Qwen2-72B: GPU memory and hosting cost
Open weights · 72.71 billion parameters · 131,072-token context · licence other
No cloud sells this model per token: to use it you run it yourself, on GPU instances you rent.
Run it yourself
It needs 181.8 GB of GPU memory at bf16, the precision it ships in.
| Cloud | Cheapest instance that fits | GPUs | An hour | A month, around the clock |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alibaba Cloud | ecs.gn8v-2x.8xlarge | 2 × GPU H 96 GB | $14.38 | $10,500 |
| Google Cloud | a2-ultragpu-4g | 4 × A100 80 GB | $20.28 | $14,801 |
| AWS | p4d.24xlarge | 8 × A100 40 GB | $21.96 | $16,029 |
| Azure | Standard_ND96asr_v4 | 8 × A100 40 GB | $27.20 | $19,854 |
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List prices collected 5 October 2026, refreshed every three hours. No negotiated rates or taxes.