# Gemini 3.6 Flash vs Qwen2.5-VL (72B) Instruct

On provider list prices, Gemini 3.6 Flash costs $1.50 per million input tokens against $1.95 for Qwen2.5-VL (72B) Instruct: 1.3x apart. Output is $7.50 against $8 (1.1x). On Allocate both bill at list plus the 7% transaction fee.

## Specifications

| | Gemini 3.6 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 | $7.50 / 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 2026-07-21. 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 $4,425 a month on Gemini 3.6 Flash and $5,140 on Qwen2.5-VL (72B) Instruct at list: a gap of $715, or 1.2x.

Gemini 3.6 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 3.6 Flash for

- The lower list price ($1.50 in / $7.50 out per M tokens)
- The longer context window (1M vs 32K tokens)

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

- Open weights you can fine-tune and own

## Common questions

### Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.6 Flash or Qwen2.5-VL (72B) Instruct?

Gemini 3.6 Flash, on this workload shape. At list prices it is $1.50/$7.50 per million tokens in and out against $1.95/$8 for Qwen2.5-VL (72B) Instruct. Billed on Allocate: $1.60/$8.03 against $2.09/$8.56, list plus 7%.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 1,000,000 tokens (1M) against 32,768 (32K) for Qwen2.5-VL (72B) Instruct.

### Can I fine-tune Gemini 3.6 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 3.6 Flash is a closed model served over API; its weights are not available.

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