Title: Phi 3.5 Mini Instruct vs Phi 4 Mini Instruct: Parameters %E2%80%94 LLM EU
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# Phi 3.5 Mini Instruct vs Phi 4 Mini Instruct

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## When to use it

### [Phi 3.5 Mini Instruct](/en/models/phi-3-5-mini-instruct/)

#### Strengths

- open weights are published on Hugging Face and can be downloaded without a vendor agreement
- mit licence, so commercial self-hosting is permitted without a separate agreement
- at 3.8B parameters it fits on a single accelerator
- instruction-tuned checkpoint with a chat template in the repository

#### Limits

- catalogue only %E2%80%94 LLM EU does not run this model, and nothing on this card implies an LLM EU endpoint
- no evaluation has been run by LLM EU
- the published configuration records no context window, so the card carries none
- at 3.8B parameters, the weights fit on a single modest accelerator

#### Tasks

[Reasoning](/en/tasks/reasoning/), [Summarisation](/en/tasks/summarization/), [Multilingual support](/en/tasks/multilingual-support/)

### [Phi 4 Mini Instruct](/en/models/phi-4-mini-instruct/)

#### Strengths

- open weights are published on Hugging Face and can be downloaded without a vendor agreement
- mit licence, so commercial self-hosting is permitted without a separate agreement
- at 3.8B parameters it fits on a single accelerator
- the model page lists 13 languages the European Union publishes in, including cs, da, nl, en
- instruction-tuned checkpoint with a chat template in the repository

#### Limits

- catalogue only %E2%80%94 LLM EU does not run this model, and nothing on this card implies an LLM EU endpoint
- no evaluation has been run by LLM EU
- the published configuration records no context window, so the card carries none
- at 3.8B parameters, the weights fit on a single modest accelerator

#### Tasks

[Reasoning](/en/tasks/reasoning/), [Summarisation](/en/tasks/summarization/), [Multilingual support](/en/tasks/multilingual-support/)

**Tasks:** [Reasoning](/en/tasks/reasoning/), [Summarisation](/en/tasks/summarization/), [Multilingual support](/en/tasks/multilingual-support/)

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