Side-by-side comparison of Phi-4 (Microsoft · USA) and Step-3.7-Flash (StepFun) for self-hosted deployment of the open-weight model. Phi-4 is rated EU-ready; Step-3.7-Flash is conditional. They part ways on licence: Phi-4 is "MIT", Step-3.7-Flash is "Apache 2.0".
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|---|---|---|
| Summary | ||
| Verdict | EU-ready MIT-licensed 14B from Microsoft Research. Heavy use of synthetic training data is disclosed; English-primary (thin multilingual coverage). Strongest small-model option for permissive-licence EU deployments. | Conditional Per the published Apache 2.0 LICENSE, the Step-3.7-Flash weights ship without commercial restriction — a 198B / 11B-active vision-language MoE with a 256k-token context aimed at tool-heavy and agentic workflows. The remaining EU-readiness gaps are the entirely undisclosed training corpus and StepFun's Shanghai-based vendor jurisdiction; deploy on self-managed EU infrastructure and document the Art. 50 transparency story for any synthetic or biometric output. |
| Last reviewed | 2026-04-15 | 2026-05-30 |
| Open-weight | ||
| Licence | MIT | Apache 2.0 |
| Commercial use | Yes | Unrestricted |
| Training data | Partial | Undisclosed |
| Origin | USA | China (Shanghai) |
| Performance & pricing? | ||
| Quality index | 10/100 | — |
| Speed | 29 tok/s | — |
| Blended price | $0.22/M | — |
| Context window | — | — |
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