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Qwen2.5-7B vs Qwen2-VL-72B

A complete head-to-head: pricing, context window, benchmarks, modality coverage, and openness, with a programmatic verdict synthesized from the underlying data.

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Qwen2.5-7B specs · Qwen2-VL-72B specs
Verdict by category
  • PriceTie

    Neither model publishes per-token API pricing.

  • Context windowTie

    Both ship a 128K-token context window.

  • BenchmarksTie

    No directly comparable public benchmarks are available for both models, check the spec sheets for individual scores.

  • ModalitiesQwen2-VL-72B

    Qwen2-VL-72B supports 2 modalities (text, vision) vs 1 for Qwen2.5-7B.

  • OpennessTie

    Both ship open weights, self-host either one.

On balance Qwen2-VL-72B edges ahead, winning 1 of 5 categories against Qwen2.5-7B's 0. Neither model publishes per-token API pricing. Both ship a 128K-token context window.

No directly comparable public benchmarks are available for both models, check the spec sheets for individual scores. They differ in modality coverage, Qwen2.5-7B handles text while Qwen2-VL-72B handles text, vision, which can be the deciding factor before you even look at benchmarks. Both ship open weights, self-host either one.

Both shipped within roughly a month of each other in 2024, so they share the same generation of training data and tooling. Qwen2.5-7B is usually picked for local llm and on device workloads, while Qwen2-VL-72B sees more deployments in vision and ocr. If pricing matters more than every last benchmark point, run the numbers in the calculator below before committing.

Side-by-side specs

SpecQwen2.5-7BQwen2-VL-72B
ProviderAlibabaAlibaba
ReleasedSep 2024Aug 2024
Modalitiestexttext, vision
Context window128K tokens128K tokens
Max output,,
Input · 1MPricing not publishedPricing not published
Output · 1MPricing not publishedPricing not published
Knowledge cutoff,,
Open weightsYes (Apache-2.0)Yes (Apache-2.0)
API availableYesYes

Pricing at scale

What you'd actually pay at typical workloads. Numbers come from each model's published per-million-token rates.

  • Light usage, 100k in / 50k out per day, vs ,
  • Heavy usage, 1M in / 500k out per day, vs ,
  • RAG workload, 5M in / 200k out per day, vs ,

Light usage, 100k in / 50k out per day: pricing not directly comparable (one or both models are missing public per-token rates). Heavy usage, 1M in / 500k out per day: pricing not directly comparable (one or both models are missing public per-token rates). RAG workload, 5M in / 200k out per day: pricing not directly comparable (one or both models are missing public per-token rates).

Price calculator

Estimated spend for the listed models at your usage. Numbers are derived from each model's published per-million-token rates.

  • Qwen2.5-7BPricing unavailable
  • Qwen2-VL-72BPricing unavailable

Benchmarks compared

Only sourced numbers. Where a benchmark is missing for one model we show the available value rather than fabricating the other.

Benchmark scores not yet available. We only publish numbers we can source from official model cards or independent leaderboards, see methodology.
Pick Qwen2.5-7B if

Qwen2.5-7B fits when…

  • Apache-2.0
  • Runs on laptops
  • Strong multilingual
Pick Qwen2-VL-72B if

Qwen2-VL-72B fits when…

  • Top open vision-language model
  • Apache-2.0
  • Strong on documents
  • Multimodal needs covering vision.
Don't want either?

Consider Qwen3-72B

Alibaba's flagship open-weight Qwen3, strong on multilingual, code, and math, Apache-2.0 licensed.

See Qwen3-72B specsQwen2.5-7B vs Qwen3-72BQwen2-VL-72B vs Qwen3-72B

Frequently asked

  • Is Qwen2.5-7B or Qwen2-VL-72B cheaper?
    Per-token pricing isn't published for at least one of these models, check each model's spec page for current rates.
  • Which has the larger context window?
    Both Qwen2.5-7B and Qwen2-VL-72B ship a 128K-token context window.
  • Is Qwen2.5-7B or Qwen2-VL-72B better for coding?
    Both Qwen2.5-7B and Qwen2-VL-72B are competitive on coding benchmarks. See each model's individual spec page for HumanEval and SWE-bench scores where published. For an opinionated pick, consult our Best LLM for Coding ranking.
  • Are either of these models open source?
    Both ship with open weights. Qwen2.5-7B is licensed under Apache-2.0; Qwen2-VL-72B under Apache-2.0.
  • When were Qwen2.5-7B and Qwen2-VL-72B released?
    Qwen2.5-7B was released by Alibaba on 2024-09-19. Qwen2-VL-72B was released by Alibaba on 2024-08-29.
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