Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct is Alibaba's language model with a 131K context window and up to 16K output tokens, available from 6 providers, starting at $0.12 / 1M input and $0.3 / 1M output. A 72-billion-parameter instruction-tuned LLM from Alibaba's Qwen2.5 series, excelling at natural language understanding, summarization, and dialogue.
| Benchmarks | |
|---|---|
| Intelligence Index | #398 |
| Math Index | #230 |
| MMLU-Pro | #211 |
| GPQA | #406 |
| HLE | #514 |
| LiveCodeBench | #238 |
| AIME | #110 |
| IFBench | #296 |
| Time to First Token | #536 |
| SciCode | #373 |
| MATH-500 | #94 |
| AIME 2025 | #230 |
| LCR | #360 |
| TerminalBench Hard | #274 |
| TAU2 | #233 |
| Output TPS | #233 |
Capabilities
Input1/5
Text✓
Image·
Audio·
Video·
PDF·
Output1/5
Text✓
Image·
Audio·
Video·
Embedding·
Capabilities4/13
Reasoning·
Adaptive Reasoning·
Function Calling✓
Parallel Function Calling✓
Structured Outputs✓
Native JSON Schema✓
Web Search·
URL Context·
Computer Use·
Code Execution·
File Search·
Prompt Caching·
Assistant Prefill·
Pricing by Provider
US Dollar ($)
Per 1M tokens
| Provider | Standard | |
|---|---|---|
| Input $ / 1M | Output $ / 1M | |
| $0.36 | $0.4 | |
| $0.9 | $0.9 | |
| $0.12 | $0.3 | |
| $0.38 | $0.4 | |
| $0.36 | $0.4 | |
| $1.20 | $1.20 | |
Cost Calculator
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Cheapest Instances to Run It
Cloud GPU instances that can host Qwen2.5 72B Instruct, ranked by cheapest on-demand price. The model needs about 173 GB of GPU memory at FP16 precision (estimated from its parameter count), so treat the fit as guidance rather than a guarantee.
All clouds
FP16 (full precision)
US Dollar ($)
Instance | Cloud | GPU | VRAM | Price | Cheapest region | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Standard_NP40s |  Azure | 4× AMD Alveo U250 FPGA (64GB) | 256 GB | $6.60/hr | ||
| g2-standard-96 |  GCP | 8× nvidia-l4 | 192 GB | $7.98/hr | ||
| g7e.12xlarge |  AWS | 2× RTX PRO Server 6000 | 192 GB | $8.29/hr | ||
Versions
| Version | Released | Context | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dolphin 2.9.2 Qwen2 72B | — | 131K | $0.900 | $0.900 | Available |
| Cogito V1 Preview Qwen 14B | — | 131K | $0.200 | $0.200 | Available |
| Cogito V1 Preview Qwen 32B | — | 131K | $0.900 | $0.900 | Available |
| QwQ 32B | 131K | $0.150 | $0.200 | Deprecated | |
| Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct | 131K | $0.050 | $0.100 | Deprecated | |
| Qwen2.5 7B Instruct | 33K | $0.040 | $0.070 | Available | |
| Qwen2.5 72B Instruct | 131K | $0.120 | $0.300 | Current | |
| QwQ 32B Preview | — | 33K | $0.900 | $0.900 | Available |
| Qwen2.5 32B Instruct | — | 128K | $0.900 | $0.900 | Available |
| Qwen2 72B Instruct | — | 33K | $0.900 | $0.900 | Deprecated |
| Qwen2.5 Coder 7B Instruct | — | 33K | $0.010 | $0.030 | Available |