Aihub Phi 4 Mini Instruct
Microsoft · text → text
Microsoft's latest model
Input$0.12 /M
Output$0.48 /M
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Claude Opus 4.8
Aihub Phi 4 Mini Instruct vs Claude Opus 4.8
Compare Aihub Phi 4 Mini Instruct from Microsoft and Claude Opus 4.8 from Anthropic on key metrics including benchmarks, price, context length, and other model features. Access both models and hundreds of others through the AIHubMix API.
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Claude Opus 4.8
Anthropic · text, image, pdf → text
Claude Opus 4.8 is Anthropic’s newest and most powerful publicly available model. It is suitable for the most complex tasks. It is Anthropic’s strongest model for complex reasoning, long-horizon agent programming, and highly autonomous work.claude-opus-4-8 does not display thought content by default; you need to set the additional parameter "display": "summarized" to enable it
Input$5 /M
Output$25 /M
Cache read$0.5 /M
Pricing & Specifications
Prices are per million tokens. Time to First Token and throughput are rolling averages measured on AIHubMix.
Aihub Phi 4 Mini Instruct
Claude Opus 4.8
Input /M
$0.12
$5
Output /M
$0.48
$25
Cache read /M
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$0.5
Context length
128,000
1,000,000
Max output
4,000
128,000
Time to First Token
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1.1 s
Throughput
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82.6 tok/s
Modalities
text
textimagepdf
Supported Parameters
thinkingtoolsfunction callingstructured outputs
API Formats
chat_completions · claude_api
Released
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May 28, 2026
Promotional prices show the discounted rate; see each model page for promotion windows.
Activity Past 30 Days
Daily traffic served through AIHubMix — how demand for each model is trending.
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Tokens / day
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Requests / day
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Performance Past 3 Days
Measured on real AIHubMix traffic, hourly buckets. Gaps mean no traffic in that hour.
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Throughput (tok/s)
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TTFT (s)
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Uptime (%)
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LMArena Benchmarks
LMArena ratings by capability (Bradley-Terry, commonly called Elo). Higher is better.
Text
aihub-Phi-4-mini-instructclaude-opus-4-8
1180128013801480
Overall
12561473
Coding
13061527
Math
12651474
Hard prompts
12781503
Instruction following
12451477
Multi-turn
12411495
Creative writing
12101465
Longer query
12661499
Chinese
12671523
English
12721480
Source: LMArena (arena.ai) leaderboard, imported by AIHubMix. Models without published ratings are omitted per chart.
Cost calculator
Estimate your monthly bill for the same workload on each model.
Aihub Phi 4 Mini Instruct
$14.40 /mo
Claude Opus 4.8
$675 /mo
Monthly = daily × 30. Discounted rates applied where a promotion is active.
FAQ
Which is cheaper: Aihub Phi 4 Mini Instruct, Claude Opus 4.8?
Aihub Phi 4 Mini Instruct: $0.48/M output tokens; Claude Opus 4.8: $25/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.
How do their coding arena scores compare?
Claude Opus 4.8: 1527; Aihub Phi 4 Mini Instruct: 1306 (LMArena coding leaderboard).
How large is each context window?
Aihub Phi 4 Mini Instruct accepts 128,000 and Claude Opus 4.8 accepts 1,000,000 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 4,000 tokens on Aihub Phi 4 Mini Instruct and 128,000 tokens on Claude Opus 4.8.
What inputs and capabilities does each model support?
Aihub Phi 4 Mini Instruct accepts text input; Claude Opus 4.8 accepts text, image and PDF input and supports thinking, tool calling, function calling and structured outputs.
Can I call Aihub Phi 4 Mini Instruct and Claude Opus 4.8 with the same API key?
Yes. AIHubMix serves every model on this page behind one OpenAI-compatible endpoint, so switching between them is a one-line change to the model field — no second account, key or SDK.
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