Qwen2.5 32B Instruct
Qwen2.5 32B Instruct is a language model from Qwen released on Sep 1, 2024. It reads text and writes text, with a 131K token context window and up to 8K tokens per reply.
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It costs $0.70 per million input tokens and $2.80 per million output tokens.
It supports tool calling, and its weights are open, so you can host it yourself.
2 providers serve it, including Alibaba (China). The lowest input price is $0.287 per million tokens at Alibaba (China).
- Modalities
- In / out price
- $0.70 / $2.80 per 1M
- Context
- 131K
- Max output
- 8K
- Released
- Sep 1, 2024
- Knowledge cutoff
- Apr 2024
- Tool calling
- Structured output
- Reasoning
- Prompt caching
- Open weights
- Free to use
Qwen2.5 32B Instruct pricing
USD, as listed on Oct 15, 2026. Most bills are input heavy, so the cached input rate matters as much as the headline price.
| Input | $0.70 / 1M tokens | |
|---|---|---|
| Output | $2.80 / 1M tokens |
Qwen2.5 32B Instruct providers
2 providers serve it, including Alibaba (China). The lowest input price is $0.287 per million tokens at Alibaba (China). Each host sets its own price and limits, so the cheapest one is not always the one with the longest context.
| Provider | Input /M | Output /M | Cache read /M | Context | Max output |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alibaba First party | $0.70 | $2.80 | – | 131K | 8K |
| Alibaba (China) | $0.287 | $0.861 | – | 131K | 8K |
What Qwen2.5 32B Instruct costs per month
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Supported request parameters
What you can set when you call Qwen2.5 32B Instruct through an OpenAI compatible API.
- Tools
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Qwen2.5 32B Instruct questions
How much does the Qwen2.5 32B Instruct API cost?
$0.70 per million input tokens and $2.80 per million output tokens. The estimator on this page turns that into a monthly bill for your own workload.
What is the context window of Qwen2.5 32B Instruct?
131,072 tokens of input, and it can write up to 8,192 tokens in one reply. As a rough guide, a million tokens is around 750,000 English words.
Which providers serve Qwen2.5 32B Instruct?
2 providers serve it, including Alibaba (China). The lowest input price is $0.287 per million tokens at Alibaba (China). Prices differ by host, so the Providers table on this page lists each one with its input and output price.
Does Qwen2.5 32B Instruct support tool calling?
Yes. It accepts tool definitions, which is what an agent needs to call your APIs.
Is Qwen2.5 32B Instruct open source?
Its weights are published, so you can run it on your own hardware or a cloud of your choice. Read the license before commercial use.
When was Qwen2.5 32B Instruct released?
Sep 1, 2024, with training data up to Apr 2024.
Catalog data from models.dev (MIT licensed), refreshed daily, last on Oct 15, 2026. The summary is written from these facts.
Building on Qwen2.5 32B Instruct?
I test your real tasks on it and the two closest alternatives, then ship the agent on whichever wins on cost and accuracy.
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