Qwen Released February 1, 2025 Synced Apr 19, 2026

Qwen: Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct

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.

Vision

Why it stands out

Multimodal input (vision) extends it beyond text-only workflows.

What to watch

No tool-use capability is currently tracked, which limits its fit for agentic or function-calling patterns.

33K context window is shorter than the longest-context frontier models available today.

No benchmark score currently tracked — evaluate using task-specific testing alongside pricing and capability data.

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Qwen: Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct entered the tracked catalog

February 1, 2025

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.

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Recent changes

LaunchFeb 1

Qwen launched Qwen: Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct

PricingApr 17

Output price changed

$0.8/M → $0.75/M

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