Qwen vision-language model for visual reasoning, documents, and agent tasks
Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct by alibaba is offered by 8 providers on this page. Public prices are shown for 7 of them. Its official list price is $2.80 per 1M input tokens and $8.40 per 1M output tokens. The lowest paid channel is NovitaAI at $0.80 / $0.80 per 1M, about 3.5× 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. Accepted input modalities are Text, Image, Video, and Audio. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NovitaAI qwen/qwen2.5-vl-72b-instruct | Gateway | $0.80 | $0.80 | — | — | 32,768 ⚠ | 32,768 | |
| OpenRouter qwen/qwen2.5-vl-72b-instruct | Gateway | $0.80 | $1.00 | $0.40 | — | 128,000 ⚠ | 115,200 | |
| Kilo Gateway qwen/qwen2.5-vl-72b-instruct | Gateway | $0.80 | $1.00 | $0.40 | — | 128,000 ⚠ | 115,200 | |
| OVHcloud AI Endpoints qwen2.5-vl-72b-instruct | Cloud | $1.01 | $1.01 | — | — | 32,768 ⚠ | 32,768 | |
| Cortecs qwen2.5-vl-72b-instruct | Gateway | $1.01 | $1.01 | — | — | 32,000 ⚠ | 32,000 | |
| Alibaba (China)Official | First-party | $2.29 | $6.88 | — | — | 131,072 | 8,192 | |
| AlibabaOfficial | First-party | $2.80 | $8.40 | — | — | 131,072 | 8,192 | |
| Qiniu qwen2.5-vl-72b-instruct | Gateway | — | — | — | — | 128,000 ⚠ | 8,192 | hostTable.undisclosed |
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.