Head to head
QW vs QW For light moderate heavy
Verdict · measured basis
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct costs $0.0002 per solved task against
Qwen3.5-Flash at $0.0015 — ▼ 9.1x cheaper .
Over 200 tasks that is $0.26 a month.
On output token price alone Qwen3.5-Flash looks 1.5x cheaper. The ranking reverses once you divide by pass rate — the cheaper tokens do not win the task.
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Verified pricing, pass rate and cost per solved task for Qwen3.5-Flash and Qwen2.5 72B Instruct Figure Qwen3.5-Flash Qwen2.5 72B Instruct Input $/Mtok $0.065 $0.36 Output $/Mtok $0.26 $0.4 Cached input $/Mtok $0.065 $0.36 Pass rate 89% 53% Cost per solved task $0.0015 measured $0.0002 measured Cost per month $0.29 $0.03
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Monthly cost against tasks per month Log-log lines for Qwen2.5 72B Instruct (measured, $0.0002 per solved task), Qwen3.5-Flash (measured, $0.0015 per solved task) from 10 to 100,000 tasks a month. Marker at 200 tasks. 10 100 1k 10k 100k $0.001 $0.01 $0.1 $1 $10 $100 TASKS / MONTH (log) → 200 tasks Qwen2.5 72B Instruct · MEASURED · $0.0002 per solved task $0.03 Qwen2.5 72B Instruct MEASURED Qwen3.5-Flash · MEASURED · $0.0015 per solved task $0.29 Qwen3.5-Flash MEASURED Monthly cost against tasks per month Log-log lines for Qwen2.5 72B Instruct (measured, $0.0002 per solved task), Qwen3.5-Flash (measured, $0.0015 per solved task) from 10 to 100,000 tasks a month. Marker at 200 tasks. 10 100 1k 10k 100k $0.001 $0.01 $0.1 $1 $10 $100 TASKS / MONTH (log) → 200 tasks Qwen2.5 72B Instruct · MEASURED · $0.0002 per solved task $0.03 Qwen3.5-Flash · MEASURED · $0.0015 per solved task $0.29 — Qwen2.5 72B Instruct · MEASURED — Qwen3.5-Flash · MEASURED Solid measured · dashed modeled · dotted stale. The gap is the verdict.
Solvency Bench (solvency.dev) — first-party measurement · verified 2026-08-26 · prices from each provider's pricing page; measured rows ignore the tier · Methodology · All models at these settings