Phi · 3.8B · In LM Mini
Phi-4 Mini Instruct on a phone
Strong reasoning in a phone-friendly package — great for explanations and code-ish help.
- Parameters
- 3.8B
- Typical Q4
- ~2.3–2.4 GB
- RAM to budget
- ~3.6 GB
- Engines
- GGUF · MLX
Get it running
microsoft/Phi-4-mini-instruct (~3.8B). GGUF + MLX. Hugging Face: microsoft/Phi-4-mini-instruct.
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Phones that can run it
- iPhone 17 Pro Max Runs well
- iPhone 17 Pro Runs well
- iPhone Air Runs well
- iPhone 17 Fits
- Pixel 10 Pro XL Runs well
- Pixel 10 Pro Runs well
- Pixel 10 Runs well
- Galaxy S26 Ultra Runs well
- iPhone 16 Pro Max Fits
- iPhone 16 Pro Fits
- Pixel 9 Pro XL Runs well
- Pixel 9 Pro Runs well
- Pixel 9 Runs well
- Pixel 9a Fits
- Pixel 8 Pro Runs well
- Pixel 8 Fits
- Galaxy S25 Ultra Runs well
- Galaxy S25 Runs well
Tight (close other apps)
- iPhone 16 Plus Tight
- iPhone 16 Tight
- iPhone 16e Tight
- iPhone 15 Pro Max Tight
- iPhone 15 Pro Tight