Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct API pricing
Alibaba · Budget price tier · Qwen · released 2025-02. Prices in USD per 1 million tokens. Data snapshot: 2026-10-22.
Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct has held the same list price since 2026-10-18 and is the 138th cheapest of 164 models in the Budget price tier. Only one host, Parasail, 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: $0.80 per 1M tokens
- Output: $1.00 per 1M tokens
- Batch API (in/out): Not published
- Prompt-cache read: $0.40 per 1M tokens
- Context window: 128K tokens
- Arena ELO: Not published
Market position
On blended price ($0.94 per 1M tokens at 30% input, 70% output) it is cheaper than 16% of models in the Budget price tier: 138th cheapest of 164. Across every price tier it is cheaper than 55% of priced text models in the catalogue: 138th cheapest of 308.
Licence, size and capabilities
Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct is open weights, which is not the same as open source: the weights are published, but under Qwen, a licence that restricts some uses. Read it before self-hosting commercially. Its published size is 72B parameters. Listed capabilities: Text, Vision. Filling its 128K context window once costs $0.1024 in input tokens at list price.
Pricing by host
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Parasail is the only host with a published rate, $0.80 input / $1.00 output per 1M tokens, which is the price we quote. It serves a quantized fp8 build, which is not the same product as the full-precision model.
| Host | Input $/1M | Output $/1M | Precision |
|---|---|---|---|
| Parasail (price we quote) | $0.80 | $1.00 | fp8 |
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 | $134 – $170 |
| Knowledge Q&A | 2,000 / 800 | $184 – $240 |
| Meeting Summary | 10,000 / 1,200 | $880 – $920 |
| Marketing Content | 2,500 / 1,800 | $360 – $380 |
| Coding Task | 3,000 / 2,000 | $380 – $440 |
| Invoice Processing | 1,500 / 600 | $162 – $180 |
| Call Summary | 2,000 / 700 | $222 – $230 |
| Agent Workflow | 6,000 / 3,000 | $612 – $780 |
Price history
Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct entered our daily price archive on 2026-10-18; tracking began on 2026-08-15. It listed at $0.80 input / $1.00 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 VL 72B Instruct
- Next cheaper model in the Budget price tier: GPT-5.4 Nano (OpenAI) at $0.935 blended, 1% less.
- Next more expensive: Qwen3.8 27B (Alibaba) at $0.957 blended, 2% more.
Other models from Alibaba
The 8 nearest to Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct in price, of 41 other Alibaba models in the catalogue. Prices per 1M tokens, input then output.
- Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct: $0.09 / $1.10
- Qwen3.6 Flash: $0.1875 / $1.125
- Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking: $0.15 / $1.20
- Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct: $0.66 / $1.00
- Qwen3.8 27B: $0.04 / $1.35
- Qwen3.7 Plus: $0.32 / $1.28
- Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15: $0.26 / $1.56
- Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-04-20: $0.30 / $1.80
All 42 Alibaba models and prices
Common questions about Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct pricing
- How much does Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct cost?
- Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct costs $0.80 per 1M input tokens and $1.00 per 1M output tokens at Parasail, the host whose rate we quote. Parasail serves a quantized fp8 build, which is not the same product as the full-precision model. Prices as listed on 2026-10-22.
- Which host is cheapest for Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct?
- Parasail is the only host with a published rate, $0.80 input / $1.00 output per 1M tokens, which is the price we quote. It serves a quantized fp8 build, which is not the same product as the full-precision model. Host rates as listed on 2026-10-22.
- Does Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct offer batch or cached pricing?
- Yes, for prompt caching only. Cache reads cost $0.40 per 1M tokens, as listed on 2026-10-22. No batch pricing is published.
- What would Qwen2.5 VL 72B 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 $170 on Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct at the list price quoted on 2026-10-22.
- Can Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct be self-hosted?
- Yes, within the terms of its licence. Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct is open weights, which is not the same as open source: the weights are published, but under Qwen, a licence that restricts some uses. Read it before self-hosting commercially.
- Has the price of Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct changed?
- Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct entered our daily price archive on 2026-10-18; tracking began on 2026-08-15. It listed at $0.80 input / $1.00 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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