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Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
alibaba·alibaba/qwen-2.5-72b-instruct-2·GA·Open weights·qwen series
Qwen instruction model for multilingual chat, reasoning, and tool use
At a glance
Official price$0.574 / $1.72 per 1M
Cache read — · Alibaba (China)
Lowest paid$0.11 / $0.38
Abacus Gateway · 12.7× spread
Context131,072
⚠ Providers report 32,000–131,072; the table below is authoritative
Output limit8,192
Capabilities
Reasoning✓ Tool use✓ Structured output✓ TemperatureAttachments
⚠ Providers report capability flags inconsistently
Modalities
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Knowledge cutoff2024-04
Released / updated2024-09-19 / 2024-10-15
Quality & performanceArtificial Analysis · Intelligence Index v4.1
Intelligence9.4
Value53
Coding—
Agentic—
Output speed—
TTFT—
Value formulaIQ 9.4 ÷ min blended $0.177 = 53
Quality is independently evaluated by Artificial Analysis. Speed/latency are model-level medians.
Available at 6 providers6 with public prices
| Provider | Tier | Input | Output | Cache read | Cache write | Context | Output limit | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abacus Qwen/Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct | Gateway | $0.11 | $0.38 | — | — | 128,000 ⚠ | 8,192 | |
| OpenRouter qwen/qwen-2.5-72b-instruct | Gateway | $0.36 | $0.40 | — | — | 32,768 ⚠ | 16,384 | |
| Kilo Gateway qwen/qwen-2.5-72b-instruct | Gateway | $0.36 | $0.40 | — | — | 32,768 ⚠ | 16,384 | |
| NovitaAI qwen/qwen-2.5-72b-instruct | Gateway | $0.38 | $0.40 | — | — | 32,000 ⚠ | 8,192 | |
| Alibaba (China)Official qwen2-5-72b-instruct | First-party | $0.574 | $1.72 | — | — | 131,072 | 8,192 | |
| AlibabaOfficial qwen2-5-72b-instruct | First-party | $1.40 | $5.60 | — | — | 131,072 | 8,192 |
Sorted by blended price (input×0.75 + output×0.25) asc. The official channel always shows regardless of rank. Whether a gateway's low price is actually usable can't be verified.
Your usage cost
1Abacus$41.00
2OpenRouter$92.00
3Kilo Gateway$92.00
4NovitaAI$96.00
5Alibaba (China) · Official$200.85
6Alibaba · Official$560.00
Switch to Abacus to save $159.85/mo (80%)
Note: this is a gateway; verify availability and rate limits yourself.
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Price historyone sample accumulated per data sync
Input listOutput listMin blended