How much does Qwen2.5-72B cost?

Alibaba has not published per-token API pricing for Qwen2.5-72B at the time of writing. Check the official site for current pricing tiers, or compare against alternative models on LLMDex.

What is Qwen2.5-72B's context window?

Qwen2.5-72B supports a context window of 128K tokens.

Is Qwen2.5-72B open source?

Qwen2.5-72B ships with open weights under the Apache-2.0 license. You can self-host it, fine-tune it, and (subject to the license terms) deploy it commercially.

When was Qwen2.5-72B released?

Qwen2.5-72B was released on Sep 19, 2024 by Alibaba.

How much does Qwen2.5-72B cost?

Alibaba has not published per-token API pricing for Qwen2.5-72B at the time of writing. Check the official site for current pricing tiers, or compare against alternative models on LLMDex.

What is Qwen2.5-72B's context window?

Qwen2.5-72B supports a context window of 128K tokens.

Is Qwen2.5-72B open source?

Qwen2.5-72B ships with open weights under the Apache-2.0 license. You can self-host it, fine-tune it, and (subject to the license terms) deploy it commercially.

When was Qwen2.5-72B released?

Qwen2.5-72B was released on Sep 19, 2024 by Alibaba.

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Qwen2.5-72B

The previous-generation Qwen flagship, still widely deployed for stability.

UpdatedApr 30, 2026

Quick facts

Released: Sep 2024
Context: 128K tokens
Output / 1M: Pricing not published
License: Apache-2.0

About Qwen2.5-72B

Qwen2.5-72B was Alibaba's late-2024 flagship and the model that established Qwen as a genuine alternative to Llama for commercial-friendly open-weight deployments. Heavily used in 2025 production stacks; Qwen3 is the recommended upgrade.

Benchmarks

Published scores from Alibaba's model card or independent leaderboards. We do not publish numbers we cannot source, see methodology.

HumanEval

Python coding pass@1

MMLU

86.0

Broad academic knowledge

GPQA

Graduate-level reasoning

SWE-bench

Real software-engineering tasks

MMLU86.0

Capabilities

Strengths

Mature deployment
Apache-2.0
Strong multilingual

Tracked weaknesses

Superseded by Qwen3 for new builds

Pricing

Per-million-token rates as published by Alibaba.

Per-token pricing not yet published for Qwen2.5-72B. Check the official provider site for current tiers.

Call Qwen2.5-72B from your code

Drop-in snippet for the Alibaba SDK. Set your API key in the environment and run.

typescript

import OpenAI from "openai";

const client = new OpenAI({
  // Use OPENAI_API_KEY for OpenAI, or your provider's key + baseURL.
  apiKey: process.env.OPENAI_API_KEY,
});

const completion = await client.chat.completions.create({
  model: "qwen-2-5-72b",
  messages: [
    { role: "user", content: "What's the time complexity of quicksort?" },
  ],
});

console.log(completion.choices[0].message.content);

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Frequently asked

How much does Qwen2.5-72B cost?
Alibaba has not published per-token API pricing for Qwen2.5-72B at the time of writing. Check the official site for current pricing tiers, or compare against alternative models on LLMDex.
What is Qwen2.5-72B's context window?
Qwen2.5-72B supports a context window of 128K tokens.
Is Qwen2.5-72B open source?
Qwen2.5-72B ships with open weights under the Apache-2.0 license. You can self-host it, fine-tune it, and (subject to the license terms) deploy it commercially.
When was Qwen2.5-72B released?
Qwen2.5-72B was released on Sep 19, 2024 by Alibaba.

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