Qwen2.5 3B Instruct is Alibaba's language model with a 33K context window and up to 8K output tokens, starting at $0.044 / 1M input and $0.130 / 1M output. A compact 3-billion-parameter instruction-tuned LLM from Alibaba's Qwen2.5 series, suited for on-device and resource-constrained deployments.
Specifications
Canonical IDalibaba-qwen2-5-3b-instruct
TypeLanguage
StatusActive
CreatorAlibabaAlibaba
Providers
Context Window33K tokens
Max Output8K tokens
Input ModalitiesText
Output ModalitiesText
Parameters3B

Capabilities

Input1/5
Text
Image·
Audio·
Video·
PDF·
Output1/5
Text
Image·
Audio·
Video·
Embedding·
Capabilities0/13
Reasoning·
Adaptive Reasoning·
Function Calling·
Parallel Function Calling·
Structured Outputs·
Native JSON Schema·
Web Search·
URL Context·
Computer Use·
Code Execution·
File Search·
Prompt Caching·
Assistant Prefill·

Pricing by Provider

ProviderStandardBatch
Input
$ / 1M
Output
$ / 1M
Input
$ / 1M
Output
$ / 1M
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qwen2.5-3b-instruct
$0.044$0.130$0.022$0.065

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Versions

VersionReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1MStatus
EAGLE Qwen 2.5 3B InstructAvailable
Qwen3.6 Max Preview262K$1.04$6.24Available
Qwen3.6 27B262K$0.320$3.20Available
Qwen3.6 35B A3B262K$0.150$1.00Available
Qwen3.6 Plus1.0M$0.325$1.95Available
Qwen3 Max Thinking262K$0.780$3.90Available
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B128K$0.140$1.20Available
Qwen3 Max262K$0.359$1.43Available
Qwen3 Max Preview262K$1.20$6.00Available
Qwen3 Coder Plus1.0M$0.650$3.25Available
Qwen2.5 3B Instruct33K$0.044$0.130Current

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