Qwen: Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct

qwen/qwen-2.5-vl-72b-instruct

Created Sep 18, 202432,768 context
$0.60/M input tokens$0.60/M output tokens$0.578/K input imgs

Qwen2.5 VL 72B is a multimodal LLM from the Qwen Team with the following key enhancements:

  • SoTA understanding of images of various resolution & ratio: Qwen2.5-VL achieves state-of-the-art performance on visual understanding benchmarks, including MathVista, DocVQA, RealWorldQA, MTVQA, etc.

  • Understanding videos of 20min+: Qwen2.5-VL can understand videos over 20 minutes for high-quality video-based question answering, dialog, content creation, etc.

  • Agent that can operate your mobiles, robots, etc.: with the abilities of complex reasoning and decision making, Qwen2.5-VL can be integrated with devices like mobile phones, robots, etc., for automatic operation based on visual environment and text instructions.

  • Multilingual Support: to serve global users, besides English and Chinese, Qwen2.5-VL now supports the understanding of texts in different languages inside images, including most European languages, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Vietnamese, etc.

For more details, see this blog post and GitHub repo.

Usage of this model is subject to Tongyi Qianwen LICENSE AGREEMENT.

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Sample code and API for Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct

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OpenRouter provides an OpenAI-compatible completion API to 300+ models & providers that you can call directly, or using the OpenAI SDK. Additionally, some third-party SDKs are available.

In the examples below, the OpenRouter-specific headers are optional. Setting them allows your app to appear on the OpenRouter leaderboards.

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
  base_url="https://openrouter.ai/api/v1",
  api_key="<OPENROUTER_API_KEY>",
)

completion = client.chat.completions.create(
  extra_headers={
    "HTTP-Referer": "<YOUR_SITE_URL>", # Optional. Site URL for rankings on openrouter.ai.
    "X-Title": "<YOUR_SITE_NAME>", # Optional. Site title for rankings on openrouter.ai.
  },
  extra_body={},
  model="qwen/qwen-2.5-vl-72b-instruct",
  messages=[
    {
      "role": "user",
      "content": [
        {
          "type": "text",
          "text": "What is in this image?"
        },
        {
          "type": "image_url",
          "image_url": {
            "url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Gfp-wisconsin-madison-the-nature-boardwalk.jpg/2560px-Gfp-wisconsin-madison-the-nature-boardwalk.jpg"
          }
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
)
print(completion.choices[0].message.content)

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