Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Grok 4 Fast offers 1.8M more tokens in context window than Phi-4-multimodal-instruct. Phi-4-multimodal-instruct is $0.55 cheaper per million tokens. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
xAI
Grok 4 Fast is a multimodal language model developed by xAI. It achieves strong performance with an average score of 73.0% across 7 benchmarks. It excels particularly in SimpleQA (95.0%), HMMT 2025 (93.3%), AIME 2025 (92.0%). With a 2.0M token context window, it can handle extensive documents and complex multi-turn conversations. The model is available through 1 API provider. As a multimodal model, it can process and understand text, images, and other input formats seamlessly. Released in 2025, it represents xAI's latest advancement in AI technology.
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

Phi-4-multimodal-instruct
Microsoft
2025-02-01

Grok 4 Fast
xAI
2025-08-28
Cost per million tokens (USD)

Grok 4 Fast

Phi-4-multimodal-instruct
Context window and performance specifications
Phi-4-multimodal-instruct
2024-06-01
Available providers and their performance metrics

Grok 4 Fast
xAI

Phi-4-multimodal-instruct

Grok 4 Fast

Phi-4-multimodal-instruct

Grok 4 Fast

Phi-4-multimodal-instruct
DeepInfra