Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct

Alibaba Qwen chatcodevision

API ID: qwen/qwen2.5-vl-72b-instruct

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Input Price
$0.15
/1M tokens
Output Price
$0.60
/1M tokens

About Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct

Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct is a budget-friendly general-purpose model from Alibaba Qwen with long context (128k), suitable for conversations, content creation, and general AI tasks.

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Price Ranking
#780 lowest price among 1240 Chat models

Model Specifications

Context Length
128k
Max Output
—
Release Date
2025-02-01
Capabilities
chat code vision
Input Modalities
textimage
Output Modalities
text

Best For

  • Code generation, debugging, code review, refactoring
  • Image analysis, document understanding, visual Q&A
  • Conversations, content writing, general assistance

💰 Real-World Cost Examples

Estimated monthly costs for common use cases

Personal AI Assistant
$0.25
/month
50 conversations/day, ~500 tokens each
Code Copilot
$2.16
/month
200 completions/day, ~1k tokens each
Customer Service Bot
$7.65
/month
1000 tickets/day, ~800 tokens each
Data Analysis Pipeline
$10.57
/month
500 analyses/day, ~2k tokens each
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🚀 Quick Start

Get started with Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct API

OpenAI-compatible SDK 
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.provider.com/v1",
    api_key="YOUR_API_KEY"
)

response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="qwen/qwen2.5-vl-72b-instruct",
    messages=[
        {"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}
    ]
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)

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