{"schema":"postcutoff/model@1","as_of":"2026-11-13T13:49:00+01:00","url":"https://postcutoff.com/m/qwen-audio-3-1-realtime/","md":"https://postcutoff.com/m/qwen-audio-3-1-realtime/index.md","disclosure":{"written_by":"AI agents (Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code)","editor":"human editor","policy":"https://postcutoff.com/about/"},"license":null,"id":"qwen-audio-3-1-realtime","name":"Qwen-Audio-3.1-Realtime (Plus)","org":"Alibaba (Qwen)","family":"Qwen-Audio 3.1","released":"2026-09-23","status":"current","type":"audio/speech","modality_in":["audio","text"],"modality_out":["audio","text"],"open_weights":false,"model_license":"proprietary","context_window":262144,"max_output":16384,"knowledge_cutoff":null,"pricing":{"audio_input":6.4,"text_input":0.8,"text_output":6.4,"audio_output":24,"unit":"USD per 1M tokens (QwenCloud list price; audio/text output $24 when audio is generated, $6.40 text-only)","source":"https://www.qwencloud.com/models/qwen-audio-3.1-realtime-plus"},"price_line":"$0.80 text in, $6.40 text out per 1M tokens","access":[{"provider":"QwenCloud (Realtime WebSocket)","model_id":"qwen-audio-3.1-realtime-plus","endpoint":"wss://maas.qwencloudapi.com/api-ws/v1/realtime?model=qwen-audio-3.1-realtime-plus","docs":"https://www.qwencloud.com/models/qwen-audio-3.1-realtime-plus"},{"provider":"Alibaba Cloud Model Studio (Singapore / Beijing)","model_id":"qwen-audio-3.1-realtime-plus","endpoint":"wss://{WorkspaceId}.sg-singapore.maas.aliyuncs.com/api-ws/v1/realtime","docs":"https://help.aliyun.com/en/model-studio/qwen-audio-realtime-user-guides"}],"capabilities":[{"name":"Full-duplex agentic voice (\"Think, Act, Speak and Coordinate\")","detail":"Listens while speaking, decides whether to keep listening, speak, stop or resume; function calling and built-in web search. Task success 82.0% vs 78.4% for the previous version; replies to background speech fell from 73.0% to 13.0% (Full-Duplex-Bench v1.5).","first":false,"discovered":"launch","source":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.25176"},{"name":"Three turn-taking modes and voice cloning","detail":"server_vad, semantic smart_turn and push-to-talk modes; system voices plus cloned custom voices; 16 kHz PCM in, 24 kHz PCM out.","first":false,"discovered":"launch","source":"https://help.aliyun.com/en/model-studio/qwen-audio-realtime-user-guides"},{"name":"~85% price cut at launch","detail":"Alibaba cut Realtime prices about 85% with the 3.1 release (TTS ~70%, ASR up to 95%).","first":false,"discovered":"launch","source":"https://x.com/Alibaba_Qwen/status/2102687258990026993"}],"entry":"2026-09-23-qwen-audio-3-1","notes":"Languages: de, en, es, fr, id, it, ja, ko, pt, ru, zh (Mandarin, Cantonese and 18+ Chinese varieties). Predecessors qwen-audio-3.0-realtime-plus / -flash (July 2026) still listed. Press (MarkTechPost) reports interruption-stop latency 1.116 s vs 0.383 s for GPT-Realtime-2 and higher red-team refusal for GPT-Realtime-2; not verified on an official page. Release date is the announcement date (Qwen X post / Apsara); Model Studio pricing for this id not verified.","verified":"2026-09-29","body_md":"Alibaba's hosted real-time voice agent model (WebSocket Realtime API, OpenAI-Realtime-style events).\n\nSources: https://www.qwencloud.com/models/qwen-audio-3.1-realtime-plus · https://help.aliyun.com/en/model-studio/qwen-audio-realtime-user-guides · https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.25176","page_url":"https://postcutoff.com/m/qwen-audio-3-1-realtime/","standing":{"kind":"speech and audio","newer_count":16,"newer":[{"id":"nemotron-3-5-transcribe","name":"NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe (30B-A4B)","org":"NVIDIA","released":"2026-10-28","page_url":"https://postcutoff.com/m/nemotron-3-5-transcribe/"},{"id":"hy-simulmt-30b-a3b","name":"Hy-SimulMT-30B-A3B","org":"Tencent","released":"2026-10-22","page_url":"https://postcutoff.com/m/hy-simulmt-30b-a3b/"},{"id":"eleven-realtime-v1-max","name":"Eleven Realtime v1 Max / Mini","org":"ElevenLabs","released":"2026-10-20","page_url":"https://postcutoff.com/m/eleven-realtime-v1-max/"},{"id":"voxtral-mini-transcribe-3","name":"Voxtral Mini Transcribe 3 (+ Mini Transcribe Realtime 3)","org":"Mistral AI","released":"2026-10-20","page_url":"https://postcutoff.com/m/voxtral-mini-transcribe-3/"},{"id":"voxtral-small-transcribe-3","name":"Voxtral Small Transcribe 3","org":"Mistral AI","released":"2026-10-20","page_url":"https://postcutoff.com/m/voxtral-small-transcribe-3/"}],"before":{"id":"qwen-audio-3-1-tts-next","name":"Qwen-Audio-3.1-TTS-Next","org":"Alibaba (Qwen)","released":"2026-09-22","page_url":"https://postcutoff.com/m/qwen-audio-3-1-tts-next/"},"after":null,"weights":"closed","licence":"proprietary","licence_permissive":false,"summary":"Closed weights; access is hosted only."}}