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Qwen2.5 72B deprecated → Qwen3 Max

Alibaba has deprecated its Qwen2.5 72B model, qwen2.5-72b-instruct, which offered a 131k context window, 8k max output, and pricing of $0.115 per 1M input tokens and $0.287 per 1M output tokens, according to a provider announcement on Alibaba Cloud Model Studio. The deprecation notice, surfaced by the model-tracking service llmstatus.ai, points developers to Qwen3 Max as the replacement and flags the affected aliases qwen2.5-72b-instruct, qwen2-5-72b-instruct, qwen-plus, alibaba/qwen2-5-72b-instruct, and alibaba/qwen-plus.

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Qwen2.5 72B deprecated → Qwen3 Max
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QW◑ Deprecating

Alibaba (Qwen) · qwen2.5-72b-instruct Qwen2.5text131k context8k max out$0.115 / $0.287 per 1M

also matches:

`qwen2.5-72b-instruct`` qwen2-5-72b-instruct``qwen-plus`` alibaba/qwen2-5-72b-instruct``alibaba/qwen-plus`
[provider announcement →](https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio/models)

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source & further reading
llmstatus.ai — original article DeepSeek V3 deprecated → DeepSeek V4 Pro New model: Qwen3.7 Flash (Alibaba (Qwen)) New model: Kimi K3 (Alibaba (Qwen))
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