Qwen2.5 72B Instruct

by Alibaba (Qwen)Chat

Qwen instruction model for multilingual chat, reasoning, and tool use

Context
131K tokens
Max output
8,192 tokens
Parameters
72.7B total
Released
2024-09
Weights
Open
Licence
qwen

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alibaba/qwen-2-5-72b-instruct · also seen as qwen2-5-72b-instruct, Qwen/Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct, qwen/qwen-2.5-72b-instruct, accounts/fireworks/models/qwen2p5-72b-instruct, +1 more

Specifications

Full facts as recorded, incl. what is unknown.

Released
2024-09
Weights
Opennot gated
License
qwen
Input
Text
Output
Text
Context window
131,072 max across endpoints
Max output
8,192
Providers
11 + 4 gateways, not counted as providers
Epoch Capabilities Index
not evaluated
Direct price range
$0.12–$1.20 in · $0.30–$1.72 out per 1M tokens · 9 of 11 providers have a comparable price
More details
Last updated
2025-11-25
Knowledge cutoff
2024-04
Weights link
Hugging Face · Qwen/Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct
Parameters
72.7B total
Base model
Qwen/Qwen2.5-72B

Capabilities

Across all endpoints: supported if any endpoint supports it.

  • Tool calling
  • Parallel tools
  • Structured output
  • Reasoning
  • Image input
  • PDF input
  • Audio input
  • Audio outputunknown
  • Video input
  • Prompt cachingunknown
  • Web searchunknown
  • Computer useunknown
  • System messages
  • Assistant prefillunknown
  • Temperature
  • Streamingunknown
  • Attachments

Endpoints

One row per provider and variant; gateways are listed separately.

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Price history

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No change since 19 Oct 2026. The cheapest direct price has been $0.12 in / $0.30 out per 1M tokens at hyperbolic on every data refresh since then.

Tracked from 19 Oct 2026. Headline-eligible direct prices only, so a price the sanity check flags never draws a spike. Series as JSON

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