Benchmark Almanac

Microsoft

Best on the Capabilities Index Phi-4 130.6
28 models 18 model cards read microsoft.com/ai

Microsoft's models against the field

Every model on the Epoch Capabilities Index by release date, with Microsoft's in color.

50 75 100 125 150 175 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027 Phi-4 phi-3-medium 14B Phi-2 Phi-1.5 50 75 100 125 150 175 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027 Phi-4 phi-3-medium 14B

Its strongest models

What its model cards measure

Tall ticks are Microsoft model cards that list the benchmark in their headline table. Gray dots are cards that leave it out. Rows are the benchmarks the lab listed most, at least twice each, in the order it started using them.

Model cards

DateModelDocumentBenchmarks
30 Oct 2026 Mage-VL-Cowork Mage-VL-Cowork model card (Hugging Face) 1
27 Jul 2026 MAI-Cyber-1-Flash Introducing MAI-Cyber-1-Flash inside MDASH (Microsoft AI news) 2
2 Jun 2026 MAI-Code-1-Flash MAI-Code-1-Flash model card (Microsoft AI, PDF) 15
2 Jun 2026 MAI-Thinking-1 MAI-Thinking-1: Building a Hill-Climbing Machine (Microsoft AI technical report), Tables 11 and 12 19
21 May 2026 Fara1.5-27B Fara1.5-27B model card (Hugging Face) 3
4 Mar 2026 Phi-4-Reasoning-Vision-15B Phi-4-Reasoning-Vision-15B model card (Hugging Face) 10
24 Nov 2025 Fara-7B Fara-7B model card (Hugging Face) 4
9 Jul 2025 Phi-4-mini-flash-reasoning Phi-4-mini-flash-reasoning model card (Hugging Face) 4
30 Apr 2025 Phi-4-reasoning Phi-4-reasoning model card (Hugging Face) 12
30 Apr 2025 Phi-4-mini-reasoning Phi-4-mini-reasoning model card (Hugging Face) 2
30 Apr 2025 Phi-4-Reasoning-plus Phi-4-reasoning-plus model card (Hugging Face) 12
15 Apr 2025 BitNet b1.58 2B4T BitNet b1.58 2B4T model card (Hugging Face) 16
26 Feb 2025 Phi-4-multimodal Phi-4-multimodal-instruct model card (Hugging Face) 15
26 Feb 2025 Phi-4 Mini Phi-4-mini-instruct model card (Hugging Face) 17
12 Dec 2024 Phi-4 Phi-4 Technical Report (arXiv 2412.08905), Table 1 12
20 Aug 2024 Phi-3.5-MoE Phi-3.5-MoE-instruct model card (Hugging Face), main benchmark table 21
22 Apr 2024 phi-3-medium 14B Phi-3 Technical Report (arXiv 2404.14219v1), main benchmark table 21
12 Dec 2023 Phi-2 Phi-2: The surprising power of small language models (Microsoft Research blog), Tables 1 and 2 14

Every Microsoft model