# Qwen2-VL (72B) Instruct vs Qwen QwQ-32B

On provider list prices, Qwen2-VL (72B) Instruct costs $1.20 per million input tokens against $1.20 for Qwen QwQ-32B: effectively level. Output is $1.20 against $1.20. On Allocate both bill at list plus the 7% transaction fee.

## Specifications

| | Qwen2-VL (72B) Instruct | Qwen QwQ-32B |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Lab | Qwen | Qwen |
| Access | Open weights | Open weights |
| Context window | 32K tokens | 128K tokens |
| List price, input | $1.20 / M tokens | $1.20 / M tokens |
| List price, output | $1.20 / M tokens | $1.20 / M tokens |
| Cached input | n/a | n/a |
| License | Qwen license | Qwen license |
| Fine-tunable | Yes | 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 $1,860 a month on Qwen2-VL (72B) Instruct and $1,860 on Qwen QwQ-32B at list: a gap of $0.

Qwen QwQ-32B reads 128K tokens per request against 32K for Qwen2-VL (72B) Instruct, 4.0x the window. That decides which one can take whole documents without splitting them.

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

- Training toward a model you own

## Choose Qwen QwQ-32B for

- The longer context window (128K vs 32K tokens)

## Common questions

### Which is cheaper, Qwen2-VL (72B) Instruct or Qwen QwQ-32B?

Qwen2-VL (72B) Instruct, on this workload shape. At list prices it is $1.20/$1.20 per million tokens in and out against $1.20/$1.20 for Qwen QwQ-32B. Billed on Allocate: $1.28/$1.28 against $1.28/$1.28, list plus 7%.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Qwen QwQ-32B: 131,072 tokens (128K) against 32,768 (32K) for Qwen2-VL (72B) Instruct.

### Can I fine-tune Qwen2-VL (72B) Instruct or Qwen QwQ-32B?

Both publish open weights (Qwen2-VL (72B) Instruct: Qwen license; Qwen QwQ-32B: Qwen license), so both can be fine-tuned. On Allocate the trained weights stay inside your boundary and belong to you.

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