Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Both models show comparable benchmark performance. Phi-4-multimodal-instruct offers 111.6K more tokens in context window than GPT-4o mini. Phi-4-multimodal-instruct is $0.60 cheaper per million tokens. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
OpenAI
GPT-4o Mini was created as a smaller, more efficient variant of GPT-4o, designed to bring multimodal capabilities to applications requiring faster response times and lower costs. Built to democratize access to advanced vision and text understanding, it enables developers to build sophisticated applications with reduced resource requirements.
Microsoft
Phi-4 Multimodal was created to handle multiple input modalities including text, images, and potentially other formats. Built to extend Phi-4's efficiency into multimodal applications, it demonstrates that compact models can successfully integrate diverse information types.
6 months newer

GPT-4o mini
OpenAI
2024-07-18

Phi-4-multimodal-instruct
Microsoft
2025-02-01
Cost per million tokens (USD)

GPT-4o mini

Phi-4-multimodal-instruct
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 2 common benchmarks

GPT-4o mini

Phi-4-multimodal-instruct
GPT-4o mini
2023-10-01
Phi-4-multimodal-instruct
2024-06-01
Available providers and their performance metrics

GPT-4o mini
Azure

Phi-4-multimodal-instruct

GPT-4o mini

Phi-4-multimodal-instruct

GPT-4o mini

Phi-4-multimodal-instruct
DeepInfra