Qwen2 VL 72B Instruct is Alibaba's language model with a 131K context window and up to 2K output tokens, available from 3 providers, starting at $0.9 / 1M input and $0.9 / 1M output. A 72-billion-parameter multimodal vision-language LLM from Alibaba's Qwen2-VL series, offering high-capacity visual reasoning and image-text generation.
Specifications
Canonical IDalibaba-qwen2-vl-72b-instruct
TypeLanguage
StatusDeprecated
CreatorAlibabaAlibaba
Providers
Context Window131K tokens
Max Output2K tokens
Input ModalitiesImage
Output ModalitiesText
Parameters72B
Deprecation Date

Capabilities

Input1/5
Text·
Image✓
Audio·
Video·
PDF·
Output1/5
Text✓
Image·
Audio·
Video·
Embedding·
Capabilities1/13
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
ProviderStandardBatch
Input
$ / 1M
Output
$ / 1M
Input
$ / 1M
Output
$ / 1M
Alibaba Qwen logo
Alibaba Qwen
qwen2-vl-72b-instruct
$2.29$6.88$1.15$3.44
Fireworks AI logo
Fireworks AI
fireworks_ai/accounts/fireworks/models/qwen2-vl-72b-instruct
$0.9$0.9——
Together AI logo
Together AI
together_ai/Qwen/Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct
$1.20$1.20——

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Cheapest Instances to Run It

Cloud GPU instances that can host Qwen2 VL 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.

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

VersionReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1MStatus
Qwen2 VL 72B Instruct—131K$0.900$0.900Current
Qwen2 VL 2B Instruct—33K$0.100$0.100Available
Qwen2 VL 7B Instruct—131K$0.200$0.200Available

Model IDs

accounts/fireworks/models/qwen2-vl-72b-instruct
alibaba-qwen2-vl-72b-instruct
fireworks_ai/accounts/fireworks/models/qwen2-vl-72b-instruct
nebius/Qwen/Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct
qwen/qwen-2-vl-72b-instruct
qwen2-vl-72b-instruct
together_ai/Qwen/Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct