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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

Qwen2.5 7B Instruct by alibaba is offered by 4 providers on this page. Its official list price is $0.072 per 1M input tokens and $0.144 per 1M output tokens. The lowest paid channel is NovitaAI at $0.07 / $0.07 per 1M, about 2.5× 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 32,000 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. Its training knowledge cuts off at 2024-04.

Specs & pricing

Input / output per 1M tokens
Official price·Alibaba (China)
$0.072 / $0.144
Blended $0.09 · Cache read —
Lowest paid·NovitaAIGateway
$0.07 / $0.07
Blended $0.07 · 2.5× spread
Context
131,072
Output limit
8,192
Knowledge cutoff
2024-04
Released / updated
2024-09 / 2025-04-16
Capabilities
Reasoning✓ Tool use✓ Structured output✓ TemperatureAttachments
Modalities
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Available at 4 providers4 with public prices

ProviderTierInputOutputCache readCache writeContextOutput limitStatus
NovitaAI
qwen/qwen2.5-7b-instruct
Gateway$0.07$0.07——32,000 ⚠32,000
Alibaba (China)OfficialFirst-party$0.072$0.144——131,0728,192
OpenRouter
qwen/qwen-2.5-7b-instruct
Gateway$0.10$0.20——32,768 ⚠29,491
AlibabaOfficialFirst-party$0.175$0.70——131,0728,192

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
$0.70$02026-08-052026-08-132026-08-05 · Input list $0.1752026-08-06 · Input list $0.1752026-08-07 · Input list $0.1752026-08-08 · Input list $0.1752026-08-09 · Input list $0.1752026-08-10 · Input list $0.1752026-08-11 · Input list $0.1752026-08-12 · Input list $0.1752026-08-13 · Input list $0.0722026-08-05 · Output list $0.702026-08-06 · Output list $0.702026-08-07 · Output list $0.702026-08-08 · Output list $0.702026-08-09 · Output list $0.702026-08-10 · Output list $0.702026-08-11 · Output list $0.702026-08-12 · Output list $0.702026-08-13 · Output list $0.1442026-08-05 · Min blended $0.072026-08-06 · Min blended $0.072026-08-07 · Min blended $0.072026-08-08 · Min blended $0.072026-08-09 · Min blended $0.072026-08-10 · Min blended $0.072026-08-11 · Min blended $0.072026-08-12 · Min blended $0.072026-08-13 · Min blended $0.07
Data partly from models.dev (MIT) · Alibaba (China) official docs ↗