Qwen2.5-VL 7B Instruct pricing.
prices as of · 3 providers · 3 prices
Alibaba Cloud's Qwen2.5-VL 7B Instruct holds 131k tokens of context and reads images as well as text. Open weights, so anyone may host it, which is why the prices below differ so much.
Qwen2.5-VL 7B Instruct costs $0.35 in and $1.05 out per million tokens from Alibaba Cloud; the cheapest price we can explain is $1.58 at Alibaba Cloud (China), checked 16 Sept 2026.
Alibaba Cloud list price
$2.10/M tokens
$0.35 in · $1.05 out
read · 41% below the market median
Cheapest price we can explain
$1.58/M tokens
$0.29 in · $0.72 out · 25% under list
Alibaba Cloud (China)read
What it costs for your work
Alibaba Cloud list price
$0.273a month
cheapest we can explain · Alibaba Cloud (China)
$0.215a month
difference
$0.0578saved
A page is about 600 tokens in and 60 out, a support reply 200 in and 300 out, an email 150 in and 250 out. Nothing else is counted: no cache discount, no batch rate, no free tier.
Every provider selling Qwen2.5-VL 7B Instruct
Four groups, decided by the price and by what the provider publishes about it. Prices are per million tokens, and the share is that row against Alibaba Cloud's price.
The maker's list price
1 priceWhat the lab that trained the model charges on its own API.
Alibaba CloudThe price Alibaba Cloud charges for the model it trained. Every row below is measured against it.
$0.35 / $1.05in / out per M
1.00×of list price
Cheaper, and we know why
1 priceBelow list, with a published reason: hosting the open weights, a regional price list, credits, a stated discount.
- Alibaba Cloud (China)
Alibaba's China-region Model Studio, which prices the Qwen models below the international list. A region, not a deal.
$0.29 / $0.72in / out per M
0.75×of list price
Cheaper, and nobody says why
1 price · never rankedBelow list on a closed model with nothing to account for it. Shown, never ranked, never a pick.
FeatherlessWe could not read this provider's prices reliably, so the row is listed but never ranked.
33k context hereFeatherless ↗$0.40 / $0.80in / out per M
0.95×of list price
Frequently asked
- Who sells Qwen2.5-VL 7B Instruct cheapest?
- Alibaba Cloud (China), at $0.29 in and $0.72 out per million tokens, read on 16 Sept 2026. Alibaba's China-region Model Studio, which prices the Qwen models below the international list. A region, not a deal.
- Is Qwen2.5-VL 7B Instruct open weights?
- Yes. Alibaba Cloud publishes the weights, so anyone may host Qwen2.5-VL 7B Instruct, which is why 3 providers sell it and why their prices differ so much.
- How much context does Qwen2.5-VL 7B Instruct hold?
- 131,072 tokens in one call, which is about 131k, and it can call your own functions.
- How does Qwen2.5-VL 7B Instruct compare with the rest of the market?
- At $2.10 per million tokens, Alibaba Cloud's price is 41% below the $3.55 median across the 337 text models we track.