AI Model Atlas / Qwen (Alibaba)
Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct
One million input tokens cost $0.80 and one million output tokens $1.00. Context window: 128k tokens, about 213 A4 pages.
What it costs in practice
Pricing per million tokens doesn't mean anything to anyone, so I convert it to three tasks that people actually give to models. The usage assumptions are listed for each row so you can verify them.
| Task | Input | Output | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1500-word articlebrief plus finished text in English | 1,500 tokens | 2,200 tokens | $0.0034 |
| 100 chat queries700 tokens per question and 400 per answer | 70,000 tokens | 40,000 tokens | $0.10 |
| Hour of work with an agentagent reads repository and writes fixes | 250,000 tokens | 30,000 tokens | $0.23 |
Technical details
| Provider | Qwen (Alibaba) |
| Modalities | text + image → text |
| Context window | 128k tokens (~213 A4 pages) |
| Maximum response | 115k tokens |
| Step-by-step reasoning | no |
| Tool calling | no |
| Forced JSON format | yes |
| Knowledge cutoff | 2024-06-30 |
| Cache read | $0.40 per million |
| Content moderation | no extra filter |
How it compares to the rest
The database contains 469 models. In terms of input pricing Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct is more expensive than 59 percent of paid models. A longer context window is available in 401 models.
Input price history
2026-09-08 · $0.802026-11-11 · $0.80
The chart shows the price of a million input tokens on consecutive measurement days. History starts on the day I launched the atlas and grows with each day. I don't backfill data.
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