Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct

Language Alibaba Qwen Partly verified Released Sep 19, 2024
  • In Input modalities: Text Out Output modalities: Text
  • Tool use
  • Structured output
  • Open weights

Prices

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Alibaba Cloud Model Studio (opens in a new tab) Official China · CNY qwen2.5-72b-instruct
Conditions/ 1M tokensInputOutput
Standard ¥4.00¥12.00

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Details

Reasoning
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Knowledge cutoff
Apr 2024
Family
qwen
Model ID

Not stated on Alibaba Qwen’s pages: max input, reasoning efforts, reasoning can be off, max thinking budget, built-in tools, licence, aliases.

Run locally

Weights: Qwen/Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct
  • Parameters 72.7B
  • Dense
  • Native precision BF16
  • Layers 80
  • KV cache per token 320 KB
  • Config positions 32K (config.json max_position_embeddings)
  • API context 977K (maker’s API)
My hardware GeForce RTX 4090 24 GB · 1008 GB/s · 64 GB DDR5 dual channel · 89.6 GB/s
On your hardware · GeForce RTX 4090
Needs system memory IQ4_XS (automatic) 8K context 2–3 tok/s42/80 layers in system memory
WeightsKV cacheOverheadIn system memoryUsable
Needs
≈ 40.3 GB (weights 36.0 + KV cache 2.5 + overhead 1.8)
Usable
21.6 GB (90% of its memory)
In system memory
18.9 GB · 38/80 layers on the GPU (--n-gpu-layers 38)
Generation speed
2–3 tok/s
First token
about 2.35–3.52 s for a 2K prompt
PrecisionWeightsNeeds at 8KOn your hardwareLongest context
BF16 (native)maker’s file135.4 GB≈ 144.7Doesn’t fit—
Q8_0maker’s file72.2 GB≈ 78.3Doesn’t fit—
INT8 (GPTQ)maker’s file71.8 GB≈ 77.9Doesn’t fit—
FP867.7 GB≈ 73.6Doesn’t fit—
Q6_Kmaker’s file55.7 GB≈ 61.0Doesn’t fit—
Q5_K_Mmaker’s file48.1 GB≈ 53.0Doesn’t fit—
Q5_0maker’s file46.9 GB≈ 51.7Doesn’t fit—
Q4_K_Mmaker’s file41.0 GB≈ 45.5Doesn’t fit—
Q4_0maker’s file38.5 GB≈ 43.0Needs system memory 2–3 tok/s—
INT4 (AWQ / GPTQ)maker’s file38.7 GB≈ 43.2Needs system memory 2–3 tok/s—
IQ4_XS36.0 GB≈ 40.3Needs system memory 2–3 tok/s—
Q3_K_Mmaker’s filequality drops33.0 GB≈ 37.2Needs system memory 2–4 tok/s—
IQ3_XXSquality drops25.9 GB≈ 29.7Needs system memory 4–6 tok/s—
Q2_Kmaker’s filequality drops25.5 GB≈ 29.2Needs system memory 5–7 tok/s—
IQ2_XXSquality drops17.4 GB≈ 20.8Runs well 24–35 tok/s10K

Click a row to choose a precision. “Maker’s file” sizes are the maker’s own files; others are parameters × bits per weight.

Compared with other hardware

Each at the highest precision it runs. Click one for details.

Smallest that runs it (Q4_K_M, 8K): GPU NVIDIA H100 SXM; unified memory Apple M5 Max (40-core GPU) · 64 GB.

Run commands

The maker publishes no files at this precision. Choose its native precision or one of its own builds, or quantise it yourself with llama.cpp.

Memory to fine-tune
Full≈ 1088.1 GBDoesn’t fit your hardware
LoRA≈ 141.1 GBDoesn’t fit your hardware
QLoRA≈ 43.8 GBDoesn’t fit your hardware

Batch 1, 2,048-token sequences, gradient checkpointing; LoRA and QLoRA train rank-16 adapters on the attention projections.

Estimates; facts from the maker’s Hugging Face repositories, as of 2026-11-06. How it’s estimated

Cited scores

From third-party leaderboards, not measured by us
  • LMArena Text 1,303

    #147 of 163 listed models · CI 1,299–1,307 · 39,406 votes

  • Epoch AI · GPQA Diamond 49.1%

    #127 of 168 listed models · ±2.69

  • Epoch AI · MATH Level 5 63.2%

    #30 of 64 listed models · ±1.07

  • Epoch AI · OTIS Mock AIME 2024–2025 8.1%

    #132 of 159 listed models · ±2.61

  • LMArena (Arena), leaderboard-dataset on Hugging Face, licensed CC BY 4.0 · License · as of Oct 28, 2026
  • Epoch AI, 'Capabilities & benchmarking'. Published online at epoch.ai. Retrieved from 'https://epoch.ai/benchmarks'. Licensed CC BY 4.0. · License · as of Oct 18 – Nov 4, 2026
  • changes we made

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Sources

Alibaba Qwen’s official policies: data use, privacy, terms →

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Alibaba Qwen · China · qwen.ai

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