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Ollama abstracts away the complexity of local LLM hosting with an OpenAI-compatible API, making it easy to run Phi models on laptops, desktops, or lightweight servers. This setup is perfect for developers building intelligent assistants, reasoning agents, or on-device chatbots.
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Model Name
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Size (4-bit Quantization)
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Recommended GPUs
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Tokens/s
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| phi:2.7b | 1.6GB | P1000 < GTX1650 < GTX1660 < RTX2060 < RTX5060 | 19.46~132.97 |
| phi3:3.8bphi4-mini:3.8b | 2.2GB | P1000 < GTX1650 < GTX1660 < RTX2060 < RTX5060 | 18.87-75.94 |
| phi3:14b | 7.9GB | A4000 < V100 | 38.46-67.51 |
| phi4:14b | 9.1GB | A4000 < V100 | 30.20-48.63 |
Using vLLM ensures optimal GPU memory utilization and fast token generation, while Hugging Face Transformers provides access to the latest model variants and formats. This hosting stack is ideal for building reasoning engines, chatbots, and AI agents powered by the efficient Phi family.
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Model Name
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Size (16-bit Quantization)
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Recommended GPUs
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Concurrent Requests
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Tokens/s
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| microsoft/Phi-3.5-vision-instruct | ~8.8GB | V100 < A5000 < RTX4090 | 50 | ~2000-6000 |
Despite being smaller than many LLMs, Phi models like Phi-4 and Phi-4-Reasoning are optimized for complex reasoning and instruction following, which demands efficient memory management and fast token generation—necessitating well-configured GPUs and inference engines.
Phi models are available in formats like FP16, AWQ, and GGUF (INT4/INT8). Hosting them efficiently requires software that supports format-specific optimizations—such as vLLM for AWQ and Ollama for GGUF—to balance performance and hardware resource usage.
Whether self-hosted or serving users via API, Phi hosting requires real-time responsiveness. Engines like vLLM or TGI are designed for dynamic batching and asynchronous execution, which standard model runtimes can’t handle well under load.
Phi models are often used in low-cost or edge scenarios, so selecting the right GPU memory size and architecture is critical. The hosting stack must be optimized for deployment on everything from consumer GPUs (like RTX 3060/3090) to enterprise-grade cards (A100/4090) to ensure cost-effective scalability.
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