Alibaba (Qwen) · Released Sep 19, 2024Qwen2.5 7B Instruct
Qwen instruction model for multilingual chat, reasoning, and tool use.
- Capability
- 118.5ECI · #141 of 148
- Input
- $0.175per 1M tokens
- Output
- $0.70per 1M tokens
- Context
- 131K8K max output
What it costs
- Input
- $0.175per million tokens
- Output
- $0.70per million tokens
- Blended (3:1)
- $0.306cheaper than 70% of priced models
Typical monthly bills
| Monthly usage | Estimated cost |
|---|---|
| Side project2M input + 0.5M output tokens | $0.70 |
| Team assistant25M input + 5M output tokens | $7.88 |
| Production app250M input + 50M output tokens | $78.75 |
Official Alibaba API price, as listed on models.dev.
Independent benchmarks
#141 of 148 scored models
The shaded band is Epoch AI’s confidence range (110.7–121.3); the tick marks the median scored model.
Scores from Epoch AI, run independently of Alibaba (Qwen).
The details
- Lab
- Alibaba (Qwen)
- Released
- Sep 19, 2024
- Knowledge cutoff
- Apr 2024
- Context window
- 131,072 tokens
- Max output
- 8,192 tokens
- Inputs
- Text
- Output
- Text
- Reasoning
- No
- Tool calling
- Yes
- Structured output
- No
- Weights
- Open weights
- API model ID
qwen2-5-7b-instructon Alibaba- Availability
- 1 API providerlisted on models.dev
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About Qwen2.5 7B Instruct
How much does Qwen2.5 7B Instruct cost?
Qwen2.5 7B Instruct costs $0.175 input / $0.70 output per million tokens (official Alibaba API price). At a 3:1 input-to-output mix that is $0.306 per million tokens, cheaper than 70% of the 360 priced models we track.
What is the context window of Qwen2.5 7B Instruct?
Qwen2.5 7B Instruct accepts up to 131,072 tokens per request and can write up to 8,192 tokens in one response.
How good is Qwen2.5 7B Instruct?
Epoch AI gives Qwen2.5 7B Instruct a Capabilities Index score of 118.5 (likely range 110.7–121.3), ranking it #141 of 148 models Epoch has scored. Epoch AI benchmark results: GPQA Diamond 35.5%, OTIS Mock AIME 2024–2025 2.5%.
Is Qwen2.5 7B Instruct open source?
Yes. Alibaba (Qwen) publishes the weights, so it can be downloaded and self-hosted.
What inputs does Qwen2.5 7B Instruct support?
Qwen2.5 7B Instruct accepts text and replies in text. It is not a dedicated reasoning model, supports tool calling.
When was Qwen2.5 7B Instruct released?
Alibaba (Qwen) released Qwen2.5 7B Instruct on Sep 19, 2024. Its training data runs to Apr 2024.
What are the best alternatives to Qwen2.5 7B Instruct?
The closest current models from other labs on capability, price and release date are Mistral Nemo (Mistral AI, ECI 118.7, $0.15 / $0.15), Claude Haiku 3 (Anthropic, ECI 118.4, $0.25 / $1.25), Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct (Meta, ECI 116.6, $0.152 / $0.167) and GPT-4o mini (OpenAI, ECI 126.6, $0.15 / $0.60).