Qwen2.5 7B Instruct API pricing
Alibaba · Budget price tier · Apache 2.0 · released 2024-10. Prices in USD per 1 million tokens. Data snapshot: 2026-10-22.
Qwen2.5 7B Instruct has held the same list price since 2026-10-18 and is the 31st cheapest of 164 models in the Budget price tier. Only one host, Phala, sells it, so there is no second price to shop. No Arena score is published for it, so it carries no Efficiency score and cannot hold the FinOps Friendly badge.
- Input: $0.10 per 1M tokens
- Output: $0.20 per 1M tokens
- Batch API (in/out): Not published
- Prompt-cache read: Not published
- Context window: 33K tokens
- Arena ELO: Not published
Market position
On blended price ($0.17 per 1M tokens at 30% input, 70% output) it is cheaper than 79% of models in the Budget price tier: 31st cheapest of 164, tied with 4 others. Across every price tier it is cheaper than 89% of priced text models in the catalogue: 31st cheapest of 308, tied with 4 others.
Licence, size and capabilities
Qwen2.5 7B Instruct is open source: its weights are published under Apache 2.0, an OSI-approved licence with no field-of-use limit, so it can be self-hosted as well as bought by the token. Its published size is 7B parameters. Listed capabilities: Text, Agents. Filling its 33K context window once costs $0.0033 in input tokens at list price.
Pricing by host
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Phala is the only host with a published rate, $0.10 input / $0.20 output per 1M tokens, which is the price we quote.
| Host | Input $/1M | Output $/1M |
|---|---|---|
| Phala (price we quote) | $0.10 | $0.20 |
List prices as published on 2026-10-22, via OpenRouter. Negotiated rates, committed-use discounts and provisioned capacity are not shown.
Monthly cost at 100K requests, by business use case
From the after-discounts figure (prompt caching on the cached input share, batch API for async workloads, only where Alibaba publishes those rates), which assumes you implement both, to the list price. One figure means no discount is published.
| Use case | Tokens (in/out) | Monthly (after discounts – list) |
|---|---|---|
| Support Ticket | 1,500 / 500 | $25 |
| Knowledge Q&A | 2,000 / 800 | $36 |
| Meeting Summary | 10,000 / 1,200 | $124 |
| Marketing Content | 2,500 / 1,800 | $61 |
| Coding Task | 3,000 / 2,000 | $70 |
| Invoice Processing | 1,500 / 600 | $27 |
| Call Summary | 2,000 / 700 | $34 |
| Agent Workflow | 6,000 / 3,000 | $120 |
Price history
Qwen2.5 7B Instruct entered our daily price archive on 2026-10-18; tracking began on 2026-08-15. It listed at $0.10 input / $0.20 output per 1M tokens that day. No list price change since 2026-10-18. Last checked against the 2026-10-22 snapshot.
Alternatives to Qwen2.5 7B Instruct
- Next cheaper model in the Budget price tier: Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (Nvidia) at $0.161 blended, 5% less.
- Next more expensive: Schematron V2 Small (inference-net) at $0.176 blended, 4% more.
Other models from Alibaba
The 8 nearest to Qwen2.5 7B Instruct in price, of 41 other Alibaba models in the catalogue. Prices per 1M tokens, input then output.
- Qwen3.7 Flash: $0.03 / $0.13
- Qwen3.5-9B: $0.08 / $0.13
- Qwen3.5-Flash: $0.065 / $0.26
- Qwen3 14B: $0.12 / $0.24
- Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct: $0.07 / $0.28
- Qwen3 32B: $0.08 / $0.28
- Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507: $0.09 / $0.30
- Qwen3.8 Flash: $0.15 / $0.47
All 42 Alibaba models and prices
Common questions about Qwen2.5 7B Instruct pricing
- How much does Qwen2.5 7B Instruct cost?
- Qwen2.5 7B Instruct costs $0.10 per 1M input tokens and $0.20 per 1M output tokens at Phala, the host whose rate we quote. Prices as listed on 2026-10-22.
- Which host is cheapest for Qwen2.5 7B Instruct?
- Phala is the only host with a published rate, $0.10 input / $0.20 output per 1M tokens, which is the price we quote. Host rates as listed on 2026-10-22.
- Does Qwen2.5 7B Instruct offer batch or cached pricing?
- No. Neither a batch rate nor a prompt-cache rate is published for Qwen2.5 7B Instruct as of 2026-10-22.
- What would Qwen2.5 7B Instruct cost per month?
- With the Support Ticket profile (1,500 input and 500 output tokens per request), 100,000 requests a month cost about $25 on Qwen2.5 7B Instruct at the list price quoted on 2026-10-22.
- Can Qwen2.5 7B Instruct be self-hosted?
- Yes. Qwen2.5 7B Instruct is open source: its weights are published under Apache 2.0, an OSI-approved licence with no field-of-use limit, so it can be self-hosted as well as bought by the token.
- Has the price of Qwen2.5 7B Instruct changed?
- Qwen2.5 7B Instruct entered our daily price archive on 2026-10-18; tracking began on 2026-08-15. It listed at $0.10 input / $0.20 output per 1M tokens that day. No list price change since 2026-10-18. Last checked against the 2026-10-22 snapshot.
These are list prices. Your real cost also depends on caching and batching, negotiated discounts, marketplace agreements, and the contracts you already have. OptimNow audits exactly that.
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