Phi-4 Mini
Small and quick, punches above its weight on reasoning
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Microsoft trained this heavily on step-by-step reasoning rather than raw volume, so it handles maths and logic better than its size suggests.
At around 2GB it loads in seconds and runs acceptably even without a graphics card.
Available versions
| Quantization | Size | VRAM | RAM | Context | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Q4_K_M | 2.5 GB | 3.0 GBest. | 5.4 GB | 8k | Install |
Memory needed grows with the length of a conversation, so these figures are for the context shown. Anything marked est. is worked out from the file size rather than measured on real hardware — the app says so there too. The desktop app checks all of it against your actual machine before installing.