{"slug": "qwen2-5-72b-deprecated-qwen3-max", "title": "Qwen2.5 72B deprecated → Qwen3 Max", "summary": "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.", "body_md": "QW◑ Deprecating\n\n# Qwen2.5 72B\n\nAlibaba (Qwen) · qwen2.5-72b-instruct\n\nQwen2.5text131k context8k max out$0.115 / $0.287 per 1M\n\nalso matches: \n\n`qwen2.5-72b-instruct`` qwen2-5-72b-instruct``qwen-plus`` alibaba/qwen2-5-72b-instruct``alibaba/qwen-plus`\n[provider announcement →](https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio/models)\n\nDoes your code call Qwen2.5 72B?\n\n$ curl -fsSL https://llmstatus.ai/install.sh | bash\n\nThen `mm status` in any repo — it finds every model you use and flags the ones on a clock. No account, nothing uploaded.\n\n[Get alerted before it retires →](https://llmstatus.ai/sign-up)", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/qwen2-5-72b-deprecated-qwen3-max", "canonical_source": "https://llmstatus.ai/m/alibaba/alibaba/qwen2-5-72b", "published_at": "2026-10-10 18:00:38+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-10-10 18:18:26.888226+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["large-language-models", "ai-products", "developer-tools"], "entities": ["Alibaba", "Qwen", "Qwen2.5 72B", "qwen2.5-72b-instruct", "Qwen3 Max", "Alibaba Cloud Model Studio", "llmstatus.ai"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/qwen2-5-72b-deprecated-qwen3-max", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/qwen2-5-72b-deprecated-qwen3-max.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/qwen2-5-72b-deprecated-qwen3-max.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/qwen2-5-72b-deprecated-qwen3-max.jsonld"}}