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Qwen2.5 72B Instruct

qwen/qwen-2.5-72b-instruct:free

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Qwen2.5 72B is the latest series of Qwen large language models. Qwen2.5 brings the following improvements upon Qwen2:

  • Significantly more knowledge and has greatly improved capabilities in coding and mathematics, thanks to our specialized expert models in these domains.

  • Significant improvements in instruction following, generating long texts (over 8K tokens), understanding structured data (e.g, tables), and generating structured outputs especially JSON. More resilient to the diversity of system prompts, enhancing role-play implementation and condition-setting for chatbots.

  • Long-context Support up to 128K tokens and can generate up to 8K tokens.

  • Multilingual support for over 29 languages, including Chinese, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Italian, Russian, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Thai, Arabic, and more.

Usage of this model is subject to Tongyi Qianwen LICENSE AGREEMENT(opens in new tab).

Modalities

Price

Free

Context

131K

Released

Sep 19, 2024

Knowledge Cutoff

Jun 2024

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Frequently asked questions

Qwen2.5 72B is the latest series of Qwen large language models. Qwen2.5 brings the following improvements upon Qwen2: - Significantly more knowledge and has greatly improved capabilities in coding and mathematics, thanks to our specialized expert models in these domains.

Yes. The pricing shown on this page for Qwen2.5 72B Instruct is zero, so you are not charged for prompt or completion tokens. Free endpoints are rate limited — see the rate limit docs.

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct has a 131,072 token context window.

Qwen3.8 Flash, Qwen3.8 27B, Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B and 47 more are other text models from Qwen.

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct was released on September 19, 2024. Its knowledge cutoff is June 30, 2024.