Qwen2.5 72B Instruct

Name: Alibaba Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
Price: 0.36 USD
Availability: InStock
Author: Alibaba

alibaba/qwen-2.5-72b-instruct

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...

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Input price: $0.36USD / 1M tokens
Output price: $0.40USD / 1M tokens
Context window: N/A
Max output: 16.4K

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Pricing

Input: $0.36 / 1M tokens
Output: $0.40 / 1M tokens

Context & modalities

Max output: 16,384 tokens
Input: Text
Output: Text

Capabilities

Chat: Supported
Vision: Not supported
Reasoning: Not supported
Structured output: Supported
Function calling: Supported
Audio input: Not supported

Access

Provider: Alibaba
Model ID: alibaba/qwen-2.5-72b-instruct
Execution: sync
Base URL: https://api.sandbase.ai
API: Chat Completions API
Endpoint: /v1/chat/completions

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Chat Completions API endpoint

https://api.sandbase.ai/v1/chat/completions

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alibaba/qwen-2.5-72b-instruct

# The quoted heredoc keeps Unicode and shell metacharacters unchanged.
result=$(curl --fail-with-body --silent \
  -X POST "https://api.sandbase.ai/v1/chat/completions" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SANDBASE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  --data-binary @- <<'SANDBASE_JSON'
{
  "model": "alibaba/qwen-2.5-72b-instruct",
  "messages": [
    {
      "role": "user",
      "content": "Hello"
    }
  ],
  "max_tokens": 2048
}
SANDBASE_JSON
)
printf '%s\n' "$result"

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How do I call Alibaba Qwen2.5 72B Instruct through SandBase?

Create a SandBase API key, then send requests with the model ID "alibaba/qwen-2.5-72b-instruct" to Chat Completions API (/v1/chat/completions) at https://api.sandbase.ai. The request examples on this page show the exact payload.

How much does Alibaba Qwen2.5 72B Instruct cost?

$0.36 per 1M input tokens and $0.40 per 1M output tokens, billed per request from your SandBase balance. Discounts, when available, are shown in the pricing on this page.

Which features does Alibaba Qwen2.5 72B Instruct support?

Alibaba Qwen2.5 72B Instruct supports function calling, structured output. See Specifications above for the full list.

Do I need a separate Alibaba account?

No. One SandBase API key and balance gives you access to Alibaba Qwen2.5 72B Instruct and the other models in the catalog; you do not need to sign up with Alibaba separately.