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Qwen2.5 72B Instruct API Pricing 2026

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Last updated: January 12, 2026 at 08:06 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
Output47 tok/s
TTFT1.08s
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
Context
Actions
$0.120
$0.390
32,768
Try
$0.100
$0.390
32,768
Try
$0.100
$0.400
1,047,576
Try
$0.100
$0.400
1,048,576
Try
$0.100
$0.320
131,072
Try
$0.100
$0.100
131,072
Try
$0.100
$0.100
32,768
Try
$0.110
$0.600
262,144
Try
$0.110
$0.380
131,072
Try
$0.110
$0.190
2,824
Try
$0.120
$0.200
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.

6
Providers
$0.070
Cheapest Input/M
$0.260
Cheapest Output/M
OpenRouter
Best Price

Provider Pricing

6 models

Provider
Input $/M
Output $/M
Uptime
OpenRouter
OpenRouter
Best Price
$0.070
$0.260
-
D
DeepInfra
$0.120
$0.390
100.0%
C
Chutes
$0.130
$0.520
-
N
Novita
$0.380
$0.400
100.0%
H
Hyperbolic
$0.400
$0.400
100.0%
T
Together
$1.200
$1.200
-
Provider pricing data sourced from OpenRouter and Helicone

Cost vs. Quality

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Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
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Detailed Benchmark Scores

Intelligence
15.6 (41th pct)
Coding
11.8 (30th pct)
Math
14.0 (18th pct)
MMLU Pro
72.0 (46th pct)
GPQA
49.1 (38th pct)
LiveCodeBench
27.6 (30th pct)
AIME
16.0 (38th pct)
Aider
65.4 (61th pct)
Benchmark data from Artificial Analysis and HuggingFace Open LLM Leaderboard

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Frequently Asked Questions

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct costs $0.000120 per 1,000 input tokens and $0.000390 per 1,000 output tokens.
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct is available from 6 provider(s). OpenRouter offers the best price.
We compare Qwen2.5 72B Instruct with 10 similarly-priced models. See the benchmark scatter plot above to compare quality vs cost.

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