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.

QW◑ Deprecating Qwen2.5 72B 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 Does your code call Qwen2.5 72B? $ curl -fsSL https://llmstatus.ai/install.sh | bash Then mm status in any repo — it finds every model you use and flags the ones on a clock. No account, nothing uploaded. Get alerted before it retires → https://llmstatus.ai/sign-up