Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct is a capable open-weight model with solid tool-use and function-calling support at a competitive price, though its intelligence index of 15.6 places it in the lower tier of current models and it has been superseded by newer Qwen releases.
Assessment date: April 4, 2026
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Performance Profile
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..
Capabilities
Architecture
| Modality | Text → Text |
| Tokenizer | Qwen |
| Instruct Type | chatml |
| Parameters | 72B |
Performance Indices
Source: Artificial Analysis
Benchmark Scores
Intelligence
Technical
Content
Benchmark data from Artificial Analysis and Hugging Face
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Model Information
| OpenRouter ID |
qwen/qwen-2.5-72b-instruct
|
| Provider | qwen |
| Release Date | September 19, 2024 |
| Context Length | 32,768 tokens |
| Max Completion | 16,384 tokens |
| Status | Active |
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.
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Last updated: April 15, 2026 8:53 pm