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Qwen2-72B-Instruct

Previous Gen

Previous-generation flagship Qwen. Largely superseded by Qwen2.5 — kept for legacy fine-tunes.

Qwen2-72B-Instruct is a frontier AI model from Qwen. It costs $0.900 per million input tokens and $0.900 per million output tokens (blended $0.900/M), with a 128K-token context window.

Released Jun 2024Modalities textOfficial model page ↗Compare with another model →Estimate monthly cost →
INPUT
$0.900/M
per million input tokens
OUTPUT
$0.900/M
per million output tokens
BLENDED 70/30
$0.900/M
default reference rate · how it's calculated →
CONTEXT
128K
128,000 tokens
What it's good at
  • Open weights
  • Multilingual
  • Wide ecosystem
Typical use cases
  • Existing Qwen2 fine-tunes
  • Migration to Qwen2.5
Benchmarks
vs. best public score
MMLU84%
Multitask academic knowledge across 57 subjects.
GPQA Diamond42%
Graduate-level science questions, "Google-proof".
MATH69%
High-school competition math problems.
HumanEval79%
Python function synthesis from docstrings.
LMArena Elo1187 Elo
Crowd-sourced head-to-head preference Elo rating.
Hand-curated from each provider's published reports and public leaderboards. Methodology varies across sources — treat as directional rather than authoritative.
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Frequently asked questions

How much does Qwen2-72B-Instruct cost?

Qwen2-72B-Instruct costs $0.900 per million input tokens and $0.900 per million output tokens, for a blended reference rate of $0.900 per million tokens.

What is Qwen2-72B-Instruct's context window?

Qwen2-72B-Instruct supports up to 128K tokens of context (128,000 tokens).

What is Qwen2-72B-Instruct best for?

Qwen2-72B-Instruct is well suited to Open weights, Multilingual and Wide ecosystem.

Who makes Qwen2-72B-Instruct?

Qwen2-72B-Instruct is developed and served by Qwen. It was released in Jun 2024.