What is the context window of Qwen2.5 72B Instruct?

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct supports a context window of 32K tokens.

Is Qwen2.5 72B Instruct free to use?

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct is a paid model. It costs $0.360 per million input tokens and $0.400 per million output tokens.

How is LLM API pricing calculated?

LLM pricing has two components: input tokens (everything you send) and output tokens (what the model generates). Total cost = (prompt tokens × input rate + output tokens × output rate) / 1,000,000 × number of requests.

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct API Pricing — $0.360 Input / $0.400 Output per 1M Tokens

Q: How much does Qwen2.5 72B Instruct cost?

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct costs $0.360 per million input tokens and $0.400 per million output tokens via OpenRouter. Pricing was last updated Oct 29, 2026.

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct by Qwen / Alibaba — $0.360 input / $0.400 output per 1M tokens via OpenRouter. Context: 32K tokens. Pricing last updated Oct 29, 2026.

Input / 1M tokens

$0.360

Output / 1M tokens

$0.400

Provider

Qwen / Alibaba

Context window

32K tokens

Via

OpenRouter

Cost at common usage volumes

Usage	Daily	Monthly
Chatbot (100/day)	$0.068	$2.04
Small app (1K/day)	$0.560	$16.80
Mid-scale (10K/day)	$9.20	$276.00
Large scale (100K/day)	$220.00	$6600.00

Model ID: qwen/qwen-2.5-72b-instruct
Data source: OpenRouter public API — updated Oct 29, 2026.

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About Qwen2.5 72B Instruct

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct is an LLM developed by Qwen / Alibaba. Input costs $0.360 per million tokens and output costs $0.400 per million tokens via OpenRouter. It supports a context window of 32K tokens.

Pricing Details

Via the OpenRouter API:

Input tokens: $0.360 per 1 million tokens
Output tokens: $0.400 per 1 million tokens

A token is roughly 0.75 words. For context: a typical user message of 100 words is approximately 133 tokens; a 500-word system prompt is about 650 tokens.

How Much Does Qwen2.5 72B Instruct Cost?

For a typical chatbot application (1,000 requests/day, 1,000 prompt tokens and 500 output tokens per request):

Daily cost: $0.5600
Monthly cost: $16.800

Accessing Qwen2.5 72B Instruct via OpenRouter

OpenRouter provides a unified API for 200+ LLMs including Qwen2.5 72B Instruct. You can use it with any OpenAI-compatible SDK by setting the base URL to https://openrouter.ai/api/v1 and using your OpenRouter API key. The model ID is qwen/qwen-2.5-72b-instruct.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Yes. Qwen2.5 72B Instruct is available on OpenRouter with the model ID qwen/qwen-2.5-72b-instruct. OpenRouter provides a unified API compatible with OpenAI's SDK format.