Qwen3.8-LiveTranslate (Flash Realtime)
Speech and audio
qwen3.8-livetranslate-flash-realtime
$7.50 audio in, $20 text out per 1M tokens
Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash
Alibaba’s omni model for transcription-plus-reasoning, meeting/video analysis and multimodal agents at Flash prices.
Model idqwen3.8-omni-flash
Price$0.15 in, $0.47 out per 1M tokens
Checked29 September 2026
No published training cutoff
At least1,206events since its release in September 2026
54 historic, 253 major. 44 days of news.
Alibaba (Qwen) doesn’t publish a training cutoff, so we count from its release date. The real gap is larger.
How to call it
4 ways to use Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash, with the model id each provider expects.
| Provider | Model id | Endpoint | Docs |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alibaba Cloud Model Studio (DashScope, Singapore/Intl) | qwen3.8-omni-flash |
https://{WorkspaceId}.ap-southeast-1.maas.aliyuncs.com/compatible-mode/v1 |
alibabacloud.com |
| Alibaba Cloud Model Studio (realtime voice/video) | qwen3.8-omni-flash-realtime |
alibabacloud.com | |
| OpenRouter | qwen/qwen3.8-omni-flash |
openrouter.ai | |
| Web app | chat.qwen.ai |
Pricing
| Input | $0.15 per 1M tokens |
|---|---|
| Output | $0.47 per 1M tokens |
| Cache read | $0.016 per 1M tokens |
As published: “per 1M tokens (USD), Singapore/International”.
Source: alibabacloud.com, checked 29 September 2026.
Specs
- Input
- Text, images, audio and video
- Output
- Text
- Context window
- 1,000,000 tokens
- Max output
- 131,072 tokens
- Open weights
- No
- Licence
- Proprietary
- Training cutoff
- Not published
- Released
- September 2026
- Status
- Current
- Type
- Multimodal model
What stands out
What its maker marketed at launch, and what people found later, each with its source.
Audio + video understanding with 1M context
Text, image, audio and video in, text out; 113 input languages/dialects for audio.
Spatial (multichannel) audio input
Accepts multichannel/spatial audio via use_multichannel in Chat Completions.
Realtime speech-to-speech sibling
qwen3.8-omni-flash-realtime handles live audio/video conversation; for non-realtime audio output Alibaba points to qwen3.5-omni-plus.
Notes
Thinking on by default with adjustable effort. Realtime variant qwen3.8-omni-flash-realtime: $0.93 audio in / $1.87 audio out per 1M tokens (Singapore/Intl pricing page, checked 2026-09-29). For dedicated hosted voice agents Alibaba also offers qwen-audio-3.1-realtime-plus (see qwen-audio-3-1-realtime). Official blog: https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.8-omni-flash (Qwen blog index date 2026-09-18; the page header shows Sept 14 as a draft); OpenRouter listing 2026-09-21.
curl "https://{WorkspaceId}.ap-southeast-1.maas.aliyuncs.com/compatible-mode/v1/chat/completions" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $DASHSCOPE_API_KEY" -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"model":"qwen3.8-omni-flash","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello"}]}'
For audio/video inputs see the non-real-time guide linked from the model page.
Sources: https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio/qwen3-8-omni-flash · https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio/model-pricing