Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct vs qwen3-4b: API price and specs

qwen3-4b is 98% cheaper than Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct on input price.

qwen3-4b is 94% cheaper than Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct on output price.

qwen3-4b is 97% cheaper than Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct on a 1M-in / 200k-out workload.

qwen3-4b has a 104.8% larger context than Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct.

Field	Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct	qwen3-4b
Lowest input, per 1M	$0.50 +4900%	$0.01
Median input, per 1M	$1.01 +2095.7%	$0.046
Lowest output, per 1M	$0.50 +1566.7%	$0.03
Median output, per 1M	$1.01 +119.6%	$0.46
Lowest unit price	—	—
Cost of 1M in + 200k out	$0.60 +3650%	$0.016
Context	128K +51.2%	262K
Max output	115K	—
Providers	10	3 +70%
Regions	EU	—
Accepts	image, image/bmp, image/heic, image/jpeg, image/png, image/tiff, image/webp, text, video, video/mp4, video/quicktime, video/x-flv, video/x-matroska, video/x-ms-wmv, video/x-msvideo	text
Returns	text	text
Type	Text models	Text models
Free option	no	no
Cheapest provider	aihubmix	huggingface

Your own workload: how many tokens the model gets (input) and gives back (output) - for example, in a month. The "Cost" row of the table above is recalculated for these numbers, for each model.

Computed from current offers each time the page opens; the best value of a row is bold, the percent is how far behind the best.

Providers selling both

aihubmix, huggingface, trustedrouter

Frequently asked questions

Which is cheaper, Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct or qwen3-4b?

qwen3-4b is 98% cheaper than Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct on input price. qwen3-4b is 94% cheaper than Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct on output price. qwen3-4b is 97% cheaper than Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct on a 1M-in / 200k-out workload.

Which has the larger context, Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct or qwen3-4b?

Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: 128K tokens; qwen3-4b: 262K tokens.

Where can I use both Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct and qwen3-4b?

aihubmix, huggingface, trustedrouter