Alternatives to Qwen2.5-72B

These tools sit near Qwen2.5-72B. Compare features and pricing before you switch.

OpenAI frontier flagship GPT-5.6 Sol: 1.05M context, effort up to max plus ultra, $5/$30 per 1M tokens.

15000000DR: 95AS: 95

Alibaba Qwen3.8 2.4T MoE with 95B active, 1M context, multimodal input. Coder $0.14/$0.80; 397B $0.29/$1.20.

20000000DR: 90AS: 95

Alibaba open CLI. Rechecked: Apache-2.0, 27,100 stars. ModelStudio Coding Plan / Token Plan / API; Qwen OAuth ended 2026-04-15.

400000DR: 60AS: 55