Qwen2.5 72B Instruct API Pricing 2026

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Last updated: February 15, 2026 at 08:07 AM

Overview

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct was released on September 19, 2024. Pricing starts at $0.120 per million input tokens and $0.390 per million output tokens. The model supports a context window of up to 33K tokens. API access is available through Qwen.

Context Window

33K

tokens

Pricing

Input$0.120

Output$0.390

per 1M tokens

Speed

Output46 tok/s

TTFT1.11s

median latency

Capabilities

Tools

Pricing Comparison

Compare Qwen2.5 72B Instruct with 10 similar models by price.

Current Pricing (per 1M tokens)

11 models

Provider	Model	Input $/M	Output $/M	Coding	MMLU	GPQA	Context	Actions
QW Qwen	Qwen2.5 72B Instruct	$0.120	$0.390	27.6	72.0	49.1	32,768	Try
G Google	Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite	$0.100	$0.400	40.0	72.4	47.4	1,048,576	Try
MI Mistral AI	Devstral Small 1.1	$0.100	$0.300	25.4	62.2	41.4	131,072	Try
O OpenAI	GPT-4.1 Nano	$0.100	$0.400	32.6	65.7	51.2	1,047,576	Try
G Google	Gemini 2.0 Flash	$0.100	$0.400	33.4	77.9	62.3	1,048,576	Try
M Meta-llama	Llama 3.3 70B Instruct	$0.100	$0.320	28.8	71.3	49.8	131,072	Try
QW Qwen	Qwen3 VL 32B Instruct	$0.104	$0.416	51.4	79.1	67.1	131,072	Try
MI Mistral AI	Mistral 7B Instruct v0.1	$0.110	$0.190	—	15.7	—	2,824	Try
NO Nousresearch	Hermes 4 70B	$0.110	$0.380	26.9	66.4	49.1	131,072	Try
QW Qwen	Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking	$0.117	$1.365	—	—	—	131,072	Try
A Allenai	Olmo 3 7B Think	$0.120	$0.200	61.7	65.5	51.6	65,536	Try

* Some models use tiered pricing based on prompt length. Displayed prices are for prompts ≤ 200k tokens.

Compare Providers

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct is available from multiple providers with different pricing and availability.

Providers

$0.120

Cheapest Input/M

$0.390

Cheapest Output/M

DeepInfra

Best Price

Provider Pricing

4 models

Provider	Input $/M	Output $/M	Uptime
D DeepInfra Best Price	$0.120	$0.390	100.0%
C Chutes	$0.300	$1.200	-
N Novita	$0.380	$0.400	100.0%
H Hyperbolic	$0.400	$0.400	0.0%

Provider pricing data sourced from OpenRouter and Helicone

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Cost vs. Quality

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Detailed Benchmark Scores

Intelligence

15.6 (34th pct)

Coding

11.9 (27th pct)

Math

14.0 (14th pct)

MMLU Pro

72.0 (36th pct)

GPQA

49.1 (28th pct)

LiveCodeBench

27.6 (23th pct)

AIME

16.0 (32th pct)

Aider

65.4 (62th pct)

Benchmark data from Artificial Analysis and HuggingFace Open LLM Leaderboard

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