Model · Alibaba · Text
Qwen 2.5 72B
Alibaba's flagship open-weight model. Strong on coding, math, and Chinese-language tasks; competitive with Llama 3.3 70B on Western benchmarks.
- Modality
- Text
- License
- Qwen License (Open weights)
- Parameter size
- 72B
- Context window
- 131,072 tokens
- Released
- September 19, 2024
- Last verified
- May 10, 2026
- Runs locally
- Yes
Strengths
- Strong Chinese and multilingual performance
- Excellent coding and math performance for an open model
- 131k context window
Weaknesses
- License restricts commercial use at >100M MAU
- Needs multi-GPU or quantization for local use
Try it
| Where | Type | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Hugging Face | weights | Qwen License |
| OpenRouter | hosted-api | API key required |
| Ollama | local | ollama run qwen2.5:72b |
Version history
- Qwen2.5-Coder 32B Nov 2024
- Qwen 2.5 72B Sep 2024 Current
- Qwen 2.5 7B Sep 2024
Official sources
- Model card model
- Announcement announcement
Change log
- — Initial entry.
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