Qwen instruction model for multilingual chat, reasoning, and tool use
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct by alibaba is offered by 5 providers on this page. Its official list price is $1.40 per 1M input tokens and $5.60 per 1M output tokens. The lowest paid channel is Abacus at $0.11 / $0.38 per 1M, about 14× below the list price. That channel is a third-party gateway, so confirm its availability and rate limits before depending on it.
The context window is 131,072 tokens at the reference host, but hosts report different limits, from 32,768 to 131,072, so the usable window depends on the provider you pick. It supports tool use and structured output. The weights are open, so it can also be self-hosted or served through a gateway of your choice. Providers report the capability flags inconsistently, so verify a specific feature against the host you plan to use. Its training knowledge cuts off at 2024-04.
| 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 | |
| Kilo Gateway qwen/qwen-2.5-72b-instruct | Gateway | $0.36 | $0.40 | — | — | 32,768 ⚠ | 16,384 | |
| OpenRouter qwen/qwen-2.5-72b-instruct | Gateway | $0.36 | $0.40 | — | — | 32,768 ⚠ | 16,384 | |
| Alibaba (China)Official | First-party | $0.57 | $1.72 | — | — | 131,072 | 8,192 | |
| AlibabaOfficial | 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.
Price history accumulates from each data sync; currently only 1 sample(s) (2026-10-19). Each future sync adds a point, and once accumulated a line is drawn here.