Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct is a capable mid-tier model with tool use, function calling, and solid benchmark scores across reasoning and math — all at a very competitive price. Its 32K context window is a constraint, but it represents strong value for cost-sensitive business workflows.
Assessment date: March 14, 2026
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Qwen2.5 72B 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 | 72B |
Performance Indices
Source: Artificial Analysis
Benchmark Scores
Evaluations
Benchmark data from Artificial Analysis and Hugging Face
Model Information
Pricing
| Token Type | Cost per 1M tokens | Cost per 1K tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $0.12 | $0.000120 |
| Output | $0.39 | $0.000390 |
Live Performance
Live endpoint metrics — refreshed every 30 minutes.
