Qwen2.5-VL-72B-Instruct
- In Input modalities: TextImage Out Output modalities: Text
- Open weights
Prices
1 offering · prices as listedqwen2.5-vl-72b-instruct| Conditions | Input/ 1K tokens | Input/ 1M tokens | Output/ 1K tokens | Output/ 1M tokens |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | — | ¥16.00 | — | ¥48.00 |
Prices from 阿里云百炼：模型价格 (opens in a new tab) (checked Oct 2, 2026) · How to check model training and deployment pricing-Alibaba Cloud Model Studio(Model Studio)-阿里云帮助中心 (opens in a new tab) (checked Nov 1, 2026)
Standard: the price a request with no conditions pays (the headline price elsewhere on the site).
Details
- Reasoning
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- Tool use
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- Structured output
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- Knowledge cutoff
- Apr 2024
- Licence
- Qwen LICENSE AGREEMENT
- Family
- qwen-vl
- Model ID
Not stated on Alibaba Qwen’s pages: max input, reasoning efforts, reasoning can be off, max thinking budget, built-in tools, aliases.
Run locally
Weights: Qwen/Qwen2.5-VL-72B-Instruct- Parameters 73.4B
- Dense
- Native precision BF16
- Layers 80
- KV cache per token 320 KB
- Config positions 125K (config.json max_position_embeddings)
- API context 977K (maker’s API)
- Needs
- ≈ 40.6 GB (weights 36.3 + KV cache 2.5 + overhead 1.8)
- Usable
- 21.6 GB (90% of its memory)
- In system memory
- 19.1 GB · 38/80 layers on the GPU (--n-gpu-layers 38)
- Generation speed
- 2–3 tok/s
- First token
- about 2.37–3.56 s for a 2K prompt
| Precision | Weights | Needs at 8K | On your hardware | Longest context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BF16 (native)maker’s file | 136.7 GB | ≈ 146.1 | ✕Doesn’t fit | — |
| Q8_0 | 72.6 GB | ≈ 78.8 | ✕Doesn’t fit | — |
| FP8 | 68.4 GB | ≈ 74.3 | ✕Doesn’t fit | — |
| Q6_K | 56.1 GB | ≈ 61.5 | ✕Doesn’t fit | — |
| Q5_K_M | 48.6 GB | ≈ 53.6 | ✕Doesn’t fit | — |
| Q5_0 | 47.0 GB | ≈ 51.9 | ✕Doesn’t fit | — |
| Q4_K_M | 41.5 GB | ≈ 46.1 | ✕Doesn’t fit | — |
| Q4_0 | 38.5 GB | ≈ 42.9 | ○Needs system memory 2–3 tok/s | — |
| INT4 (AWQ / GPTQ)maker’s file | 40.1 GB | ≈ 44.6 | ○Needs system memory 2–3 tok/s | — |
| IQ4_XS | 36.3 GB | ≈ 40.6 | ○Needs system memory 2–3 tok/s | — |
| Q3_K_Mquality drops | 33.4 GB | ≈ 37.6 | ○Needs system memory 2–4 tok/s | — |
| IQ3_XXSquality drops | 26.2 GB | ≈ 30.0 | ○Needs system memory 4–6 tok/s | — |
| Q2_Kquality drops | 25.6 GB | ≈ 29.4 | ○Needs system memory 4–7 tok/s | — |
| IQ2_XXSquality drops | 17.6 GB | ≈ 21.0 | ●Runs well 23–35 tok/s | 10K |
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
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 Vision 1,107
#79 of 89 listed models · CI 1,097–1,118 · 3,768 votes
- LMArena (Arena), leaderboard-dataset on Hugging Face, licensed CC BY 4.0 · License · as of Oct 19, 2026
- changes we made
Changes
All changes →- 2 new prices on Alibaba Cloud Model Studio, China Input ¥16.00 · Output ¥48.00
- New language model
Sources
- Text generation - Alibaba Cloud Model Studio (opens in a new tab) docs.modelstudio.console.alibabacloud.com · checked Oct 15, 2026
- Text generation models - Qwen, DeepSeek, GLM | Model Studio - Alibaba Cloud Model Studio - Alibaba Cloud Documentation Center (opens in a new tab) docs.modelstudio.console.alibabacloud.com · checked Oct 15, 2026
- 阿里云百炼：模型价格in Chinese (opens in a new tab) help.aliyun.com · checked Oct 2, 2026
- Qwen/Qwen2.5-VL-72B-Instruct model card (opens in a new tab) huggingface.co · checked Nov 2, 2026
- Qwen/Qwen2.5-VL-72B-Instruct config.json (opens in a new tab) huggingface.co · checked Oct 31, 2026
- Qwen/Qwen2.5-VL-72B-Instruct files (opens in a new tab) huggingface.co · checked Oct 31, 2026
- Qwen/Qwen2.5-VL-72B-Instruct-AWQ files (opens in a new tab) huggingface.co · checked Nov 1, 2026
- How to check model training and deployment pricing-Alibaba Cloud Model Studio(Model Studio)-阿里云帮助中心in Chinese (opens in a new tab) help.aliyun.com · checked Nov 1, 2026
- LICENSE · Qwen/Qwen2.5-VL-72B-Instruct at refs/pr/34 (opens in a new tab) huggingface.co · checked Oct 31, 2026
- models.dev: alibaba/qwen2-5-vl-72b-instruct (community data, MIT) (opens in a new tab) github.com · checked Oct 31, 2026
- Alibaba Cloud Releases Latest AI Models For Enhanced Visual Understanding and Long Context Inputs - Alibaba Cloud Community (opens in a new tab) alibabacloud.com · checked Oct 31, 2026
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