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# Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS (Flash / Plus)

Alibaba (Qwen / Tongyi Lab), Qwen-Audio 3.0 family. Status: current. Type: speech and audio. Released: 2026-07-20.

## How to call it

| 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 | https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio/qwen-tts |
| Alibaba Cloud Model Studio | `qwen-audio-3.0-tts-plus` |  | https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio/models |

## Pricing

- Per 1M characters: $27.59
- Unit 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: 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/
- Last checked: 2026-09-29

## Specs

- Input: text, audio
- Output: audio
- Context window: not published
- Max output: not published
- Open weights: no
- Licence: proprietary

## Where it stands

- Newer speech and audio models in the registry since its release: 42. The 5 newest:
  - NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe (30B-A4B) (2026-10-28) https://postcutoff.com/m/nemotron-3-5-transcribe/
  - Hy-SimulMT-30B-A3B (2026-10-22) https://postcutoff.com/m/hy-simulmt-30b-a3b/
  - Eleven Realtime v1 Max / Mini (2026-10-20) https://postcutoff.com/m/eleven-realtime-v1-max/
  - Voxtral Mini Transcribe 3 (+ Mini Transcribe Realtime 3) (2026-10-20) https://postcutoff.com/m/voxtral-mini-transcribe-3/
  - Voxtral Small Transcribe 3 (2026-10-20) https://postcutoff.com/m/voxtral-small-transcribe-3/
- Closed weights; access is hosted only.

## What stands out

- #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). Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.23938
- 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. Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.23938

## 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.

Alibaba's hosted flagship TTS from July 2026.

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/

Model page: https://postcutoff.com/m/qwen-audio-3-0-tts/