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Qwen2.5 7B Instruct

Qwen instruction model for multilingual chat, reasoning, and tool use

Model facts

Context window
131K tokens
Maximum output
8K tokens
Cheapest paid input
$0.07 per 1M tokens
Cheapest paid output
$0.07 per 1M tokens
Open weights
yes
Providers
4

Capabilities and modalities

tool calling, structured output, temperature control, open weights, text.

Local hardware estimate

At 4K context: Q4_K_M 5.6 GiB, Q8_0 9.2 GiB, F16 15.8 GiB working memory.

Parameters
7.6 billion
Architecture
qwen2
Model license
apache-2.0

Planning estimate adapted from the MIT-licensed whichllm estimator using metadata from Hugging Face; not a vendor minimum requirement.

Observed price history

  • 2026-08-24: $0.07 input / $0.07 output per 1M tokens

API providers

  • NovitaAI — model id qwen/qwen2.5-7b-instruct; $0.07 input / $0.07 output per 1M tokens; provider documentation
  • Alibaba (China) — model id qwen2-5-7b-instruct; $0.072 input / $0.144 output per 1M tokens; provider documentation
  • OpenRouter — model id qwen/qwen-2.5-7b-instruct; $0.1 input / $0.2 output per 1M tokens; provider documentation
  • Alibaba — model id qwen2-5-7b-instruct; $0.175 input / $0.7 output per 1M tokens; provider documentation