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.
| 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 ⚠ | 29,491 | |
| 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.