InferIndex · https://inferindex.dev/en/compare/qwen/qwen2.5-vl-72b-instruct/vs/swiss-ai/apertus-70b-instruct-2509
Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct costs from $0.70 per million tokens and Apertus-70B-Instruct-2509 from $1.18 (at a 3:1 input:output mix): the cheapest price for each; prices checked on and .
Verdict
At these prices, Apertus-70B-Instruct-2509 costs 1.7× as much as Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct per million tokens (at a 3:1 input:output mix).
Each model's lowest blended price, per 1M tokens, across every provider we track.
| Model | Lowest blended price, $ per 1M tokens. Green background: the most favourable value of each column. | Input price of the cheapest offer, per 1M tokens | Output price of the cheapest offer, per 1M tokens | The provider's published policy says the text you send is not used to train models. We only show what is published; we can't check it ourselves. | For 2,000 input tokens and 500 output tokens per request, 1,000 requests a day, at the cheapest offer for that workload. Change the workload above. | Offers | Providers | The maximum amount of text, counted in tokens, the model can take in and write in a single request. Past this limit, the request is refused or cut. | Observation |
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| Most expensive offer · $1.01. The highest blended price among comparable offers: one price per provider (its cheapest route), standard tier, current prices only. Priority tiers and prices converted from points are not counted. Green background: the most favourable value of each column., most favourable value of the column | $0.70, most favourable value of the column | $0.70, most favourable value of the column | $0.70 | $52.49, most favourable value of the columnat NanoGPT | 9 | 8, most favourable value of the column | 32k | Cheapest. Lowest blended price, $ per 1M tokens | |
| Most expensive offer · $1.35. The highest blended price among comparable offers: one price per provider (its cheapest route), standard tier, current prices only. Priority tiers and prices converted from points are not counted. | $0.875 | $2.08 | – | $83.63at Featherless | 2 | 2 | 33k |
Green background: the most favourable value of each column.
Prices as of Oct 31, 2026, 12:57 AM UTCSame rules as the API's /cheapest route. The monthly estimate uses the cheapest offer for that workload.