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Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct pricing
API list price by Alibaba (Qwen) · checked Oct 23, 2026
$2.80 / $8.40per 1M tokens in / out
#272on OpenRouter by tokens · 2.2B / week
Price sheetper 1M tokens
| Input | $2.80 | list |
| Output | $8.40 | |
| Context · max output | 131K · 8K | tokens |
Where to buy2 providers · per 1M tokens
| Provider | Input | Output | Context |
|---|---|---|---|
| Parasail | $0.80 | $1 | 128K |
| qwen | $2.80 | $8.40 | — |
In Alibaba (Qwen)'s line-upper 1M in / out
| Qwen 2 VL 72B Instruct | $2.29 / $6.88 | −18% |
| Qwen MT Plus | $2.46 / $7.37 | −12% |
| Qwen 3.7 Max 2026-05-17 | $2.50 / $7.50 | −11% |
| Qwen 3.7 Max Preview | $2.50 / $7.50 | −11% |
| Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct | $2.80 / $8.40 | this model |
| Qwen3.8 Max Prime | $4 / $12 | +43% |
| Qwen Deep Research | $7.74 / $23.37 | 2.8× |
Cheaper for the same workvs Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct
| Gemini 3 Flash Preview unstated | -73% | score ×2.4 | $0.50 / $3 |
| MiMo v2 Omni unstated | -96% | score ×2.2 | $0.14 / $0.28 |
| Kimi K2.5 unstatedOpen | -71% | score +100% | $0.60 / $3 |
| GPT-5 unstated | -18% | score +92% | $1.25 / $10 |
| Gemma 4 31B unstatedOpen | -96% | score +39% | $0.10 / $0.34 |
Pricing questions
How much does Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct cost?›
$2.80 per 1M input tokens and $8.40 per 1M output tokens.
Is Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct free to use?›
There is no free API tier, but the weights are open: you can run it on your own hardware for the cost of compute.
What is a cheaper alternative to Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct?›
Gemini 3 Flash Preview at unstated effort costs -73% per task with a score ×2.4 on Video-MME 2 · without subtitles/audio.