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Phi tiny MoE instruct

Official publisher releaseOpen weights7d #337 → #330

Microsoft·#330 of 352 on the current board

Phi tiny MoE instruct is a language model from Microsoft. It ranks #330 of 352 on ModelCap's current board, with an Index score of 11.5, modeled from the publisher's launch results against measured models. Its score range of 0.0–24.1 spans positions #264–#352. Its weights are openly downloadable.

Figures as of 6 Nov 2026, 14:10 UTC · download the public dataset · methodology

ModelCap Index · Current board
11.5#330
Modeled from the publisher's launch results against measured models · range 0.0–24.1
Market Gravity
12.9
Secondary market signal

OpenRouter endpoint status could not be refreshed. This model is not treated as currently served until a successful observation arrives.

Input
Self-hosted
weights only · no listed API price
Output
Self-hosted
weights only · no listed API price
Context
—
tokens
Providers
0
endpoints

Providers

Uptime measured over the last 30 minutes

Current provider status is unavailable.

ModelCap Index · Current board

Methodology
11.5
Modeled from the publisher's launch results against measured models
Current board
#330 of 352
Score range
0.0–24.1
Rank range
#264–#352
Technical details
Public rank basis
Modeled · peer benchmarks (architecture)
Evidence label
Modeled · peer benchmarks · publisher-corpus-prior over 210 held-out anchors (17%); launch card against 4 resolved peers on 3 rows (83%); optimism haircut 3.27 from cross-lab-probe; shrunk 0.5 toward the measured corpus
Index support
17.6% · limited
Identity binding
Exact catalogue product · microsoft/microsoft/Phi-tiny-MoE-instruct · aggregates disclosed benchmark configurations · endpoint configuration not claimed · artifact metadata microsoft/Phi-tiny-MoE-instruct@2fe50e88d0e2a5a132563815686ea0dcc8e252b5 (not the evaluation revision)
Index observations used
0
Qualified Index evidence point
11.5
How this position was produced · fused launch placement

No general-family board lists this model yet. Its point estimate is the precision-weighted mean of every channel that spoke for it; each channel’s share is the weight it carried. Independent measurements replace this placement as boards list the model.

Fused estimate
11.5 ± 9.9
Independent share
0%
Shrink toward corpus
-0.5
Peer ceiling share
0%
Optimism haircut
−3.3 points · cross lab probe, 4 probes
Method
precision-weighted-v1
Channels fused into this model’s launch placement
ChannelEstimateShare
Publisher corpus prior · not independent
publisher-corpus-prior over 210 held-out anchors
9.0 ± 23.817%
Launch card against resolved peers · not independent
launch card against 4 resolved peers on 3 rows
12.0 ± 10.883%
  • · Launch card row human-eval: inside the resolved peer range
  • · Launch card row mmlu-pro: inside the resolved peer range
  • · Launch card row mmlu: inside the resolved peer range
Bayesian Evidence Score · measured evidence input only

BES normalizes admitted public benchmark evidence for measured Index rows. Its legacy score and observables prior do not define the public language rank.

Observed capability
—
Evidence status
No admitted measured evidence
General preference
—
Coding
—
Agents & tools
—
Reasoning
—
Evidence breadth
0%
Evidence coverage
0%
Market and catalogue signals · secondary, never the language Index rank
Usage (OpenRouter popularity)
—
Liquidity (providers × uptime)
—
Open reach (HF downloads)
81.2
Surface (context / tools / modalities)
0.0
Freshness
14.8
  • · HF 30d downloads 26790
  • · Catalogue surface
  • · First seen 2025-06-23

These adoption and deployment observations remain context only. They do not change this model's ModelCap Index score or rank.

The bounded 0–100 capability score blends each source’s competitive placement with its published achievement, then combines capability families. Evidence breadth adds a modest uncertainty adjustment; price and popularity are not part of benchmark-led rank.

Experimental capability estimate

Estimate policy
11.2
0.0–26.5 uncertainty interval
Excluded from rank
Confidence
76%
Training support
221 models · 129 lineages
Out-of-domain check
in domain
Feature coverage
71%
Lineage-held-out error
8.3 MAE

Experimental estimate. This layer predicts from admitted evidence and safe metadata only. It never enters ModelCap Score or rank.

Deployment readiness

Metadata index
47.9
partial · 52% metadata coverage
Not capability
Artifact reproducibility
85.0
Access & legal clarity
100.0
Deployability
8.0
Evaluation provenance
0.0

Not yet published: the base model it derives from, a current serving provider, measured provider uptime, published provider pricing, declared context and output limits, admitted benchmark results, results across several capability areas, results from more than one source, a confident match to its benchmark entries, pinned evaluation dataset versions.

A metadata completeness and deployability index—not a safety certification, quality grade, or production-readiness claim.

Market activity

Venue coverage
Market Gravity
12.9
OpenRouter weekly popularity
Not listed

Market Gravity uses OpenRouter’s full-catalogue popularity order. Sparse Vercel top-ten observations appear only when published and do not affect the score.

Arena preference

No matched Arena rating

This model is visible because it is available in the live catalogue, but it has no trustworthy community result yet. ModelCap does not infer a quality score from price, features, or market activity.

Market Gravity breakdown

Usage55%
0.0

OpenRouter weekly popularity across the full model catalogue.

Liquidity25%
0.0

Independent providers versus the model's open or closed cohort, weighted by uptime.

Open reach15%
81.2

Hugging Face 30-day downloads for open models; neutral for closed models.

Freshness5%
14.8

Time since first public availability, on a six-month half-life.

Specification

Model ID
microsoft/Phi-tiny-MoE-instruct
Declared output cap
Unknown

OpenRouter catalogue or provider-endpoint declaration. Limits can vary by provider and prompt length; a model-wide maximum has not been independently verified. OpenRouter metadata

Inputs
Text
Outputs
Text
Cached input tokens
Not offered
First seen on OpenRouter
23 Jun 2025

Capabilities

  • Not supported: Reasoning
  • Not supported: Tool use
  • Not supported: Structured output
  • Not supported: Response format
  • Not supported: Moderated

Weights & access

Open weights. Downloadable weights are published under an OSI or free-culture license in the current repository metadata. This describes weight availability, not whether the full training stack qualifies as Open Source AI.

Access
Open weights
Licence
mit
Pinned revision
2fe50e88d0e2
Parameters
3.8B
Architecture
PhiMoEForCausalLM
Model type
phimoe
Hugging Face downloads (30d)
27K
Downloads (all time)
5.3M
Likes
52
Repository updated
10 Dec 2025, 18:21 UTC

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Ranked neighbours

Models within 3 places of #330 on the ModelCap Index.

Other ranked Microsoft models

The same publisher's other current models with a public Index position.

Phi tiny MoE instruct: common questions

How does Phi tiny MoE instruct rank among AI models?

Phi tiny MoE instruct holds ModelCap Index position #330 of 352 ranked language models as of 6 November 2026, with an Index score of 11.5 (interval 0.0–24.1); evidence: modeled · peer benchmarks. The Index combines public benchmark boards with published uncertainty; the methodology page explains the weighting.

How much does Phi tiny MoE instruct cost per 1M tokens?

No live API price is listed for Phi tiny MoE instruct in the current snapshot as of 6 November 2026 because the latest endpoint refresh was unavailable. ModelCap shows a price only when a provider currently lists one.

Is Phi tiny MoE instruct open-weight?

Open weights (mit). Downloadable weights are published under an OSI or free-culture license in the current repository metadata. This describes weight availability, not whether the full training stack qualifies as Open Source AI. The repository is microsoft/Phi-tiny-MoE-instruct on Hugging Face.

Which benchmarks has Phi tiny MoE instruct been evaluated on?

Phi tiny MoE instruct's Index position rests on the evidence listed on this page; it has no result on the public boards ModelCap tracks as separate leaderboards as of 6 November 2026. The evidence panel names each source and its publication date.

When was Phi tiny MoE instruct released?

Phi tiny MoE instruct first appeared in the catalogue on 23 Jun 2025. It is the current version in its family. Rank and price movements since then are recorded on the site's changes feed.