Qwen coding model for software agents, repository edits, and code reasoning
Qwen2.5-Coder 7B Instruct by alibaba is currently listed from a single provider. Its official list price is $0.144 per 1M input tokens and $0.287 per 1M output tokens.
Artificial Analysis rates it 5.8 on the Intelligence Index. Against its lowest blended price of $0.18 per 1M, that is roughly 32 index points per dollar, which is the value ratio the leaderboards rank on.
The context window is 131,072 tokens, with an output limit of 8,192 tokens. It supports tool use. 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.
Quality is independently evaluated by Artificial Analysis. Speed/latency are model-level medians.
| Provider | Tier | Input | Output | Cache read | Cache write | Context | Output limit | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alibaba (China)Official | First-party | $0.14 | $0.29 | — | — | 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.
Individual evaluations run by Artificial Analysis, on the same reasoning tier as the intelligence score above. Each benchmark has its own task set and harness, so rows are not comparable with one another. The Intelligence Index above draws on a different, newer set of evaluations.