Qwen Chat 72B
Analysis Summary
Qwen Chat 72B is an older Alibaba chat model with a large nominal parameter count but little current capability evidence in the supplied record. Its measured intelligence is very low, with only a limited reasoning result and no supplied coding, agentic, context, pricing, tool-use, or vision information.
That uncertainty makes it difficult to justify for client work, especially when newer models offer clearer deployment and performance signals. It could support isolated legacy conversations or simple internal experiments, but it should not be selected for production content, software engineering, document analysis, or autonomous workflows without independent evaluation.
Assessed September 7, 2026
Editorial notes
Qwen Chat 72B is an older Alibaba conversational model with very limited current benchmark evidence. The low measured intelligence and absence of pricing, tooling, context, and multimodal data make it a weak choice for new production workflows.
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DFO Verdict
Qwen Chat 72B is an older Alibaba conversational model with very limited current benchmark evidence. The low measured intelligence and absence of pricing, tooling, context, and multimodal data make it a weak choice for new production workflows.
How Qwen Chat 72B compares
Qwen Chat 72B ranks #355 of 435 AI models we track for overall intelligence. Qwen Chat 72B is currently free to use via OpenRouter.
Dark bar = input · light bar = output, scaled to the priciest peer.
1M tokens ≈ 8 full-length novels or ~2,500 pages of business documents in a single request.
Strongest on content. The pulled-in value corner is the trade-off, and if the shape matters more than the price, this is your model.
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How much does Qwen Chat 72B cost?
Qwen Chat 72B is currently available for free via OpenRouter.
Who created Qwen Chat 72B?
Qwen Chat 72B is developed by Alibaba and was released on November 30, 2023.