Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS (Flash / Plus)
Alibaba’s hosted flagship TTS from July 2026.
Model idqwen-audio-3.0-tts-flash
Price$27.59 per 1M characters
Checked29 September 2026
Where it stands
42newer speech and audio models since its release
- NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe (30B-A4B)28 Oct 2026
- Hy-SimulMT-30B-A3B22 Oct 2026
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- Voxtral Small Transcribe 320 Oct 2026
The 5 newest are listed. All speech and audio models
- Weights
- Closed weights; access is hosted only.
How to call it
2 ways to use Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS (Flash / Plus), with the model id each provider expects.
| Provider | Model id | Endpoint | Docs |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alibaba Cloud Model Studio (Singapore / Beijing) | qwen-audio-3.0-tts-flash |
https://{WorkspaceId}.ap-southeast-1.maas.aliyuncs.com/api/v1/services/audio/tts/SpeechSynthesizer |
alibabacloud.com |
| Alibaba Cloud Model Studio | qwen-audio-3.0-tts-plus |
alibabacloud.com |
Pricing
| Per 1M characters | $27.59 |
|---|
As published: “USD per 1M characters for the Plus tier at launch (MarkTechPost). Alibaba cut TTS prices about 70% with the 3.1 generation (2026-09-23), so check current pricing”.
Source: marktechpost.com, checked 29 September 2026.
Specs
- Input
- Text and audio
- Output
- Audio
- Context window
- Not published
- Max output
- Not published
- Open weights
- No
- Licence
- Proprietary
- Released
- 20 July 2026
- Status
- Current
- Type
- Speech and audio
What stands out
What its maker marketed at launch, and what people found later, each with its source.
#1 on Artificial Analysis TTS arena at launch
Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS-Plus ranked first on the Artificial Analysis Text-to-Speech leaderboard in July 2026 (Elo ~1,236-1,237, just ahead of Speechify Simba 3.2 at ~1,234). It was later overtaken (Eleven v4 was #1 by late Sept 2026).
Controllable, robust multilingual synthesis
12.5 Hz speech tokenizer plus a five-stage LM + flow-matching training recipe; natural-language instructions and inline tags; 16 languages and 20 Chinese dialect regions; one-pass long-form output up to 3 minutes; voice cloning works from noisy or reverberant references.
Notes
Flash tier targets real-time use (~300 ms first packet, press); Plus targets quality (throughput ~16 chars/s, press). Languages: ar, zh, en, fr, de, id, it, ja, ko, ms, pt, ru, es, tl, th, vi. Companion qwen-audio-3.0-realtime-plus/-flash and qwen-audio-3.0-asr-flash also exist. Superseded by Qwen-Audio-3.1 (2026-09-23), but as of 2026-09-29 the Model Studio catalog still lists qwen-audio-3.0-tts-plus as its TTS model, and no 3.1 TTS id is published in the international docs. By 2026-10-25 the 3.1 ids were published (qwen-audio-3.1-tts-plus/-flash, see qwen-audio-3-1-tts-plus); current 3.0 list prices: Plus $0.20 / Flash $0.15 per 10,000 characters (Singapore), per https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio/model-pricing.
Sources: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.23938 · https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio/qwen-tts · https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio/models · https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/07/20/alibabas-tongyi-lab-releases-qwen-audio-3-0-tts-a-hosted-text-to-speech-model-in-flash-and-plus-tiers-across-16-languages/