# qwen/qwen2.5-7b-instruct

Calls to the model qwen/qwen2.5-7b-instruct on Novita AI stopped working on May 22, 2026.

Calls to model qwen/qwen2.5-7b-instruct fail since May 22, 2026. Novita AI retired the model on that date, and any requests referencing it no longer succeed.

## What to use instead

Move to qwen/qwen3.5-27b or qwen/qwen3.6-27b, which are recommended by Novita.

- API: Novita AI (api.novita.ai)
- Model: qwen/qwen2.5-7b-instruct
- Released: September 19, 2024 (models.dev)
- Kind: Model retirement
- Takes effect: May 22, 2026
- Calls after that day: fail
- Calls it hits: `model qwen/qwen2.5-7b-instruct`
- Source: [Model notices](https://novita.ai/docs/llms-full.txt#deprecation-notice)
- Verified: November 6, 2026, against Novita AI's own pages
- Page: https://www.okapi.bot/models/novita-ai/qwen/qwen2.5-7b-instruct/

## Novita AI's words

> Deprecated model: qwen/qwen2.5-7b-instruct; Recommended alternatives: qwen/qwen3.5-27b, qwen/qwen3.6-27b

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