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Phi 3.5 mini
8B-parameter model that supports up to 128K context tokens, with improved multilingual capabilities across over 20 languages.
Updated Aug 12, 2026. Default version: Phi-3.5-mini-instruct
LLMBoard score0.0Phi-3.5-mini-instruct
Coverage100%21 benchmark families
Context window128KTokens
Official input priceN/AOfficial price unavailable
Phi 3.5 mini Specifications
Technical details for the model's default version.
- Version
- Phi-3.5-mini-instruct
- Released
- Aug 23, 2024
- Knowledge cutoff
- Unknown
- Parameters
- 3.8B
- Context window
- 128K
- Max output
- 128K
- Inputs
- text
- Outputs
- text
- Open weights
- No
- License
- MIT
Phi 3.5 mini Capability Profile
This profile uses the model's current scored version. Arena ratings and prices are shown separately.
Phi 3.5 mini Benchmark Results
Benchmark scores for Phi-3.5-mini-instruct.
| Qasper | 0.4 | 1 | 2 | 100.0% | C | |
| QMSum | 0.2 | 1 | 2 | 100.0% | C | |
| SQuALITY | 0.2 | 1 | 5 | 100.0% | C | |
| GovReport | 0.3 | 2 | 2 | 0.0% | C | |
| MEGA MLQA | 0.6 | 2 | 2 | 0.0% | C | |
| MEGA TyDi QA | 0.6 | 2 | 2 | 0.0% | C | |
| MEGA UDPOS | 0.5 | 2 | 2 | 0.0% | C | |
| MEGA XCOPA | 0.6 | 2 | 2 | 0.0% | C | |
| MEGA XStoryCloze | 0.7 | 2 | 2 | 0.0% | C | |
| OpenBookQA | 0.8 | 2 | 5 | 75.0% | C | |
| RepoQA | 0.8 | 2 | 2 | 0.0% | C | |
| Social IQa | 0.7 | 2 | 9 | 87.5% | C | |
| SummScreenFD | 0.2 | 2 | 2 | 0.0% | C | |
| RULER | 0.8 | 4 | 4 | 0.0% | C | |
| TruthfulQA | 0.6 | 5 | 18 | 76.5% | C | |
| PIQA | 0.8 | 7 | 11 | 40.0% | C | |
| BoolQ | 0.8 | 8 | 10 | 22.2% | C | |
| ARC-C | 0.8 | 14 | 34 | 60.6% | C | |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 0.7 | 15 | 21 | 30.0% | C | |
| Winogrande | 0.7 | 18 | 22 | 19.1% | C | |
| Arena Hard | 0.4 | 23 | 26 | 12.0% | C | |
| MBPP | 0.7 | 23 | 33 | 31.3% | C | |
| HellaSwag | 0.7 | 25 | 27 | 7.7% | C | |
| MGSM | 0.5 | 31 | 31 | 0.0% | C | |
| GSM8k | 0.9 | 35 | 48 | 27.7% | C | |
| MMMLU | 0.6 | 48 | 49 | 2.1% | C | |
| MATH | 0.5 | 57 | 71 | 20.0% | C | |
| HumanEval | 0.6 | 62 | 66 | 6.2% | C | |
| MMLU | 0.7 | 87 | 100 | 13.1% | C | |
| MMLU-Pro | 0.5 | 117 | 129 | 9.4% | C | |
| GPQA | 0.3 | 225 | 234 | 3.9% | C |
Phi 3.5 mini Arena Results
Preference and agent-evaluation results for the default version.
No Arena results
The default version does not have a matching Arena result yet.
Phi 3.5 mini Pricing
Official vendor API pricing appears first, followed by individual provider offers.
- Official API
- N/A
- Official provider
- N/A
- Lowest third-party
- N/A
- Tracked offerings
- 0
No provider prices
The default version has no current input or output token prices.
Official prices use only the vendor's configured official Provider and positive standard USD PAYG rates. Third-party offers remain explicitly labeled.
Phi 3.5 mini Versions
Available versions of this model. The score column identifies the version used in the overall ranking.
| Phi-3.5-mini-instruct | 0.0 | 3.8B | 128K | 128K | No | MIT |
What is Phi 3.5 mini?
Key information about Phi 3.5 mini and its available data.
8B-parameter model that supports up to 128K context tokens, with improved multilingual capabilities across over 20 languages. It underwent additional training and safety post-training to enhance instruction-following, reasoning, math, and code generation.
Ideal for environments with memory or latency constraints, it uses an MIT license.
Data as of 2026-08-11.
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FAQ
Common questions about Phi 3.5 mini.
When was Phi 3.5 mini released?
Phi 3.5 mini's default version was released on Aug 23, 2024.
How much does Phi 3.5 mini cost?
No official standard PAYG price is currently available for Phi 3.5 mini.
Who created Phi 3.5 mini?
Phi 3.5 mini was created by Microsoft.
What is the context window for Phi 3.5 mini?
The default version has a 128K token context window.
Is Phi 3.5 mini open weight?
No. The default version is not marked as having publicly available weights.
How many API providers offer Phi 3.5 mini?
No provider offering is currently linked to the default version.
What models should I compare Phi 3.5 mini with?
Nearby ranked alternatives include Llama 3.2 11B, Jamba 1.5 Mini, GPT-3.5-Turbo.