Phi-4 (reasoning-vision 15B)
mit-licensed reasoning small enough for a laptop, with a context window that belongs to 2024.
clean mit across the whole family and genuinely runnable anywhere — held back by a 16k context that rules out most 2026 workloads.
microsoft has kept every phi-4 variant under plain mit, from the 3.8b mini through the 14b reasoning models to this 15b reasoning-vision release from march. no field-of-use terms, no attribution beyond the copyright line. consistency across a seven-model family is rarer than it should be.
the appeal is deployment reach: the 15b fits a single 24gb consumer card in bf16 or int8, and the mini variants run on cpu or entry-level edge hardware through ollama or foundry local. the reasoning was distilled from o3-mini traces and now extends to vision-grounded tasks.
the description above is ours, condensed from the ranking. pricing moves — check it on the vendor's own page before you rely on it.
- category
- open-weight llms
- pricing
- free (mit)
- website
- huggingface.co
clean mit across the whole family and genuinely runnable anywhere — held back by a 16k context that rules out most 2026 workloads.
we researched this category against vendors' own pricing pages and licence files. that is where this line comes from — not from the vendor, and not from anything they paid for.