# Gemini 3.5 Flash vs Qwen2.5-VL (72B) Instruct

On provider list prices, Qwen2.5-VL (72B) Instruct costs $1.95 per million input tokens against $1.50 for Gemini 3.5 Flash: effectively level. Output is $8 against $9 (1.1x). On Allocate both bill at list plus the 7% transaction fee.

## Specifications

| | Gemini 3.5 Flash | Qwen2.5-VL (72B) Instruct |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Lab | Google | Qwen |
| Access | API only | Open weights |
| Context window | 1M tokens | 32K tokens |
| List price, input | $1.50 / M tokens | $1.95 / M tokens |
| List price, output | $9 / M tokens | $8 / M tokens |
| Cached input | n/a | n/a |
| License | Proprietary API | Qwen license |
| Fine-tunable | No | Yes |

Specifications and provider list prices from the Allocate catalog, checked 2026-07-08. Billed price is list plus the 7% transaction fee.

## What the numbers say

Take 1,000,000 requests a month at 1,200 input and 350 output tokens each. That workload costs $4,950 a month on Gemini 3.5 Flash and $5,140 on Qwen2.5-VL (72B) Instruct at list: a gap of $190.

Gemini 3.5 Flash reads 1M tokens per request against 32K for Qwen2.5-VL (72B) Instruct, 30.5x the window. That decides which one can take whole documents without splitting them.

## Choose Gemini 3.5 Flash for

- High-volume support and triage
- Document extraction at scale
- Vision and OCR pipelines

## Choose Qwen2.5-VL (72B) Instruct for

- Open weights you can fine-tune and own

## Common questions

### Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.5 Flash or Qwen2.5-VL (72B) Instruct?

Gemini 3.5 Flash, on this workload shape. At list prices it is $1.50/$9 per million tokens in and out against $1.95/$8 for Qwen2.5-VL (72B) Instruct. Billed on Allocate: $1.60/$9.63 against $2.09/$8.56, list plus 7%.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 1,000,000 tokens (1M) against 32,768 (32K) for Qwen2.5-VL (72B) Instruct.

### Can I fine-tune Gemini 3.5 Flash or Qwen2.5-VL (72B) Instruct?

Qwen2.5-VL (72B) Instruct publishes open weights (Qwen license) and can be fine-tuned on your own data. Gemini 3.5 Flash is a closed model served over API; its weights are not available.

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