Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct benchmarks, pricing and specs
Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct is an Alibaba Qwen model released on January 26, 2025 that takes text, image and video input and produces text. Its price is not published and accepts up to 128,000 tokens of context.
- Context window
- 128K
Data verified August 6, 2026 · Dataset 2026-10-12
Key facts
- Provider
- Alibaba Qwen
- Model family
- Qwen2.5-VL
- Release date
- January 26, 2025
- Status
- Current
- Access
- open weights
- API model id
- Not reported
- Context window
- 128,000 tokens
- Max output
- Not reported
- Input
- text, image, video
- Output
- text
- Task families
- text, multimodal
- Declared capabilities
- reasoning
Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct pricing
Independent benchmark results
Scores come from independent evaluators that ran the model themselves, pinned to a dated snapshot. Rank is among current models in the same snapshot. Alibaba Qwen's own launch figures are listed under strengths with the publisher named, because they are not measured the same way.
No independent benchmark has published a result for Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct yet. It is still compared below on price, context and capabilities.
Strengths, cautions and best uses
Strengths
- Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct records open-weight access for text, image, and video inputs and a published 128,000-token context window
Cautions
- Hosted token price and infrastructure cost are not represented; measure deployment and operating cost directly
Best for
- Private text, image, and video evaluation
Alternatives to Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
The closest current textmodels by price. The cheapest model that scores as well or better is listed first; failing that, the cheapest one within 3% of the benchmark's scale.
DeepSeek-R1
- From DeepSeek
Gemini 2.5 Pro
- 1.05M context window vs 128K
- From Google
Kimi-VL-A3B-Instruct
- From Moonshot Kimi
GPT-4.1
- 1.05M context window vs 128K
- From OpenAI
Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct FAQ
What is the context window of Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct?
Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct accepts up to 128,000 tokens of context. That ranks #40 of 44 current text models by context length.
Is Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct open source or API only?
Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct is released as open weights that you can run yourself.
What are the best alternatives to Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct?
The closest current alternatives by price and measured performance are DeepSeek-R1 (from DeepSeek), Gemini 2.5 Pro (1.05M context window vs 128K), Kimi-VL-A3B-Instruct (from Moonshot Kimi) and GPT-4.1 (1.05M context window vs 128K).
Sources
- Qwen2.5-VL · Qwen Team · official · verified August 6, 2026
Cite this page
Van Data Team. "Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct Benchmarks, Pricing and Specs." AI Model Benchmark Dataset 2026-10-12. https://vandatateam.com/ai-model-benchmarks/qwen2-5-vl-72b-instruct
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