# Qwen2.5-VL (72B) Instruct vs Qwen3.7 Max

On provider list prices, Qwen2.5-VL (72B) Instruct costs $1.95 per million input tokens against $2.50 for Qwen3.7 Max: 1.3x apart. Output is $8 against $7.50.

## Specifications

| | Qwen2.5-VL (72B) Instruct | Qwen3.7 Max |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Lab | Qwen | Qwen |
| Access | Open weights | API only |
| Context window | 32K tokens | 1M tokens |
| List price, input | $1.95 / M tokens | $2.50 / M tokens |
| List price, output | $8 / M tokens | $7.50 / M tokens |
| Cached input | n/a | $0.50 / M tokens |
| License | Qwen license | Proprietary API |
| Fine-tunable | Yes | No |

Specifications and provider list prices from the Allocate catalog, checked 2026-09-12.

## What the numbers say

Take 1,000,000 requests a month at 1,200 input and 350 output tokens each. That workload costs $5,140 a month on Qwen2.5-VL (72B) Instruct and $5,625 on Qwen3.7 Max at list: a gap of $485.

Qwen3.7 Max 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 Qwen2.5-VL (72B) Instruct for

- The lower list price ($1.95 in / $8 out per M tokens)
- Open weights you can fine-tune and own

## Choose Qwen3.7 Max for

- The longer context window (1M vs 32K tokens)
- Published cached-input pricing ($0.50 per M tokens)

## Common questions

### Which is cheaper, Qwen2.5-VL (72B) Instruct or Qwen3.7 Max?

Qwen2.5-VL (72B) Instruct, on this workload shape. At list prices it is $1.95/$8 per million tokens in and out against $2.50/$7.50 for Qwen3.7 Max. Billed on Allocate: $2.09/$8.56 against $2.67/$8.03.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Qwen3.7 Max: 1,000,000 tokens (1M) against 32,768 (32K) for Qwen2.5-VL (72B) Instruct.

### Can I fine-tune Qwen2.5-VL (72B) Instruct or Qwen3.7 Max?

Qwen2.5-VL (72B) Instruct publishes open weights (Qwen license) and can be fine-tuned on your own data. Qwen3.7 Max is a closed model served over API; its weights are not available.

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