Phi-4-reasoning-vision-15B alternatives, graded
thecontinuitylayer.com/alternatives/phi-4-reasoning-visionPhi-4-reasoning-vision-15B scores highest on its shelf, 6½ of 7 (grade A), so every alternative below scores the same or lower: MiMo-V2.6-Pro (6½, A), Gemma 4 (6, A−), DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash (5½, B+) lead the ranking. Every grade is read from the maker's own page, checked 3 November 2026, never from a review.
Every open model on the record, ranked
Phi-4-reasoning-vision-15B’s own row is shaded. The five columns are the tests a person switching asks about first; each product page has every test, with the maker’s line and the source. Where the test is about training, no is the good answer and is colored as such.
| open model | Grade | License | Download | Runs locally | Hosted price | Training |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MiMo-V2.6-Pro#1 · Xiaomi | A6½/7 | |||||
| Phi-4-reasoning-vision-15B#2 · Microsoft · this one | A6½/7 | |||||
| Gemma 4#3 · Google DeepMind | A−6/7 | |||||
| DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash#4 · DeepSeek | B+5½/7 | |||||
| Mistral Large 4#5 · Mistral AI | B5/7 | |||||
| gpt-oss-120b#6 · OpenAI | B5/7 | |||||
| NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning#7 · NVIDIA | B5/7 | |||||
| Kimi K3#8 · Moonshot AI | B−4½/7 | |||||
| Qwen3.8#9 · Alibaba (Qwen) | B−4½/7 | |||||
| GLM-5.3#10 · Z.ai | C4/7 | |||||
| Muse Spark Open#11 · Meta | C−3½/7 | |||||
| Olmo 3.1 32B#12 · Ai2 (Allen Institute for AI) | C−3½/7 |
- License · Is it under an open license?
- Download · Can you download its weights?
- Runs locally · Does the maker say what it takes to run it on your own machine?
- Hosted price · Does the maker publish a price for its hosted it?
- Training · Does the maker train on your prompts when you use its hosted it?
Phi-4-reasoning-vision-15B alternatives, by what matters
5 open models under an open license
Phi-4-reasoning-vision-15B passes this test too.
10 open models whose weights download without a form
- A MiMo-V2.6-Pro
- A− Gemma 4
- B+ DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash
- B Mistral Large 4
- B gpt-oss-120b
- B NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning
- B− Kimi K3
- B− Qwen3.8
- C GLM-5.3
- C− Olmo 3.1 32B
Phi-4-reasoning-vision-15B passes this test too.
6 open models with a published hosted price
Phi-4-reasoning-vision-15B's grade on this test: partly.
The one open model whose maker says hosted prompts are not used for training
Phi-4-reasoning-vision-15B passes this test too.
What Microsoft changed lately
Microsoft retired Deep Research in the consumer Copilot app for free users and for subscribers on any plan other than Microsoft 365 Premium; Premium subscribers were pointed to Researcher, and Personal and Family subscribers kept read access to earlier reports. The Podcasts feature was retired in the consumer app the same day.
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Alternatives to the others
- MiMo-V2.6-Pro alternatives
- Gemma 4 alternatives
- DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash alternatives
- Mistral Large 4 alternatives
- gpt-oss-120b alternatives
- NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning alternatives
- Kimi K3 alternatives
- Qwen3.8 alternatives
- GLM-5.3 alternatives
- Muse Spark Open alternatives
- Olmo 3.1 32B alternatives
The whole shelf: Open models. How the grades are made: How we grade. No maker pays for a place or a grade.