microsoft/phi-4 vs microsoft/wizardlm-2-8x22b
For 100,000 calls of 2,000 in and 500 out, microsoft/phi-4 is cheaper: $21.00 a month at OpenRouter, against $155.00 for microsoft/wizardlm-2-8x22b at Novita AI — 7.4× the cost.
Cheapest on each
microsoft/phi-4
$21.00/mo
cheapest, at OpenRouter — $0.07 in, $0.14 out per million
microsoft/wizardlm-2-8x22b
$155.00/mo
cheapest, at Novita AI — $0.62 in, $0.62 out per million
Aligned facts
Same rows on both sides, including the ones we cannot fill.
| Attribute | microsoft/phi-4 | microsoft/wizardlm-2-8x22b |
|---|---|---|
| Context window | 16K | 66K |
| Accepts | Aa | Aa |
| Sellers | 1 | 2 |
| Cheapest input rate | $0.07 / M | $0.62 / M |
| Cached input rate | ○ no answer | ○ no answer |
No quality or benchmark row appears here. We hold no throughput or accuracy measurement for either model, and a cost-per-quality figure built from a lab’s own claim would look authoritative and mean nothing.
Cost for this workload — both models, every seller
100,000 calls a month · 2,000 input and 500 output tokens each. Sellers of both models lead, cheapest combined cost first.
| Seller | microsoft/phi-4 /mo | microsoft/wizardlm-2-8x22b /mo |
|---|---|---|
| OpenRouter | $21.002026-10-27 | $155.002026-10-19 |
| Novita AI | ○ no answer | $155.002026-10-22 |
Cheapest tier per seller, this workload only. In and output rates, and a cached prefix, are broken out in the cost calculator.