| Model | Score | Status | Released | Price in/out | Context | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct mature multilingual open-weight workhorse | 7.5 | GA | 2024-09-18 | $0.12 / $0.30 | 131K | Review → |
| Qwen2.5-32B-Instruct mature Apache-2.0 single-GPU workhorse | 7.2 | GA | 2024-09-18 | $0.10 / $0.25 | 131K | Review → |
Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct was Alibaba's open-weight flagship from late 2024 until the Qwen3 release in April 2025, and remains in heavy production use. It is a 72.7B-parameter dense decoder that competes with Llama 3.1 70B and, on several benchmarks, with Llama 3.1 405B. The buyer's sentence: a mature, dependable, broadly multilingual open weight with the largest community fine-tune ecosystem after Llama — keep it if you have it, but start new builds on Qwen3-32B.
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