Qwen · Open weights
Qwen2.5 72B
Great multilingual support, strong at mathematics and coding, supports roleplay and chatbots.
- Tools
- Input
- Text
- Output
- Text
- Discovery tier
- Open weights
Pricing
USD per 1M tokens- Input
- $0.36
- Output
- $0.40
Reference prices as published by the model provider. API example
Specifications
- Context window
- 131.1K
- Max output
- 8.2K
- Average output (7 days)
- 166 tokens
- Longer than 16% of 468 models
Side by side
Qwen2.5 72B compared
Specifications, prices, speed and benchmark scores next to each other. Benchmarks below show every compared model too.
| Qwen2.5 72BQwenThis model | Qwen 3.8 27B DarkIdolQwenRemove | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Qwen | Qwen |
| Discovery tier | Open weights | Open weights |
| Added | Jul 3, 2025 | Oct 5, 2026 |
| Limits | ||
| Context window | 131.07K | 262.14KBest |
| Max output | 8.19K | 32.77KBest |
| Average output | 166 tokens | 554 tokens |
| Pricing, USD per 1M tokens | ||
| Input | $0.36 | $0.10Best |
| Output | $0.40Best | $0.60 |
| Cache read | — | $0.05 |
| Performance | ||
| Throughput | — | 40.9 tok/s |
| Time to first token | — | 2.2 s |
| Request success (24h) | — | 90.3% |
| Benchmark indexes | ||
| Intelligence Index | 7.7 | — |
| Math Index | 14.0 | — |
| Capabilities | ||
| Reasoning | No | Yes |
| Tools | Yes | Yes |
| Vision | No | Yes |
| Reasoning effort | — | — |
Public evaluations
Benchmarks
Independent evaluation results, with how each score ranks among the models in the Noumen catalog.
- Qwen2.5 72B
- Qwen 3.8 27B DarkIdol
Intelligence Index
- Qwen2.5 72B7.7
- Qwen 3.8 27B DarkIdol—
Qwen2.5 72B: Better than 11% of 326 scored models
Indexes
Math Index
Composite of the math evaluations
- Qwen2.5 72B: 14.0
- Qwen 3.8 27B DarkIdol: —
Reasoning and knowledge
Humanity’s Last Exam
Expert-level questions across academic fields
- Qwen2.5 72B: 3.6%
- Qwen 3.8 27B DarkIdol: —
GPQA Diamond
Graduate-level science questions
- Qwen2.5 72B: 49.1%
- Qwen 3.8 27B DarkIdol: —
MMLU-Pro
Multi-subject knowledge and reasoning
- Qwen2.5 72B: 72.0%
- Qwen 3.8 27B DarkIdol: —
IFBench
Following precise output instructions
- Qwen2.5 72B: 36.9%
- Qwen 3.8 27B DarkIdol: —
Coding
LiveCodeBench
Recent competitive programming problems
- Qwen2.5 72B: 27.6%
- Qwen 3.8 27B DarkIdol: —
Math
AIME 2025
Competition mathematics, 2025 problems
- Qwen2.5 72B: 14.0%
- Qwen 3.8 27B DarkIdol: —
AIME
Competition mathematics
- Qwen2.5 72B: 16.0%
- Qwen 3.8 27B DarkIdol: —
MATH-500
Competition math problems
- Qwen2.5 72B: 85.8%
- Qwen 3.8 27B DarkIdol: —
Legacy evaluations
Terminal-Bench Hard
Earlier terminal task suite
- Qwen2.5 72B: 4.5%
- Qwen 3.8 27B DarkIdol: —
τ²-Bench Telecom
Tool use in a customer-support simulation
- Qwen2.5 72B: 34.5%
- Qwen 3.8 27B DarkIdol: —
Scores from Artificial Analysis, updated Oct 26, 2026.
Developers
Use it through the API
Noumen’s API is OpenAI-compatible: any Chat Completions client works with a base URL and a key.
curl https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $NOUMEN_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "qwen/qwen-2.5-72b-instruct",
"messages": [{ "role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace." }]
}'import os
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(base_url="https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1", api_key=os.environ["NOUMEN_API_KEY"])
reply = client.chat.completions.create(
model="qwen/qwen-2.5-72b-instruct",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace."}],
)
print(reply.choices[0].message.content)Qwen
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