Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct: API pricing, providers and specs
Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct is a text model by Alibaba. 9 providers serve it, from $0.40 to $0.80 /1M; the lowest price is at FastRouter.
How Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct compares
Against the 737 text models on the site priced the same way.
- Cheap for its class: at $0.40 /1M, its lowest price undercuts 71% of comparable models (median $1.10).
- Its 33K-token context window is larger than 6% of them (median 262K), about 50 pages of text.
- On LMArena's Text board it ranks #93 of the 120 comparable models scored there.
- 9 providers serve it; 75% of comparable models have fewer.
- Its weights are open under the qwen license: commercial use under the maker's terms.
Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct prices by provider
Every provider's list price, read from its own price page or API. A price marked “from” changes with context length, resolution or mode.
| Provider | Input | Output | Prompt caching | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenRouter | $0.36/1M | From$0.40/1M | — | 33K |
 Deep Infra | $0.36/1M | From$0.40/1M | — | — |
 Requesty | $0.23/1M | From$0.40/1M | $0.23/1M | 131K |
 FastRouter | $0.36/1M | $0.40/1M | — | 33K |
 Jiekou.AI | $0.38/1M | $0.40/1M | — | — |
 Hugging Face | $0.36/1M | From$0.40/1M | — | — |
 SiliconFlow | $0.574/1M | $0.574/1M | — | — |
| SiliconFlow | $0.59/1M | $0.59/1M | — | — |
 AIHubMix | $0.80/1M | From$0.80/1M | — | — |
- FastRouter$0.40
- Jiekou.AI$0.40
- OpenRouterFrom$0.40
- Deep InfraFrom$0.40
- RequestyFrom$0.40
- Hugging FaceFrom$0.40
- SiliconFlow$0.574
- SiliconFlow$0.59
- AIHubMixFrom$0.80
Specs
- Type
- Text
- Maker
- Alibaba
- Inputs
- Text
- Outputs
- Text
- Context
- 33K≈ 50 pages of text
- Max output
- 16K
- Capabilities
- JSON, Tool calling
- Released
- Sep 16, 2024
- License
- qwencommercial use under the maker's terms
- Open weights
- Yes, downloadable
- Parameters
- 73B
- Arena score
- 1269Text
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The lowest price for Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct is $0.40 /1M, at FastRouter.
FastRouter, at $0.40 /1M. 9 providers serve Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct; the table above lists every one with its price.
Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct reads up to 33K tokens per request and writes up to 16K.
Yes. Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct's weights can be downloaded from its maker's Hugging Face page, under the qwen license.
About 73B, as the safetensors metadata of its official Hugging Face repo states.
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