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Qwen: Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct

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

↓ runs free on your own hardware

Qwen2.5-VL is proficient in recognizing common objects such as flowers, birds, fish, and insects. It is also highly capable of analyzing texts, charts, icons, graphics, and layouts within images.

specs & pricing
Type
text
Provider
qwen
Model ID
qwen/qwen2.5-vl-72b-instruct
Capabilities
vision
Context window
128K tokens
Self-hostable
Yes — runs on your own GPU
Input price
$0.88 / 1M tokens
Output price
$1.10 / 1M tokens

Cloud price is billed from prepaid credits when a request fails over to the cloud. Open-weight models run free on GPUs you own — the gateway routes to your nodes first.

What it costs to run

cloud · 1M in + 1M out

$1.98

$0.88 for a million input tokens plus $1.10 for a million output tokens, billed from credits only when a request fails over to the cloud.

your hardware

$0 / token

Served from a workstation or on-prem server you own, there is no per-token fee — the marginal cost is power.

AI cost calculator →GPU power cost →

Run it on your own hardware

Estimated GPU memory for Qwen: Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct (72B parameters), for the weights alone — add room for the context cache.

Q4_K_M
~41.7 GBfits a 48 GB card
Q8_0
~71.8 GBfits a 80 GB card
FP16 / BF16
~134.9 GBmulti-GPU or large unified memory

Install the agent on the machine and it dials out to the gateway over a single WebSocket — no port forwarding or inbound firewall rules. Requests for this model go to your node first and fail over to the cloud only when it can't serve.

VRAM calculator →Which GPU do I need? →

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Call Qwen: Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct through one OpenAI-compatible endpoint.

Serve it from hardware you own, with cloud failover when your nodes are busy or offline.

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no credit card · 2 nodes free · openai-compatible

Frequently asked questions

What is the context window of Qwen: Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct?
Qwen: Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct accepts up to 128,000 tokens (128K) of context per request.
How much does Qwen: Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct cost per million tokens?
Through Wide Area Intelligence, Qwen: Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct costs $0.88 per 1M input tokens and $1.10 per 1M output tokens when served from the cloud, billed from prepaid credits. A workload of 1M input plus 1M output tokens costs $1.98.
Can I run Qwen: Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct on my own hardware?
Yes — Qwen: Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct is an open-weight model you can run on a workstation or on-prem server you own. At Q4_K_M it needs roughly 41.7 GB of GPU memory, plus room for the context cache — it fits a single 48 GB card. Wide Area Intelligence routes requests to your own nodes first and fails over to the cloud only when they can't serve.

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