Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
Summary
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct is an open-weight language model from Alibaba (Qwen), released on Sept 2024. It accepts text and generates text, with a 131K-token context window and up to 8K output tokens per response. As of 4 Oct 2026, the lowest listed API price is $0.36 per million input tokens and $0.40 per million output tokens (OpenRouter), across 2 providers we track.
Qwen instruction model for multilingual chat, reasoning, and tool use
Last verified 4 Oct 2026. Every figure on this page links to its source.
Specifications
| Developer | Alibaba (Qwen) |
|---|---|
| Release date | Sept 2024 [models.dev] |
| Status | Generally available [models.dev] |
| Weights | Open weights [Hugging Face] |
| License | qwen [Hugging Face] |
| Parameters | 72.7B [Hugging Face] |
| Context window | 131K (131,072 tokens) [models.dev] |
| Max output | 8K tokens [models.dev] |
| Knowledge cutoff | Apr 2024 [models.dev] |
| Input | Text [models.dev] |
| Output | Text [models.dev] |
| Reasoning mode | No [models.dev] |
| Tool calling | Yes [models.dev] |
| Hugging Face | Qwen/Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct [Hugging Face] |
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct API pricing by provider
USD per million tokens. Sorted by input price.
| Provider | Input | Output | Cached input | Context | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenRouter qwen/qwen-2.5-72b-instruct | $0.36 | $0.40 | – | 33K | OpenRouter, 4 Oct 2026 |
| Alibaba Cloud Model Studio qwen2-5-72b-instruct | $1.40 | $5.60 | – | 131K | models.dev, 4 Oct 2026 |
Frequently asked questions
What is the context window of Qwen2.5 72B Instruct?
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct has a context window of 131,072 tokens (131K) and can generate up to 8,192 tokens in a single response, according to models.dev.
How much does the Qwen2.5 72B Instruct API cost?
Through Alibaba Cloud Model Studio, Qwen2.5 72B Instruct costs $1.40 per million input tokens and $5.60 per million output tokens. The lowest listed price is $0.36 input / $0.40 output through OpenRouter. Prices last verified 4 Oct 2026.
Is Qwen2.5 72B Instruct open source?
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct is an open-weight model: its weights are published on Hugging Face as Qwen/Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct under the qwen license. Check the license terms before commercial use.
When was Qwen2.5 72B Instruct released?
Alibaba (Qwen) released Qwen2.5 72B Instruct on Sept 2024, according to models.dev.
Which providers offer Qwen2.5 72B Instruct?
We track Qwen2.5 72B Instruct on 2 providers: OpenRouter, Alibaba Cloud Model Studio.
Change history
No changes detected since we started tracking this model. We re-check every source daily.