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Qwen2.5 72B Instruct

Current board #181Arena #272Official publisher releaseRestricted license

Qwen·qwen/qwen-2.5-72b-instruct

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct is ModelCap current-board rank #181 with Index 24.0 (Measured), from the ModelCap Index as of 22 Sept 2026, 02:49 UTC.

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct listed OpenRouter input price is $0.36 per 1M tokens and listed output price is $0.40 per 1M tokens, from OpenRouter listed prices as of 22 Sept 2026, 02:49 UTC.

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct has a published context limit of 33K tokens in the ModelCap catalogue as of 22 Sept 2026, 02:49 UTC.

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct has 2 published OpenRouter serving endpoints, from OpenRouter as of 22 Sept 2026, 02:49 UTC.

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct weight access is restricted license, from ModelCap classification of published repository metadata as of 22 Sept 2026, 02:49 UTC.

Snapshot facts · download the public dataset · methodology

ModelCap Index · Current board
24.0#181
Measured · 63% support · score interval 19.1–28.9
Evidence as of 13 Sept 2026, 00:00 UTC
Market Gravity
32.0Increased by 0.2
Secondary market signal
Input
$0.36
per 1M tokens
Output
$0.40
per 1M tokens
Context
33K
tokens
Providers
2
endpoints
Gateway spend
latest · Vercel share

Providers

Uptime measured over the last 30 minutes
ProviderInputOutputContextQuantUptime
DeepInfrafp8Cheapest$0.36$0.4033Kfp8100.0%
Novitabf16$0.38$0.4032Kbf16

Hugging Face Inference Providers

Exact repository identity

Provider economics and telemetry published by the Hugging Face Router. These are operational signals, not benchmark results.

ProviderInputOutputContextTTFTThroughputFeatures
deepinfra
live
$0.36$0.4033K587 ms30.0 tok/stools · structured
novita
live
$0.38$0.4032K898 ms34.7 tok/stools
featherless-ai
live

ModelCap Index · Current board

Methodology
24.0
Measured · 2 public benchmark observations across 2 boards
Current board
#181
Public rank basis
Measured (measured)
Index support
63.2% · strong
Index interval
19.1–28.9
Rank posterior
Not available
Top 5 / Top 10 probability
Not available / Not available
Posterior as of
Snapshot timestamp unavailable
Evidence as of
13 Sept 2026, 00:00 UTC
Identity binding
Exact catalogue product · qwen/qwen/qwen-2.5-72b-instruct · aggregates disclosed benchmark configurations · endpoint configuration not claimed · artifact metadata Qwen/Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct@495f39366efef23836d0cfae4fbe635880d2be31 (not the evaluation revision)
Index observations used
2
Qualified Index evidence point
24.0
Bayesian Evidence Score · measured evidence input only

BES normalizes admitted public benchmark evidence for measured Index rows. Its legacy score and observables prior do not define the public language rank.

Observed capability
24.0
Evidence status
confirmed · 77% mass
General preference
23.8
Coding
25.0
Agents & tools
Reasoning
Evidence breadth
92%
Evidence coverage
63%
Market and catalogue signals · secondary, never the language Index rank
Usage (OpenRouter popularity)
8.9
Liquidity (providers × uptime)
77.2
Open reach (HF downloads)
Surface (context / tools / modalities)
35.1
Freshness
6.1
  • · OpenRouter popularity #193
  • · 2 live providers
  • · Catalogue: context 32768, tools
  • · First seen 2024-09-19

These adoption and deployment observations remain context only. They do not change this model's ModelCap Index score or rank.

BES evidence selected · measured input only

The bounded 0–100 capability score blends each source’s competitive placement with its published achievement, then combines capability families. Evidence breadth adds a modest uncertainty adjustment; price and popularity are not part of benchmark-led rank.

Deployment readiness

Metadata index
87.6
strong · 98% metadata coverage
Not capability
Artifact reproducibility
100.0
Access & legal clarity
92.5
Deployability
94.7
Evaluation provenance
53.4

Missing: evaluationProvenance.evaluation-dataset-revisions.

A metadata completeness and deployability index—not a safety certification, quality grade, or production-readiness claim.

Market activity

Venue coverage
Market Gravity
32.0
OpenRouter weekly popularity
#193 of 322

Market Gravity uses OpenRouter’s full-catalogue popularity order. Sparse Vercel top-ten observations appear only when published and do not affect the score.

Arena preference

Status
Ranked
Source
LMArena
Official rank
#272 of 402
Rating
1302.8
95% confidence interval
1299–1307
Votes
39K
Source published at
13 Sept 2026, 00:00 UTC
Category
overall
Identity match confidence
100%

Market Gravity breakdown

Usage55%
8.9

OpenRouter weekly popularity across the full model catalogue.

Liquidity25%
77.2

Independent providers versus the model's open or closed cohort, weighted by uptime.

Open reach15%
50.0

Hugging Face 30-day downloads for open models; neutral for closed models.

Freshness5%
6.1

Time since first public availability, on a six-month half-life.

Specification

Context window
33K tokens
Max output
16K tokens
Inputs
Text
Outputs
Text
Tokenizer
Qwen
Cached input tokens
Not offered
First seen on OpenRouter
19 Sept 2024
Knowledge cutoff
2024-06-30

Capabilities

  • Not supported: Reasoning
  • Supported: Tool use
  • Supported: Structured output
  • Supported: Response format
  • Not supported: Moderated

Weights & access

Restricted license. Downloadable weights use a model-specific or use-restricted license. Review the linked license before use, redistribution, or commercial deployment.

Access
Restricted license
Licence
qwen
Pinned revision
495f39366efe
Parameters
72.7B
Architecture
Qwen2ForCausalLM
Model type
qwen2
Hugging Face downloads (30d)
347K
Downloads (all time)
8.8M
Likes
992
Repository updated
12 Jan 2025, 02:07 UTC
Base lineage
Qwen/Qwen2.5-72B

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Arena coding leaderboardArena (LMArena)13551348–1363#251 of 397Default13 Sept 2026
τ²-Bench Telecom (Artificial Analysis run)Artificial Analysis34.5%#250 of 436tau2:telecom:dual-control:pass-at-1:3-repeats:source-model="Qwen2.5 Instruct 72B":reasoning=false13 Sept 2026
Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run)Artificial Analysis3.6%#579 of 615hle:may-2025:text-only-2158:no-tools:pass-at-1:source-model="Qwen2.5 Instruct 72B":reasoning=false13 Sept 2026

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Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: common questions

How does Qwen2.5 72B Instruct rank among AI models?

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct holds ModelCap Index position #181 of 248 ranked language models as of 22 September 2026, with an Index score of 24.0 (interval 19.1–28.9); evidence: measured. The Index combines public benchmark boards with published uncertainty; the methodology page explains the weighting.

How much does Qwen2.5 72B Instruct cost per 1M tokens?

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct is listed at $0.36 per 1M input tokens and $0.40 per 1M output tokens as of 22 September 2026 across 2 providers. Prices come from the OpenRouter catalogue and re-observe on every refresh. For 1,000 requests using 2,000 input and 500 output tokens each, the listed rates imply $0.92 total (2M input + 0.5M output). This excludes caching, batch discounts, prompt-length tiers, tool charges and retries; verify the chosen endpoint's rate and limits before budgeting.

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

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct has a published context window of 33K tokens (32,768) and a maximum output of 16K tokens. Individual providers can serve less than the published maximum; the providers table lists each endpoint's own limit.

Is Qwen2.5 72B Instruct open-weight?

Restricted license (qwen). Downloadable weights use a model-specific or use-restricted license. Review the linked license before use, redistribution, or commercial deployment. The repository is Qwen/Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct on Hugging Face.

Which API providers serve Qwen2.5 72B Instruct?

2 providers serve Qwen2.5 72B Instruct through OpenRouter as of 22 September 2026: DeepInfra and Novita. Each provider's price, context limit, quantization and measured uptime are in the providers table above.

Which benchmarks has Qwen2.5 72B Instruct been evaluated on?

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct has published results on 3 public boards tracked by ModelCap as of 22 September 2026: Arena coding 1355 (#251 of 397), AA τ²-Bench Telecom 34.5% (#250 of 436) and AA Humanity's Last Exam 3.6% (#579 of 615). Each board page ranks every tracked model on that benchmark; the ModelCap Index combines them with published uncertainty.

How does Qwen2.5 72B Instruct compare with gemma 3n E2B it?

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct ranks #181 (Index 24.0) and gemma 3n E2B it ranks #180 (Index 25.2) on the ModelCap Index as of 22 September 2026. The head-to-head page lines up their benchmarks, listed prices, context windows and provider counts side by side.

When was Qwen2.5 72B Instruct released?

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct first appeared in the catalogue on 19 Sept 2024, with a published knowledge cutoff of 2024-06-30. It is the current version in its family. Rank and price movements since then are recorded on the site's changes feed.