As of: 2026-11-13 13:49 CET.
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# Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash

Alibaba (Qwen), Qwen3.8 family. Status: current. Type: multimodal model. Released: 2026-09. Training cutoff: not published.

## How to call it

| 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 | https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio/qwen3-8-omni-flash |
| Alibaba Cloud Model Studio (realtime voice/video) | `qwen3.8-omni-flash-realtime` |  | https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio/models |
| OpenRouter | `qwen/qwen3.8-omni-flash` |  | https://openrouter.ai/qwen/qwen3.8-omni-flash |
| Web app |  |  | https://chat.qwen.ai |

## Pricing

- Input: $0.15 per 1M tokens
- Output: $0.47 per 1M tokens
- Cache read: $0.016 per 1M tokens
- Unit as published: per 1M tokens (USD), Singapore/International
- Source: https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio/model-pricing
- Last checked: 2026-09-29

## Specs

- Input: text, image, audio, video
- Output: text
- Context window: 1,000,000 tokens
- Max output: 131,072 tokens
- Open weights: no
- Licence: proprietary

## What it has not seen

- No published training cutoff. Counted from its release (2026-09): at least 1,206 AI events since (253 major, 54 historic), as of 2026-11-13.
- Everything since August 2026: https://postcutoff.com/since/2026-08/

## What stands out

- Audio + video understanding with 1M context: Text, image, audio and video in, text out; 113 input languages/dialects for audio. Source: https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio/qwen3-8-omni-flash
- Spatial (multichannel) audio input: Accepts multichannel/spatial audio via use_multichannel in Chat Completions. Source: https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio/qwen3-8-omni-flash
- 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. Source: https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio/models

## 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.

Alibaba's omni model for transcription-plus-reasoning, meeting/video analysis and multimodal agents at Flash prices.

```bash
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

Model page: https://postcutoff.com/m/qwen3-8-omni-flash/