Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
Summary
Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct is an open-weight language model from Alibaba (Qwen), released on Sept 2024. It accepts text and images 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 $0.80 per million input tokens and $1 per million output tokens (OpenRouter), across 2 providers we track.
Qwen vision-language model for visual reasoning, documents, and agent tasks
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 | 73.4B [Hugging Face] |
| Context window | 131K (131,072 tokens) [models.dev] |
| Max output | 8K tokens [models.dev] |
| Knowledge cutoff | Apr 2024 [models.dev] |
| Input | Text and images [models.dev] |
| Output | Text [models.dev] |
| Reasoning mode | No [models.dev] |
| Tool calling | Yes [models.dev] |
| Hugging Face | Qwen/Qwen2.5-VL-72B-Instruct [Hugging Face] |
Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct API pricing by provider
USD per million tokens. Sorted by input price.
| Provider | Input | Output | Cached input | Context | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenRouter qwen/qwen2.5-vl-72b-instruct | $0.80 | $1 | $0.40 | 128K | OpenRouter, 4 Oct 2026 |
| Alibaba Cloud Model Studio qwen2-5-vl-72b-instruct | $2.80 | $8.40 | – | 131K | models.dev, 4 Oct 2026 |
Frequently asked questions
What is the context window of Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct?
Qwen2.5-VL 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-VL 72B Instruct API cost?
Through Alibaba Cloud Model Studio, Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct costs $2.80 per million input tokens and $8.40 per million output tokens. The lowest listed price is $0.80 input / $1 output through OpenRouter. Prices last verified 4 Oct 2026.
Is Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct open source?
Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct is an open-weight model: its weights are published on Hugging Face as Qwen/Qwen2.5-VL-72B-Instruct under the qwen license. Check the license terms before commercial use.
When was Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct released?
Alibaba (Qwen) released Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct on Sept 2024, according to models.dev.
Which providers offer Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct?
We track Qwen2.5-VL 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.