Qwen2-72B
Newer version available: Qwen2.5-72B
- Family
- Qwen2
- Released
- 2024-06-05
- Context
- 128K
- Parameters
- 72.71B
- Architecture
- Decoder Only
- Specialization
- general
- Openness
- Open source
- License
- Apache 2.0OSI-approvedPermitted
- Weights
- Unknown
- Code
- Unknown
- Training
- Fine-tuned
Cheapest of 2 routes · Fireworks AI
About
Qwen2-72B is a cutting-edge large language model developed by Alibaba's Qwen team, featuring an impressive 72 billion parameters based on the Transformer architecture 12. It employs advanced enhancements such as SwiGLU activation, attention QKV bias, and group query attention to advance efficiency and precision 16. The model demonstrates strong performance across diverse benchmarks, excelling in language understanding, generation, coding, mathematics, and multilingual tasks, often surpassing other open-source models and challenging proprietary alternatives 34. With support for processing up to 128,000 tokens in context and proficiency in around 30 languages, it offers extensive input capabilities 15.
Providers(2)
Compare all 2Compare API pricing across 2 tracked provider routes for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.
| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Route |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fireworks AI | $0.900 | $0.900 | Serverless |
| Microsoft Foundry | $1.00 | $2.00 | Provisioned |
Deprecated provider routes(2)
| Provider | Status | Catalog ID |
|---|---|---|
| DeepInfra | DeprecatedRetired October 10, 2024 | Qwen/Qwen2-72B-Instruct |
| Together AI | DeprecatedRetired August 28, 2025 | — |
Available via routers & gateways(6)
LiteLLM
GatewayOpen-source Python SDK and proxy server that unifies 100+ LLM APIs behind a single OpenAI-compatible interface, with load balancing, cost tracking, and configurable failover.
OpenRouter
HybridUnified hybrid gateway to 400+ models from 60+ providers via a single OpenAI-compatible API, with optional auto-routing that selects the best model per prompt.
Portkey
GatewayProduction AI gateway routing to 1,600+ LLMs with failover, load balancing, semantic caching, and guardrails; Apache 2.0 core is fully self-hostable with the complete feature set.
Azure AI Foundry Model Router
RouterMicrosoft Azure AI Foundry's native model router that uses a trained ML model to route each prompt in real time to the optimal Azure-hosted model, with Balanced/Cost/Quality mode selection and automatic failover.
Helicone
GatewayObservability-first AI gateway with routing, caching, rate limiting, and request tracing; Apache 2.0 open-source core with a managed hosted tier for logging and analytics.
Kong AI Gateway
GatewayMulti-LLM AI gateway built on Kong Gateway 3.x, adding semantic routing, load balancing, guardrails, and MCP traffic analytics as plugins over Kong's existing API management platform.
Capabilities
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Benchmark scores(3)
Migration checks
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