Microsoft: Phi 4 vs Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus
Side-by-side comparison — pricing, context window, capabilities, and live leaderboard data.
Key differences
- Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus has a 1000K-token context window — 61.0× larger than Microsoft: Phi 4's 16K.
- Microsoft: Phi 4 is 80% cheaper per 1K input tokens than Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus ($0.0001 vs $0.0003).
- Microsoft: Phi 4 is built by Microsoft; Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus is built by Qwen.
- Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus supports vision (image inputs); the other does not.
Specifications
| Microsoft: Phi 4 | Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Microsoft | Qwen |
| Context window | 16K | 1000K |
| Max output tokens | 8192 | 8192 |
| Input price / 1K tokens | $0.0001 | $0.0003 |
| Output price / 1K tokens | $0.0001 | $0.0019 |
| Vision support | No | Yes |
| Function calling | No | No |
| License | Proprietary | Proprietary |
About Microsoft: Phi 4
US·Closed[Microsoft Research](/microsoft) Phi-4 is designed to perform well in complex reasoning tasks and can operate efficiently in situations with limited memory or where quick responses are needed. At 14 billion...
View Microsoft: Phi 4 reliability and benchmark history →About Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus
CN·ClosedQwen 3.6 Plus builds on a hybrid architecture that combines efficient linear attention with sparse mixture-of-experts routing, enabling strong scalability and high-performance inference. Compared to the 3.5 series, it delivers...
View Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus reliability and benchmark history →Try them yourself
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