Phi-3.5-mini-instruct by Hugging Face

100K monthly Inference Provider credits for free users. Routes to Fireworks, Together, Hyperbolic, Nebius, Novita, DeepInfra and others. Thousands of models.

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128,000 tokens
Model ID
microsoft/Phi-3.5-mini-instruct
Base URL
https://router.huggingface.co/v1
Last verified
June 2026

Quickstart

curl https://router.huggingface.co/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $KEY" \
  -d '{"model":"microsoft/Phi-3.5-mini-instruct","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"hi"}]}'

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Is Phi-3.5-mini-instruct free?

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