Qwen2.5 72B Instruct is Alibaba's language model with a 131K context window and up to 16K output tokens, available from 7 providers, starting at $0.12 / 1M input and $0.3 / 1M output. A 72-billion-parameter instruction-tuned LLM from Alibaba's Qwen2.5 series, excelling at natural language understanding, summarization, and dialogue.
Specifications
Canonical IDalibaba-qwen2-5-72b-instruct
TypeLanguage
StatusActive
CreatorAlibabaAlibaba
Providers
Context Window131K tokens
Max Output16K tokens
Input ModalitiesText
Output ModalitiesText
Parameters72B
HuggingFace Likes927
HuggingFace Downloads (30d)457,915
HuggingFace Downloads (all-time)5,817,981
Release Date · 2 years ago
Knowledge Cutoff · 2 years ago
Benchmarks
Intelligence Index
9.6
#301
Math Index
14.0
#213
MMLU-Pro
0.7
#190
GPQA
0.5
#341
HLE
0.0
#385
LiveCodeBench
0.3
#223
AIME
0.2
#98
IFBench
0.4
#272
Time to First Token
SciCode
0.3
#294
MATH-500
0.9
#81
AIME 2025
0.1
#213
LCR
0.2
#265
TerminalBench Hard
0.0
#259
TAU2
0.3
#215
Output TPS
0.0
#265

Capabilities

Input1/5
Text
Image·
Audio·
Video·
PDF·
Output1/5
Text
Image·
Audio·
Video·
Embedding·
Capabilities4/13
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

US Dollar ($)
Per 1M tokens
ProviderStandard
Input
$ / 1M
Output
$ / 1M
DeepInfra logo
DeepInfra
deepinfra/Qwen/Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct
$0.12$0.39
Fireworks AI logo
Fireworks AI
fireworks_ai/accounts/fireworks/models/qwen2p5-72b-instruct
$0.9$0.9
Hugging Face logo
Hugging Face
novita:qwen/qwen-2.5-72b-instruct
$0.38$0.4
Hyperbolic logo
Hyperbolic
hyperbolic/Qwen/Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct
$0.12$0.3
Nebius logo
Nebius
nebius/Qwen/Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct
$0.13$0.4
Novita logo
Novita
novita/qwen/qwen-2.5-72b-instruct
$0.38$0.4
OpenRouter logo
OpenRouter
qwen/qwen-2.5-72b-instruct
$0.36$0.4

Cost Calculator

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Cheapest Instances to Run It

Cloud GPU instances that can host Qwen2.5 72B Instruct, ranked by cheapest on-demand price. The model needs about 173 GB of GPU memory at FP16 precision (estimated from its parameter count), so treat the fit as guidance rather than a guarantee.

All clouds
FP16 (full precision)
US Dollar ($)
Instance
Cloud
GPU
VRAM
Price
Cheapest region
Standard_NP40sAzure4× AMD Alveo U250 FPGA (64GB)256 GB$6.60/hrwestus2
g2-standard-96GCP8× nvidia-l4192 GB$7.98/hrus-east4
g7e.12xlargeAWS2× RTX PRO Server 6000192 GB$8.29/hrus-east-1
7 more instances can run Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
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Versions

VersionReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1MStatus
Dolphin 2.9.2 Qwen2 72B131K$0.900$0.900Available
Cogito V1 Preview Qwen 14B131K$0.200$0.200Available
Cogito V1 Preview Qwen 32B131K$0.900$0.900Available
QwQ 32B131K$0.150$0.200Deprecated
Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct131K$0.050$0.100Available
Qwen2.5 7B Instruct131K$0.040$0.070Available
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct131K$0.120$0.300Current
QwQ 32B Preview33K$0.900$0.900Available
Qwen2.5 32B Instruct128K$0.060$0.200Available
Qwen2 72B Instruct33K$0.900$0.900Available
Qwen2.5 Coder 7B Instruct33K$0.010$0.030Available

Model IDs

accounts/fireworks/models/qwen2p5-72b-instruct
alibaba-qwen2-5-72b-instruct
deepinfra/Qwen/Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct
fireworks_ai/accounts/fireworks/models/qwen2p5-72b-instruct
huggingface-llm-qwen2-5-72b-instruct
hyperbolic/Qwen/Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct
nebius/Qwen/Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct
novita/qwen/qwen-2.5-72b-instruct
qwen/qwen-2.5-72b-instruct
Qwen/Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct
qwen2-5-72b-instruct
qwen2.5-72b-instruct