{"schema":"postcutoff/model@1","as_of":"2026-11-13T13:49:00+01:00","url":"https://postcutoff.com/m/qwen3-8-omni-flash/","md":"https://postcutoff.com/m/qwen3-8-omni-flash/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":"qwen3-8-omni-flash","name":"Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash","org":"Alibaba (Qwen)","family":"Qwen3.8","released":"2026-09","status":"current","type":"multimodal","modality_in":["text","image","audio","video"],"modality_out":["text"],"open_weights":false,"model_license":"proprietary","context_window":1000000,"max_output":131072,"knowledge_cutoff":null,"pricing":{"input":0.15,"output":0.47,"cache_read":0.016,"unit":"per 1M tokens (USD), Singapore/International","source":"https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio/model-pricing"},"price_line":"$0.15 in, $0.47 out per 1M tokens","access":[{"provider":"Alibaba Cloud Model Studio (DashScope, Singapore/Intl)","model_id":"qwen3.8-omni-flash","endpoint":"https://{WorkspaceId}.ap-southeast-1.maas.aliyuncs.com/compatible-mode/v1","docs":"https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio/qwen3-8-omni-flash"},{"provider":"Alibaba Cloud Model Studio (realtime voice/video)","model_id":"qwen3.8-omni-flash-realtime","docs":"https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio/models"},{"provider":"OpenRouter","model_id":"qwen/qwen3.8-omni-flash","url":"https://openrouter.ai/qwen/qwen3.8-omni-flash"},{"provider":"Web app","url":"https://chat.qwen.ai"}],"capabilities":[{"name":"Audio + video understanding with 1M context","detail":"Text, image, audio and video in, text out; 113 input languages/dialects for audio.","first":false,"discovered":"launch","source":"https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio/qwen3-8-omni-flash"},{"name":"Spatial (multichannel) audio input","detail":"Accepts multichannel/spatial audio via use_multichannel in Chat Completions.","first":false,"discovered":"launch","source":"https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio/qwen3-8-omni-flash"},{"name":"Realtime speech-to-speech sibling","detail":"qwen3.8-omni-flash-realtime handles live audio/video conversation; for non-realtime audio output Alibaba points to qwen3.5-omni-plus.","first":false,"discovered":"launch","source":"https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio/models"}],"entry":"2026-09-18-qwen3-8-omni-flash","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.","verified":"2026-09-29","body_md":"Alibaba's omni model for transcription-plus-reasoning, meeting/video analysis and multimodal agents at Flash prices.\n\n```bash\ncurl \"https://{WorkspaceId}.ap-southeast-1.maas.aliyuncs.com/compatible-mode/v1/chat/completions\" \\\n -H \"Authorization: Bearer $DASHSCOPE_API_KEY\" -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n -d '{\"model\":\"qwen3.8-omni-flash\",\"messages\":[{\"role\":\"user\",\"content\":\"Hello\"}]}'\n```\n\nFor audio/video inputs see the non-real-time guide linked from the model page.\n\nSources: https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio/qwen3-8-omni-flash · https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio/model-pricing","page_url":"https://postcutoff.com/m/qwen3-8-omni-flash/","events_after":null,"major_after":null,"historic_after":null,"missing_at_launch":null,"events_since_release":1206,"you_url":"https://postcutoff.com/you/qwen3-8-omni-flash/","briefings":null}