How much does Qwen3-72B cost?

Alibaba has not published per-token API pricing for Qwen3-72B at the time of writing. Check the official site for current pricing tiers, or compare against alternative models on LLMDex.

What is Qwen3-72B's context window?

Qwen3-72B supports a context window of 128K tokens.

Is Qwen3-72B open source?

Qwen3-72B 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 Qwen3-72B released?

Qwen3-72B was released on Apr 29, 2025 by Alibaba.

How much does Qwen3-72B cost?

Alibaba has not published per-token API pricing for Qwen3-72B at the time of writing. Check the official site for current pricing tiers, or compare against alternative models on LLMDex.

What is Qwen3-72B's context window?

Qwen3-72B supports a context window of 128K tokens.

Is Qwen3-72B open source?

Qwen3-72B 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 Qwen3-72B released?

Qwen3-72B was released on Apr 29, 2025 by Alibaba.

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Qwen3-72B

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

UpdatedApr 30, 2026

Quick facts

Released: Apr 2025
Context: 128K tokens
Output / 1M: Pricing not published
License: Apache-2.0

About Qwen3-72B

Qwen3-72B is Alibaba's spring 2025 flagship and the strongest open-weight model on Chinese benchmarks at the time of release. The model also leads the open-weight pack on math reasoning and is competitive on code.

The Apache-2.0 license makes it the preferred choice for teams that need clean commercial deployment terms, particularly in jurisdictions where Llama's community license is awkward.

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 We do not publish numbers we cannot source, see methodology.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

84.0

Broad academic knowledge

GPQA

Graduate-level reasoning

SWE-bench

Real software-engineering tasks

MMLU84.0

Capabilities

Strengths

Apache-2.0 license
Strongest open-weight on Chinese
Strong multilingual coverage

Tracked weaknesses

No native vision in this variant

Pricing

Per-million-token rates as published by Alibaba.

Per-token pricing not yet published for Qwen3-72B. Check the official provider site for current tiers.

Call Qwen3-72B 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-3-72b",
  messages: [
    { role: "user", content: "What's the time complexity of quicksort?" },
  ],
});

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

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Tasks where Qwen3-72B ranks among LLMDex's top picks.

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Frequently asked

How much does Qwen3-72B cost?
Alibaba has not published per-token API pricing for Qwen3-72B at the time of writing. Check the official site for current pricing tiers, or compare against alternative models on LLMDex.
What is Qwen3-72B's context window?
Qwen3-72B supports a context window of 128K tokens.
Is Qwen3-72B open source?
Qwen3-72B 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 Qwen3-72B released?
Qwen3-72B was released on Apr 29, 2025 by Alibaba.

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