qwen-2.5-72b-instruct: benchmark scores, price and ranking

qwen-2.5-72b-instruct from Alibaba ranks #175 of 743 LLMs on the LLMs Tiger aggregate benchmark score (50.7), based on 1 benchmark results captured up to 2026-10-13.

Organisation: Alibaba
Type: Open-weight / local model
Open weights: Yes
Cheapest API price: $0.380 in / $0.400 out per million tokens (via novita, observed 2026-10-13T20:47Z)
Aggregate rank: #175 of 743 (score 50.7)

Across the 1 benchmark where at least ten models are scored, qwen-2.5-72b-instruct is in the top 10% on 0 and in the top half on 1.

Its cheapest listed input price, $0.380 per million tokens, is lower than that of 57% of the 427 models with a listed price.

qwen-2.5-72b-instruct benchmark results

qwen-2.5-72b-instruct benchmark scores, ranked against all models measured on each benchmark
Benchmark	Score	Rank	Source	Captured
Aider Code Editing	65.4%	#29 of 92	Aider Aider Code Editing leaderboard	2026-10-13

About qwen-2.5-72b-instruct

qwen-2.5-72b-instruct is an open-weight model that can run on your own hardware from Alibaba. The cheapest API listing we track charges $0.380 per million input tokens and $0.400 per million output tokens, through novita. We hold 1 benchmark result for it across 1 area, and none is in the top tenth of its board.

Where qwen-2.5-72b-instruct stands

On our aggregate score, qwen-2.5-72b-instruct is #175 of 743 ranked models, in the top quarter. Its score is 50.7; the scale is centred on 50, so it sits 0.7 points above the typical model. That beats 76% of the ranked field. Among the 74 ranked Alibaba models it is #10. The next one up is openrouter/qwen/qwen-2.5-coder-32b-instruct at 50.7. The next one down is Qwen3.7 Flash at 50.5.

qwen-2.5-72b-instruct, benchmark by benchmark

Aider Code Editing puts qwen-2.5-72b-instruct at 65.4%, #29 of 92. That beats 68% of the models tested, but 18.8 points short of Claude 3.5-Sonnet-20241022 (84.2%). The results either side are openrouter/qwen/qwen-2.5-coder-32b-instruct (65.4%) and yi-lightning (65.4%). It covers Aider official benchmark. The board median is 55.6%, so qwen-2.5-72b-instruct is 9.8 points above it. Source: Aider Aider Code Editing leaderboard, captured 2026-10-13.

Price and value

The median input price across the 427 priced models is $0.500 per million tokens, so qwen-2.5-72b-instruct costs less than the typical listing. Models that score within 1.5 points or better and cost less: Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct ($0.010, 49.5), DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (max) ($0.016, 53.1), GLM-5.3-Flash (max) ($0.026, 49.6). Similar scores cost more on GLM-4.7-FP8 ($0.400) and Devstral (2512) ($0.400).

Reading these numbers

The 1 score on this page comes from 1 source: Aider Aider Code Editing leaderboard (1). 1 of them come from an official leaderboard and 0 from datasets or third-party runs. With 1 results the aggregate rank can move a lot when one new score arrives.

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