Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct vs Sonar Pro
API pricing, benchmark indices and specs — updated 19 October 2026.
perplexity · B · API-only
Input / 1M
$3.00
Output / 1M
$15.00
AA index
7.6
proprietary · 200K context
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct | Sonar Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Deployment | Open weights · also via API | API-only (closed weights) |
| Parameters | 72.7 B | n/a — API-only |
| Architecture | Qwen2ForCausalLM | n/a — API-only |
| Context length | 32,768 | 200,000 |
| Licence | other | Proprietary |
| Commercial use | Unknown | Per API terms |
| Languages | 1 | n/a — API-only |
| Downloads 30d | 232,348 | n/a — API-only |
| Downloads all time | 9.1 M | n/a — API-only |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | n/a — API-only |
| Gated | No | n/a — API-only |
| First seen on the Hub | 2024-09-16 | n/a — API-only |
| API input price / 1M tokens | $0.36 | $3.00 |
| API output price / 1M tokens | $0.40 | $15.00 |
| Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens | $0.76 | $18.00 |
| Cached input / 1M tokens | — | — |
| AA Intelligence Index | 7.7 | 7.6 |
| AA Coding Index | — | — |
| AA Agentic Index | — | — |
| Max output tokens | 16,384 | 8,000 |
| API providers | 1 | 1 |
| Tool calling | Yes | No |
| Reasoning mode | No | No |
API cost
Estimated cost of 1M input + 1M output tokens via OpenRouter
Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct
$0.76
Sonar Pro
$18.00
Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct is 23.7× cheaper at list price.
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct · fp16
171.4 GB / 24 GB