{"schema":"postcutoff/model@1","as_of":"2026-10-25T23:49:00+01:00","url":"https://postcutoff.com/m/qwen-audio-3-1-tts-plus/","md":"https://postcutoff.com/m/qwen-audio-3-1-tts-plus/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-tts-plus","name":"Qwen-Audio-3.1-TTS (Plus / Flash)","org":"Alibaba (Qwen)","family":"Qwen-Audio 3.1","released":"2026-09-23","status":"current","type":"audio/speech","modality_in":["text","audio"],"modality_out":["audio"],"open_weights":false,"model_license":"proprietary","context_window":null,"max_output":null,"knowledge_cutoff":null,"pricing":{"per_10k_characters_intl":0.3,"per_10k_characters_beijing":0.2,"unit":"USD per 10,000 characters for qwen-audio-3.1-tts-plus, no output charge ($30 / $20 per 1M characters, Singapore / Beijing). qwen-audio-3.1-tts-flash is billed by tokens: $0.23 in / $1.87 out per 1M tokens (Singapore), $0.212 / $1.696 (Beijing)","source":"https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio/model-pricing"},"price_line":"$0.30 per 10k characters intl","access":[{"provider":"Alibaba Cloud Model Studio / QwenCloud (Singapore, Beijing)","model_id":"qwen-audio-3.1-tts-plus","endpoint":"https://{WorkspaceId}.ap-southeast-1.maas.aliyuncs.com/api/v1/services/audio/tts/SpeechSynthesizer","docs":"https://www.qwencloud.com/models/qwen-audio-3.1-tts-plus"},{"provider":"Alibaba Cloud Model Studio (Singapore, Beijing)","model_id":"qwen-audio-3.1-tts-flash","docs":"https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio/qwen-tts"}],"capabilities":[{"name":"Free-style instructions plus fine-grained tags","detail":"Natural-language `instruction` steering for system, cloned and designed voices, plus tag-based control of emotion, tone, persona, speaking rate, volume and style; nonverbal/emotion tags supported.","first":false,"discovered":"launch","source":"https://www.qwencloud.com/models/qwen-audio-3.1-tts-plus"},{"name":"Robust voice cloning and dialects","detail":"Cloning more robust to noisy or reverberant reference audio; minority languages and Chinese dialects (dialects for system voices that support them and for cloned voices via instruction).","first":false,"discovered":"launch","source":"https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio/qwen-tts"},{"name":"#3 on Artificial Analysis TTS arena","detail":"Qwen-Audio-3.1-TTS-Plus ranked #3 on the Artificial Analysis provider-voice TTS arena with Elo 1307 (read 2026-10-25).","first":false,"discovered":"later","source":"https://artificialanalysis.ai/text-to-speech/leaderboard"}],"entry":"2026-09-23-qwen-audio-3-1","notes":"Artificial Analysis TTS arena (https://artificialanalysis.ai/text-to-speech/leaderboard), read 2026-10-25: rank #3, Elo 1307, listed at $19.3 per 1M characters, which does not match Alibaba's current list price ($30/1M Singapore, $20/1M Beijing); AA's figure is close to the Beijing price but the gap is unexplained. Ids verified 2026-10-25 (they were not yet in the docs on 2026-09-29): qwen-audio-3.1-tts-plus and qwen-audio-3.1-tts-flash on the qwen-tts page (updated 2026-10-21), the pricing page and QwenCloud. Plus rate limit 180 RPM; sample voice longanhuan_v3.1. Singapore free quota 10,000 characters (Plus) / 1M tokens (Flash) for 90 days. Exact release date of these two ids not on the docs; date is the Qwen-Audio-3.1 launch. Language list, max input length and snapshot ids not stated. Not on OpenRouter (qwen/qwen-audio-3.1-tts-plus 404; 3.0-tts-plus is listed there). Siblings: qwen-audio-3-1-tts-next, qwen-audio-3-1-asr, qwen-audio-3-1-realtime. Predecessor: qwen-audio-3-0-tts.","verified":"2026-10-25","body_md":"Alibaba's hosted TTS in the Qwen-Audio 3.1 stack (Plus for quality, Flash for real time).\n\nSources: https://www.qwencloud.com/models/qwen-audio-3.1-tts-plus · https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio/qwen-tts · https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio/model-pricing · https://artificialanalysis.ai/text-to-speech/leaderboard","page_url":"https://postcutoff.com/m/qwen-audio-3-1-tts-plus/","standing":{"kind":"speech and audio","newer_count":14,"newer":[{"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/"},{"id":"voxtral-mini-tts-3","name":"Voxtral TTS 3 (Voxtral Mini TTS 3)","org":"Mistral AI","released":"2026-10-20","page_url":"https://postcutoff.com/m/voxtral-mini-tts-3/"},{"id":"gpt-live-1-1","name":"GPT-Live-1.1","org":"OpenAI","released":"2026-10-15","page_url":"https://postcutoff.com/m/gpt-live-1-1/"}],"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."}}