Phi-3.5 Mini Instruct
3.8BMicrosoft Phi
Microsoft's tiny powerhouse. Best 4B model for on-device deployment.
Consumer GPUMac / Apple SiliconCPU / VPS
131K
Max Context
3
Quant Variants
GGUF Q8_0
Best Quality
99.8%
Accuracy Retained
Quantization Variants
Per-quant VRAM, quality loss, and inference speed on RTX 4090
Measured = site benchmarks · Estimated = formula · Community = public reports
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