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Why use Qwen2-72B on Microsoft Foundry?
Microsoft Foundry offers Qwen2-72B with pay-as-you-go pricing at $1.00/1M input tokens. Microsoft Foundry is a unified Azure platform-as-a-service offering for enterprise AI operations, model builders, and application development.
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Compare Qwen2-72B Across Providers
| Provider | Input (per 1M) | Output (per 1M) |
|---|---|---|
| Fireworks AI | $0.90 | $0.90 |
| DeepInfra | $0.45 | $0.65 |
| Together AI | $0.90 | $0.90 |
| Microsoft Foundry | $1.00 | $2.00 |
Pricing
| Type | Price (per 1M) |
|---|---|
| Input tokens | $1.00 |
| Output tokens | $2.00 |
Capabilities
About Qwen2-72B
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.