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4.2B parameters
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Multimodal
Reviewed October 2026

Phi-3.5 Vision

Multimodal Phi 3.5. Document and chart understanding at edge size. MIT licensed.

License: MIT·Released Aug 20, 2024·Context: 131,072 tokens

Overview

Multimodal Phi 3.5. Document and chart understanding at edge size. MIT licensed.

Family & lineage

How this model relates to others in its lineage. Family members share architecture and training-data roots; parent / children edges record direct distillation or fine-tune relationships.

Family siblings (phi-3.5)
Phi-3.5 Mini Instruct3.8B
Edge
Phi-3.5 Vision4.2B
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Strengths

  • MIT license
  • Vision in 4B

Weaknesses

  • Patchy runner support outside Transformers

Quantization variants

Each quantization trades model quality for file size and VRAM. Q4_K_M is the most popular starting point.

QuantizationFile sizeVRAM required
Q4_K_M2.5 GB4 GB

Get the model

HuggingFace

Original weights

huggingface.co/microsoft/Phi-3.5-vision-instruct

Source repository — direct quantization required.

Hardware that runs this

Cards with enough VRAM for at least one quantization of Phi-3.5 Vision.

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Frequently asked

What's the minimum VRAM to run Phi-3.5 Vision?

4GB of VRAM is enough to run Phi-3.5 Vision at the Q4_K_M quantization (file size 2.5 GB). Higher-quality quantizations need more.

Can I use Phi-3.5 Vision commercially?

Yes — Phi-3.5 Vision ships under the MIT, which permits commercial use. Always read the license text before deployment.

What's the context length of Phi-3.5 Vision?

Phi-3.5 Vision supports a context window of 131,072 tokens (about 131K).

Does Phi-3.5 Vision support images?

Yes — Phi-3.5 Vision is multimodal and accepts text + vision inputs. Vision support requires a runner that handles its image-conditioning architecture.

Source: huggingface.co/microsoft/Phi-3.5-vision-instruct

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