# qwen2.5-72b-instruct

Calls to the model qwen2.5-72b-instruct on SambaNova Cloud stopped working on April 14, 2025.

On April 14, 2025, model qwen2.5-72b-instruct will stop working on SambaNova Cloud. Calls targeting this model after this date will fail.

## What to use instead

SambaNova recommends migrating to Meta-Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct or DeepSeek-V3-0324.

- API: SambaNova Cloud (api.sambanova.ai)
- Model: qwen2.5-72b-instruct
- Kind: Model retirement
- Takes effect: April 14, 2025
- Calls after that day: fail
- Calls it hits: `model qwen2.5-72b-instruct`
- Source: [Deprecations page](https://docs.sambanova.ai/docs/en/models/deprecations)
- Verified: October 26, 2026, against SambaNova Cloud's own pages
- Page: https://www.okapi.bot/models/sambanova-cloud/qwen2.5-72b-instruct/

Okapi finds the calls this change hits in your repo and opens the pull request with the fix: https://github.com/apps/okapi-agent