Qwen2.5-72B

Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct is the proven prior-gen dense 72B — widely fine-tuned and battle-tested, under the Qwen Licence rather than Apache 2.0.

Best for

• Mature, battle-tested dense 72B with broad ecosystem
• Stable dense alternative to newer MoE models
• Strong coding for its generation

How it compares — and the India angle

• Licence caveat: uses the Qwen Licence, NOT Apache 2.0 — a common directory mistake; the Qwen3.x generation is the clean Apache pick.
• Self-hostable in India, but newer Qwen3 models give better capability-per-GPU.
• Best as a stable baseline when you want a known, dense prior-gen flagship.