In the title complex, [Cu(C6H4N5)2], the Cu(II) ion lies on an inversion center and is coordinated by two chelating 5-(pyridin-2-yl)tetra-zolide ligands in a slightly distorted square-planar coordination geometry. In the crystal, π-π stacking inter-actions, with centroid-centroid distances in the range 3.4301 (14)-3.4387 (13) Å, link the complex mol-ecules along [101].