InferIndex · https://inferindex.dev/en/compare/microsoft/phi-4/vs/qwen/qwen3-14b
Phi 4 costs from $0.088 per million tokens at a 3:1 input:output mix: the cheapest price. Qwen3 14B costs from $0.103, the cheapest of 7 current offers without a flag. A lower price, $0.091, is listed with a flag. Prices checked on .
Verdict
At these prices, Qwen3 14B costs 1.2× as much as Phi 4 per million tokens (at a 3:1 input:output mix).
Each model's lowest blended price, per 1M tokens, across every provider we track.
| Model | Lowest blended price, $ per 1M tokens. Green background: the most favourable value of each column. | Input price of the cheapest offer, per 1M tokens | Output price of the cheapest offer, per 1M tokens | The provider's published policy says the text you send is not used to train models. We only show what is published; we can't check it ourselves. | For 2,000 input tokens and 500 output tokens per request, 1,000 requests a day, at the cheapest offer for that workload. Change the workload above. | Offers | Providers | The maximum amount of text, counted in tokens, the model can take in and write in a single request. Past this limit, the request is refused or cut. | Observation |
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| Most expensive offer · $0.088. The highest blended price among comparable offers: one price per provider (its cheapest route), standard tier, current prices only. Priority tiers and prices converted from points are not counted. Green background: the most favourable value of each column., most favourable value of the column | $0.07 | $0.14, most favourable value of the column | $0.088, most favourable value of the column | $6.30, most favourable value of the columnat Featherless | 7 | 4 | 16k | Cheapest. Lowest blended price, $ per 1M tokens | |
| Most expensive offer · $0.398. The highest blended price among comparable offers: one price per provider (its cheapest route), standard tier, current prices only. Priority tiers and prices converted from points are not counted. | $0.061, most favourable value of the column | $0.182 | at NanoGPT | $6.38at Greenference via LLM Gateway | 17 | 13, most favourable value of the column | – |
Green background: the most favourable value of each column.
Prices as of Oct 31, 2026, 11:40 AM UTCSame rules as the API's /cheapest route. The monthly estimate uses the cheapest offer for that workload.
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