Qwen2.5 72B
AlibabaOpen weightsQwenReleased Sep 19, 2024
Qwen2.5 72B is not on the arena.ai Agents leaderboard, so it has no rank on our default leaderboard; the other data below is for reference. Qwen2.5 72B ranks #290 on the LMArena Text leaderboard (style control) with an Arena score of 1302.9 (±4.1, 39,406 votes). API price: $0.48 input / $0.50 output per 1M tokens. Context: 33K. Nearest rivals: Qwen3 Coder 480B (1387.5) above and Qwen2.5 Coder 32B (1270.6) below.
Quick answer
- Agents leaderboard
- No result yet
- Text (LMArena)
- #290 · 1302.9
- API price (in / out)
- $0.48 / $0.50 per 1M tokens
- Closest rival
- Qwen3 Coder 480B · 1387.5
- Data updated
- Nov 10, 2026 · synced daily
Sources: arena.ai, LMArena, Artificial Analysis, OpenRouter
Key metrics
Models ranked nearby
Sorted by Arena score| # | Model | Arena | Intel. | Output $ | tok/s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 66 | Qwen3 Max | 1423.3 | – | – | – |
| 67 |  Claude Haiku 5.5 | 1422.4 | 36.5 | $0.50 | 234 |
| 68 | Qwen3 Coder 480B | 1387.5 | – | $1.00 | – |
| 69 | Qwen2.5 72BThis page | 1302.9 | – | $0.50 | – |
| 70 | Qwen2.5 Coder 32B | 1270.6 | – | $1.00 | – |
More from Alibaba
| # | Model | Arena | Intel. | Output $ | tok/s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | Qwen3.8 Max | 1484.0 | 33.7 | $6.00 | 38 |
| 34 | Qwen3.7 Max | 1473.8 | – | $7.50 | – |
| 46 | Qwen3.6 Max | 1459.7 | – | – | – |
| 51 | Qwen3.7 Plus | 1455.3 | – | $1.60 | 58 |
| 57 | Qwen3.5 397B | 1441.5 | – | $3.60 | – |
| 62 | Qwen3.8 27B | 1433.4 | 20.1 | $3.00 | 38 |
Pricing
- Official API list price: $0.48 input and $0.50 output per 1M tokens (USD).
- At a typical 3:1 input-to-output ratio, the blended cost is about $0.48 per 1M tokens.
- Among 79 models with an output price, it is the #5 cheapest.
- The cheapest OpenRouter route charges $0.36 input / $0.40 output.
Sources & methodology
Qwen2.5 72B is not on the arena.ai Agents leaderboard, so it has no rank on our default leaderboard; the other data below is for reference.
- arena.ai Agents — agent Net Improvement, 95% interval, sessions and rank (via the public Hugging Face dataset, CC BY 4.0).
- LMArena — Arena score (Text leaderboard with style control, the same view arena.ai shows by default), 95% confidence interval, votes and rank.
- Artificial Analysis — Intelligence / Coding Index, output speed and latency (medians).
- OpenRouter — Route prices, context length and listing date.
Arena scores use the Bradley-Terry model (not Elo); ± is the half-width of the 95% confidence interval. Latency figures are Artificial Analysis medians; for reasoning models, time to first token and to first answer include the thinking phase. Data syncs daily at 14:20 (UTC+8).
Limits: Arena scores come from anonymous users voting on chats, so they reflect conversational preference rather than agent or coding benchmarks; with few votes the interval is wide and ranks move. Prices and speeds change as providers update them.
FAQ
What rank is Qwen2.5 72B right now?
Qwen2.5 72B is #69 on our leaderboard of 70 scored models (Arena score 1302.9); its raw LMArena rank is #290.
What does Qwen2.5 72B cost via API?
Input $0.48 / output $0.50 per 1M tokens (official API list price; the OpenRouter quote when no official price is available). At a typical 3:1 input-to-output ratio, the blended cost is about $0.48 per 1M tokens.
How close is Qwen2.5 72B to the models ranked next to it?
It is 84.6 points behind Qwen3 Coder 480B (1387.5) and 32.3 points ahead of Qwen2.5 Coder 32B (1270.6); gaps smaller than the confidence interval (±4.1) are not significant.
Is Qwen2.5 72B open source? Can it be self-hosted?
Qwen2.5 72B is an open-weights model (license: Qwen); you can download the weights and self-host.
What is the context length of Qwen2.5 72B?
33K (32,768 tokens, as listed on OpenRouter).
Qwen2.5 72B vs Qwen3 Coder 480B: which is better?
On the LMArena Text leaderboard Qwen2.5 72B scores 1302.9 and Qwen3 Coder 480B scores 1387.5 (a 84.6-point gap). On price, Qwen2.5 72B costs $0.50 and Qwen3 Coder 480B $1.00 per 1M output tokens.
Is there a cheaper model close to Qwen2.5 72B?
Among models within 15 Text points, none is currently more than 30% cheaper than Qwen2.5 72B on output price.
Where does the Qwen2.5 72B data come from and how often is it updated?
Agent success rates come from the arena.ai Agents leaderboard (CC BY 4.0), Text scores from LMArena, intelligence and speed from Artificial Analysis, and prices and context from official list prices and OpenRouter. 17NAS syncs daily at 06:20 UTC; this page was last updated Nov 10, 2026.