qwen2.5 VL 7B Instruct
86.4%
#2Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct
87.7%
#3Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct
88.5%
#4Phi-4-multimodal-instruct
84.4%
#5DeepSeek VL2 Small
83.4%
#6DeepSeek VL2
81.1%
#7DeepSeek VL2 Tiny
80.9%
All Benchmark Results for Phi-4-multimodal-instruct
Complete list of benchmark scores with detailed information
ScienceQA Visual
ScienceQA Visual benchmark
vision
multimodal
0.97
97.5%
Self-reported
DocVQA
DocVQA benchmark
vision
multimodal
0.93
93.2%
Self-reported
MMBench
MMBench benchmark
general
text
0.87
86.7%
Self-reported
POPE
POPE benchmark
general
text
0.86
85.6%
Self-reported
OCRBench
OCRBench benchmark
general
text
0.84
84.4%
Self-reported
AI2D
AI2D benchmark
general
text
0.82
82.3%
Self-reported
ChartQA
ChartQA benchmark
general
multimodal
0.81
81.4%
Self-reported
TextVQA
TextVQA benchmark
vision
multimodal
0.76
75.6%
Self-reported
InfoVQA
InfoVQA benchmark
vision
multimodal
0.73
72.7%
Self-reported
MathVista
MathVista benchmark
math
text
0.62
62.4%
Self-reported
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