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4 MLX aliases · Microsoft's Phi-3.5 / Phi-4 line — small, dense, well-aligned.
Microsoft's Phi line — small, dense, well-aligned. We ship the Phi-3.5-mini baseline plus the Phi-4 generation including the mini-reasoning checkpoint that streams reasoning_content via the deepseek_r1 reasoning parser.
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- install
- rapid-mlx serve <alias>
- OpenAI base URL
- http://localhost:8000/v1
Phi-3.5 / Phi-4 · 4 aliases
Phi-3.5-mini baseline + Phi-4 generation (mini / 14B / mini-reasoning). The mini-reasoning checkpoint streams reasoning_content via the deepseek_r1 reasoning parser.
parser: hermes
| alias | hf repo | tool parser | reasoning | flags |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| phi-3.5-mini-4bit | mlx-community/Phi-3.5-mini-instruct-4bit | — | — | spec |
| phi-4-14b-4bit | mlx-community/phi-4-4bit | hermes | — | spec |
| phi-4-mini-4bit | mlx-community/phi-4-mini-instruct-4bit | hermes | — | spec |
| phi-4-mini-reasoning-4bit | lmstudio-community/Phi-4-mini-reasoning-MLX-4bit | hermes | deepseek_r1 | spec |
Notes & caveats
- Phi-4 14B 4-bit is the best quality-per-RAM model in the registry for under-20 GB models.
- Use
phi-4-mini-reasoning-4bitwhen you want CoT streams in <6 GB of RAM.