Qwen: Qwen2.5 7B Instruct
Review
Qwen2.5 7B Instruct is an impressively affordable small model with tool-use and function-calling support, though no benchmark data is available for this specific variant; it suits lightweight automation tasks where cost is the primary concern.
Assessment date: April 4, 2026
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Performance Profile
Qwen2.5 7B is the latest series of Qwen large language models. Qwen2.5 brings the following improvements upon Qwen2: - Significantly more knowledge and has greatly improved capabilities in coding and mathematics, thanks to our specialized expert models in these domains. - Significant improvements in instruction following, generating long texts (over 8K tokens), understanding structured data (e.g, tables), and generating structured outputs especially JSON. More resilient to the diversity of system prompts, enhancing role-play implementation and condition-setting for chatbots. - Long-context Support up to 128K tokens and can generate up to 8K tokens. - Multilingual support for over 29 languages, including Chinese, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Italian, Russian, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Thai, Arabic, and more. Usage of this model is subject to Tongyi Qianwen LICENSE AGREEMENT.
Capabilities
Architecture
| Modality | Text → Text |
| Tokenizer | Qwen |
| Instruct Type | chatml |
| Parameters | 7B |
Model Information
Pricing
| Token Type | Cost per 1M tokens | Cost per 1K tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $0.04 | $0.000040 |
| Output | $0.10 | $0.000100 |
Live Performance
Live endpoint metrics — refreshed every 30 minutes.
Leaderboard Categories
External Resources
Data sourced from OpenRouter API, Artificial Analysis and Hugging Face Open LLM Leaderboard. Scores are editorially curated by our team.
Last updated: April 4, 2026 8:54 pm