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Qwen2.5 7B Instruct
alibaba·alibaba/qwen2-5-7b-instruct·GA·Open weights·qwen series
Qwen instruction model for multilingual chat, reasoning, and tool use
At a glance
Official price$0.072 / $0.144 per 1M
Cache read — · Alibaba (China)
Lowest paid$0.07 / $0.07
NovitaAI Gateway · 2.5× spread
Context131,072
⚠ Providers report 32,000–131,072; the table below is authoritative
Output limit8,192
Capabilities
Reasoning✓ Tool use✓ Structured output✓ TemperatureAttachments
Modalities
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Knowledge cutoff2024-04
Released / updated2024-09 / 2025-04-16
Quality & performance
Artificial Analysis doesn't cover this model (267 of 2059 have data). Quality data comes from independent evals covering widely used models.
Available at 4 providers4 with public prices
| Provider | Tier | Input | Output | Cache read | Cache write | Context | Output limit | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NovitaAI qwen/qwen2.5-7b-instruct | Gateway | $0.07 | $0.07 | — | — | 32,000 ⚠ | 32,000 | |
| Alibaba (China)Official | First-party | $0.072 | $0.144 | — | — | 131,072 | 8,192 | |
| OpenRouter qwen/qwen-2.5-7b-instruct | Gateway | $0.10 | $0.20 | — | — | 32,768 ⚠ | 32,768 | |
| AlibabaOfficial | First-party | $0.175 | $0.70 | — | — | 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
1NovitaAI$17.50
2Alibaba (China) · Official$21.60
3OpenRouter$30.00
4Alibaba · Official$70.00
Switch to NovitaAI to save $4.10/mo (19%). The gap is small, so staying on the official channel is fine.
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