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Alibaba Cloud / Qwen-Audio Realtime

Qwen-Audio-3.0-Realtime-Plus

Full-duplex voice conversation with streamed speech, tool calls and optional web search.

availableClosed weightsVoice conversation
Official documentation (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 14 Oct 2026
24 of 28 specification fields collected
Output formatsPCM, 24 kHz, 16-bit, monoSee specification notes below
Languages11 listedFull language list in specifications
Input billingSee ratesAlibaba Cloud Model Studio · China (Beijing)
Output billingSee ratesPublished units and conditions below

Specifications

Provider-documented facts. “Not collected” means we have not verified that field yet, not that the feature is unsupported.

Reasoning
Not collected
Streaming
SupportedSource for Streaming (opens in a new tab)

Incremental synthesis/transcription or duplex audio through the documented realtime protocol.

Knowledge cutoff
Not collected
Release date
2026-07-14Source for Release date (opens in a new tab)

China (Beijing) availability; Singapore followed on 2026-08-10.

Parameters
Not collected
Architecture
Not collected
Languages
German, English, Spanish, French, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, ChineseSource for Languages (opens in a new tab)

The guide also lists Mandarin and 20 regional Chinese varieties.

Input audio format
PCM, 16 kHz, 16-bit, monoSource for Input audio format (opens in a new tab)
Output formats
PCM, 24 kHz, 16-bit, monoSource for Output formats (opens in a new tab)
Retained audio history
Up to 50 audio turns and 300 seconds of retained audio context; default 20 turnsSource for Retained audio history (opens in a new tab)

Earlier history is discarded on overflow. This is retained conversation history, not a five-minute total connection-duration limit.

Automatic turn detection
Acoustic VAD, Semantic smart_turn, Manual push-to-talkSource for Automatic turn detection (opens in a new tab)
Tool and search restrictions
Web search and function calling cannot be enabled togetherSource for Tool and search restrictions (opens in a new tab)
Voice cloning
SupportedSource for Voice cloning (opens in a new tab)

Use a matching model/voice combination; enrollment may have separate costs.

Request mode
Full-duplex streaming; WebSocket, WebRTC or AOQSource for Request mode (opens in a new tab)
Usage metering
Separate text/audio input and output token ratesSource for Usage metering (opens in a new tab)

In audio response mode, accompanying output text is not separately charged. Do not add text-output charges to the audio-output rate.

Published chain-of-thought limit
1,024Source for Published chain-of-thought limit (opens in a new tab)

The card lists a chain-of-thought limit, but the reviewed event contract does not establish a user-selectable thinking mode.

Data retention
Standard API inference prompts and responses are retained up to 30 days, subject to legal/security exceptions; stateful files remain until deleted. This release is absent from the listed ZDR-supported audio families.Source for Data retention (opens in a new tab)

Access & pricing

Prices belong to an endpoint and billing tier. A provider listing does not guarantee access for every account or region.

Alibaba Cloud Model Studio · China (Beijing)

Provider source (opens in a new tab)
API model ID
qwen-audio-3.0-realtime-plus
Access
wss://{WorkspaceId}.cn-beijing.maas.aliyuncs.com/api-ws/v1/realtime?model=qwen-audio-3.0-realtime-plus; same-region API key. WebRTC and AOQ are additional documented transports.
Regions
China (Beijing). Deployment scope is not a country-only residency guarantee.
Streaming
SupportedSource for Streaming (opens in a new tab)

Incremental synthesis/transcription or duplex audio through the documented realtime protocol.

Published request quota
60 requests/minuteSource for Published request quota (opens in a new tab)
Published token quota
100,000 tokens/minuteSource for Published token quota (opens in a new tab)

Prices retain their published currencies and billing units below.

Published billing units · original currency · observed 14 Oct 2026
CategoryUsageRateUnit
Realtime voiceInput audio1$5.5011M audio tokens
Realtime voiceOutput audio1$20.6281M audio tokens
Realtime voiceInput text1$0.6881M text tokens
Realtime voiceOutput text1$5.5011M text tokens

Rate conditions

  1. Original China (Beijing) list rate. Text output pricing applies to text-output mode. In text-and-audio output mode, accompanying output text is not separately charged. Free-quota eligibility and promotional prices are separate; no currency conversion is applied.
Pricing source (opens in a new tab)

Data & enterprise terms

Standard API inference prompts and responses are retained up to 30 days, subject to legal/security exceptions; stateful files remain until deleted. This release is absent from the listed ZDR-supported audio families.

Read the service policy (opens in a new tab)

Alibaba Cloud Model Studio · Singapore

Provider source (opens in a new tab)
API model ID
qwen-audio-3.0-realtime-plus
Access
wss://{WorkspaceId}.ap-southeast-1.maas.aliyuncs.com/api-ws/v1/realtime?model=qwen-audio-3.0-realtime-plus; same-region API key. WebRTC and AOQ are additional documented transports.
Regions
Singapore / International. Deployment scope is not a country-only residency guarantee.
Streaming
SupportedSource for Streaming (opens in a new tab)

Incremental synthesis/transcription or duplex audio through the documented realtime protocol.

Published request quota
60 requests/minuteSource for Published request quota (opens in a new tab)
Published token quota
100,000 tokens/minuteSource for Published token quota (opens in a new tab)

Prices retain their published currencies and billing units below.

Published billing units · original currency · observed 14 Oct 2026
CategoryUsageRateUnit
Realtime voiceInput audio1$6.401M audio tokens
Realtime voiceOutput audio1$24.001M audio tokens
Realtime voiceInput text1$0.801M text tokens
Realtime voiceOutput text1$6.401M text tokens

Rate conditions

  1. Original Singapore list rate. Text output pricing applies to text-output mode. In text-and-audio output mode, accompanying output text is not separately charged. Free-quota eligibility and promotional prices are separate; no currency conversion is applied.
Pricing source (opens in a new tab)

Data & enterprise terms

Standard API inference prompts and responses are retained up to 30 days, subject to legal/security exceptions; stateful files remain until deleted. This release is absent from the listed ZDR-supported audio families.

Read the service policy (opens in a new tab)

Caching

Caching can reuse earlier input processing. Availability, lifetime and billing depend on the endpoint. A cache hit still generates a new response.

01 / INITIAL INPUTProcess & retain

The system processes eligible input and retains reusable state.

02 / LATER REQUESTCheck available state

Reuse depends on matching input, session state and the cache policy.

03 / CACHE HITReuse & generate

Reusing state can reduce repeated work. Any charges follow the billing rules below.

What the measurements say

No benchmark observations have been added for this model. We do not turn a vendor description into a performance score.

Latency and throughput depend on the host, request size, reasoning settings and load. There is no measured speed or global usage figure in this record.

The record behind the model

Why it is included

Inference from the release-specific hosted Model Studio identity, official technical/deployment documentation and reviewed Qwen/FunAudioLLM public-weight inventories. No matching weights are published in those inventories. Public Qwen-Audio, Qwen3-TTS, Qwen3-ASR, CosyVoice and Fun-ASR checkpoints have distinct names; no equivalence with this hosted selector is assumed. This is not a claim that the whole family or all Alibaba models are closed-weight.

Classification evidence (opens in a new tab)

Lifecycle dates

China (Beijing) Model Studio release14 Jul 2026Source (opens in a new tab)
International / Singapore availability10 Aug 2026Source (opens in a new tab)

Sources reviewed