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Qwen2 VL 72B Instruct vs Qwen3.8 Max

Compare Qwen2 VL 72B Instruct from Qwen and Qwen3.8 Max from Qwen on key metrics including benchmarks, price, context length, and other model features. Access both models and hundreds of others through the AIHubMix API.

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Qwen2 VL 72B Instruct
Qwen · text, image, video → text

The model provider is the Sophnet platform. Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct is the latest iteration in the Qwen2-VL series launched by Alibaba Cloud, representing nearly a year of innovative achievements. This model has 72 billion parameters and can understand images of various resolutions and aspect ratios. Additionally, it supports video understanding of over 20 minutes, enabling high-quality video question answering, dialogue, and content creation, along with complex reasoning and decision-making capabilities. - State-of-the-art image understanding: capable of processing images of various resolutions and aspect ratios, performing excellently across multiple visual understanding benchmarks. - Long video understanding: supports video comprehension exceeding 20 minutes, enabling high-quality video Q&A, dialogues, and content creation. - Agent operation capability: equipped with complex reasoning and decision-making abilities, it can integrate with devices such as phones and robots to perform automated operations based on visual environments and textual instructions. - Multilingual support: in addition to English and Chinese, it supports understanding text in images in multiple languages, including most European languages, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Vietnamese, and more. - Supports a maximum context length of 128K tokens, offering powerful processing capabilities.

Input$2.18 /M
Output$6.54 /M
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Qwen3.8 Max
Qwen · text, image, video → text

Qwen3.8-Max is Alibaba Cloud Tongyi Qianwen's next-generation flagship large language model, featuring a mixture-of-experts (MoE) architecture with 2.4 trillion parameters. It achieves another breakthrough in encoding depth, enabling it to handle more complex engineering-grade projects and long-term autonomous development; collaborative agent capabilities are significantly enhanced, performing more confidently in multi-tool orchestration and end-to-end delivery; visual understanding is comprehensively improved, with more sensitive and accurate chart reasoning, document parsing, and multimodal perception. Continuing the 1-million-context window, reasoning modes, and a complete tool ecosystem, it continues to evolve at a higher level of intelligence.

Input$1.69 /M
Output$5.07 /M
Cache read$0.169 /M

Pricing & Specifications

Prices are per million tokens. Time to First Token and throughput are rolling averages measured on AIHubMix.

Qwen2 VL 72B Instruct
Qwen3.8 Max
Input /M
$2.18
$1.69
Output /M
$6.54
$5.07
Cache read /M
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$0.169
Context length
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1,000,000
Max output
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131,072
Time to First Token
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12.5 s
Throughput
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28.4 tok/s
Modalities
textimagevideo
textimagevideo
Supported Parameters
toolsfunction callingstructured outputsweblong contextthinking
API Formats
Released
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August 3, 2026

Promotional prices show the discounted rate; see each model page for promotion windows.

Activity Past 30 Days

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Performance Past 3 Days

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LMArena Benchmarks

LMArena ratings by capability (Bradley-Terry, commonly called Elo). Higher is better.

Vision
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1060114012201300
Overall
10851301

Source: LMArena (arena.ai) leaderboard, imported by AIHubMix. Models without published ratings are omitted per chart.

Cost calculator

Estimate your monthly bill for the same workload on each model.

Qwen3.8 Max
$177 /mo
Qwen2 VL 72B Instruct
$229 /mo

Monthly = daily × 30. Discounted rates applied where a promotion is active.

FAQ

Which is cheaper: Qwen2 VL 72B Instruct, Qwen3.8 Max?

Qwen3.8 Max: $5.07/M output tokens; Qwen2 VL 72B Instruct: $6.54/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.

What inputs and capabilities does each model support?

Qwen2 VL 72B Instruct accepts text, image and video input; Qwen3.8 Max accepts text, image and video input and supports tool calling, function calling, structured outputs, web search, long context and thinking.

Can I call Qwen2 VL 72B Instruct and Qwen3.8 Max with the same API key?

Yes. AIHubMix serves every model on this page behind one OpenAI-compatible endpoint, so switching between them is a one-line change to the model field — no second account, key or SDK.

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