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Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: price, performance and context

Open Qwen2.5 72B Instruct by Qwen costs $0.36 per 1M input and $0.40 per 1M output tokens, handles up to 32.8K tokens in one request (≈ 98 pages of text) and scores 7.7 points on the AgentKernel performance index, rank 176 of 212.

Privacy: zero data retention with one provider, not in the EU. Availability over the last 24 h: 100%.

Updated Oct 09, 2026, 17:39 UTC · qwen/qwen-2.5-72b-instruct

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Key facts

Licence
Open weights: free to download and self-host
Input / 1M tokens
$0.36
Output / 1M tokens
$0.40
Context window
32.8K tokens
Max. output
16.4K tokens
Performance index
7.7 points · rank 176 of 212
Coding index
n/a
Agentic index
n/a
Cost at your usage
$0.46 / month
Knowledge cutoff
Jun 2024
In the catalog since
Sep 19, 2024
Capabilities
Tool Calling

What do you get for $10.00?

Rules of thumb from the cost calculator, base rates without caching or taxes.

TaskCost per taskFor $10.00
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Document summariesRead 10 pages, write a one-page summary$0.0017,200
Code reviewsReview and comment on 500 lines of code$0.0024,200
Book analysesAnalyse a 300-page book in one go–does not fit the context

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