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Qwen 2.5 72B Instruct API Pricing
Qwen 2.5 72B Instruct costs $0.38 per 1M input tokens and $0.40 per 1M output tokens.These rates were last verified on .
Published rates and billing units
| Billing dimension | USD list price |
|---|---|
| Input / 1M tokens | $0.38 |
| Output / 1M tokens | $0.40 |
Verified 2026-10-08 · Official source · Pricing methodology. Taxes, optional services and account-specific discounts are not included.
Cost examples
These examples use published list prices only. They exclude taxes, enterprise discounts, minimum charges, retries, batch discounts, and provider-specific billing rules.
1M input + 1M output
$0.78
A direct per-million comparison against every other text model.
100K input + 25K output
$0.048
A compact chat, summarization, or analysis workload.
10M input + 2M output
$4.60
A monthly production estimate for heavier RAG or agent traffic.
75% cached input + 250K output
Not listed
Novita AI does not publish a cached-input rate for this model in our dataset.
Calculator for Qwen 2.5 72B Instruct
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Input cost
$0.38
Output cost
$0.40
Total
$0.78
Price history
No list-price movement across 97 daily snapshots from 2026-07-21 to 2026-10-25.
When to use Qwen 2.5 72B Instruct
Good fit
- high-volume routing, classification, extraction, summaries, and fallback traffic
Be careful with
- decisions that depend on unpublished context-window limits without checking the provider docs first