Qwen: Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct

Name: Alibaba Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct
Price: 0.25 USD
Availability: InStock
Author: Alibaba

alibaba/qwen2.5-vl-72b-instruct

Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct is the largest instruction-tuned model in Alibaba's open-weight Qwen2.5-VL vision-language family, released in early 2025. Qwen highlights recognition of common objects and analysis of text, charts, icons and layouts in images, visual localization with bounding boxes or points, structured extraction from invoices, forms and tables, visual agent use and understanding of videos over an hour long. It predates the Qwen3-VL line and suits workloads validated on it.

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Input price: $0.25USD / 1M tokens
Output price: $0.75USD / 1M tokens
Context window: 128K
Max output: 131.1K

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128K context131.1K max outputVision

Input$0.25/MOutput$0.75/M

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Specifications

Pricing

Input: $0.25 / 1M tokens
Output: $0.75 / 1M tokens

Context & modalities

Context window: 128,000 tokens
Max output: 131,072 tokens
Input: Text, image
Output: Text

Capabilities

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

Access

Provider: Alibaba
Model ID: alibaba/qwen2.5-vl-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

Model ID

alibaba/qwen2.5-vl-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 $SANDBASE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  --data-binary @- <<'SANDBASE_JSON'
{
  "model": "alibaba/qwen2.5-vl-72b-instruct",
  "messages": [
    {
      "role": "user",
      "content": "Hello"
    }
  ],
  "max_tokens": 2048
}
SANDBASE_JSON
)
printf '%s\n' "$result"

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Questions

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

Create a SandBase API key, then send requests with the model ID "alibaba/qwen2.5-vl-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 VL 72B Instruct cost?

$0.25 per 1M input tokens and $0.75 per 1M output tokens, billed per request from your SandBase balance. Discounts, when available, are shown in the pricing on this page.

What is the context window of Alibaba Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct?

128K tokens of context, with up to 131.1K output tokens per response.

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

Alibaba Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct supports vision (image input), 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 VL 72B Instruct and the other models in the catalog; you do not need to sign up with Alibaba separately.