Data as of 2026-09-20.
Price spread

Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct

qwen/qwen2.5-vl-72b-instruct

Qwen (Alibaba)· 33K ctx
open weights quant: unknown

spread (output, p90 ÷ p10)

— too few providers

$0.800 – $6.88 · 3 providers · max÷min 8.6×

3 providers priced · 4 offerings

Cheapest / median / spread use providers that serve the model on their own capacity: first-party lab, hyperscaler, inference host.

Provider classes in the stats:
Blended $/M assumptions

blended = 90.9% input × [(1 − 70% cache) × input + 70% cache × cache-read] + 9.1% × output + cache writes (30% of uncached input) where a write price is published

A provider that publishes no cache price is blended with cache share 0 (all input at the input price) and labelled “no cache price published” — never penalised against identical in/out prices.

ProviderInputOutputCache rdBlended
NanoGPT
router / aggregator
$0.700$0.700$0.350$0.477
NovitaAI
inference host
$0.800$0.800—$0.800no cache price published
OpenRouter
router / aggregator
$0.80$1.00$0.40$0.56
Kilo Gateway
router / aggregator
$0.80$1.00$0.40$0.56
OVHcloud AI Endpoints
inference host
$1.01$1.01—$1.01no cache price published
Cortecs
router / aggregator
$1.01$1.01—$1.01no cache price published
Alibaba (China)CNfirst-party
first-party lab
$2.29$6.88—$2.71no cache price published

Data: models.dev (MIT), snapshot 2026-09-20. Prices are vendor-published; verify before purchase. Methodology.