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Alibaba Cloud / Qwen-Audio ASR

Qwen-Audio-3.1-ASR-Flash-Message

Incremental voice-message transcription with optional text polishing and dialect preservation.

availableClosed weightsSpeech-to-text
Official documentation (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 14 Oct 2026
18 of 24 specification fields collected
Input token limit7.2K7,168 tokens
Maximum output1K1,024 tokens
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
Not collected
Parameters
Not collected
Architecture
Not collected
Languages
Not collected
Usage metering
Separate input and output token chargesSource for Usage metering (opens in a new tab)

Input audio, supplied context and result tokens must be accounted for under the specific API. No text-only per-question estimate is inferred.

Custom vocabulary
SupportedSource for Custom vocabulary (opens in a new tab)

Precompiled and inline hotword support; limits and weighting are endpoint-specific.

Request mode
WebSocket or AOQ voice-message transcriptionSource for Request mode (opens in a new tab)
Transcript polishing
Optional filler removal and text polishingSource for Transcript polishing (opens in a new tab)

Polishing changes transcript presentation; it is not verbatim transcription in that mode.

Dialect transcription controls
Preserve dialect expressions or normalize them to standard MandarinSource for Dialect transcription controls (opens in a new tab)

Controlled by keep_dialect; the default is false.

Data retention
Standard API inference prompts and responses are retained up to 30 days, subject to legal/security exceptions; stateful files remain until deleted. The 3.1 audio family is listed as eligible for opt-in workspace ZDR, subject to account approval and covered paths. Eligibility does not mean ZDR is enabled by default.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-3.1-asr-flash-message
Access
wss://{WorkspaceId}.cn-beijing.maas.aliyuncs.com/api-ws/v1/inference; run-task with model=qwen-audio-3.1-asr-flash-message and a same-region API key.
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
1200 requests/minuteSource for Published request quota (opens in a new tab)
Included free allowance
No free quotaSource for Included free allowance (opens in a new tab)

The reviewed pricing guide limits these model free quotas to Singapore.

Prices retain their published currencies and billing units below.

Published billing units · original currency · observed 14 Oct 2026
CategoryUsageRateUnit
Speech recognitionInput · speech recognition1$0.8481M input tokens
Speech recognitionOutput · speech recognition1$0.6361M output tokens

Rate conditions

  1. Original China (Beijing) list rate. Input and output have separate token charges; these are not a generic text-question tariff. 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. The 3.1 audio family is listed as eligible for opt-in workspace ZDR, subject to account approval and covered paths. Eligibility does not mean ZDR is enabled by default.

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-3.1-asr-flash-message
Access
wss://{WorkspaceId}.ap-southeast-1.maas.aliyuncs.com/api-ws/v1/inference; run-task with model=qwen-audio-3.1-asr-flash-message and a same-region API key.
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
1200 requests/minuteSource for Published request quota (opens in a new tab)
Included free allowance
1,000,000 tokensSource for Included free allowance (opens in a new tab)

90-day window from the latest of account activation, model release or application approval; not a permanent free rate.

Prices retain their published currencies and billing units below.

Published billing units · original currency · observed 14 Oct 2026
CategoryUsageRateUnit
Speech recognitionInput · speech recognition1$0.931M input tokens
Speech recognitionOutput · speech recognition1$0.701M output tokens

Rate conditions

  1. Original Singapore list rate. Input and output have separate token charges; these are not a generic text-question tariff. 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. The 3.1 audio family is listed as eligible for opt-in workspace ZDR, subject to account approval and covered paths. Eligibility does not mean ZDR is enabled by default.

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)

Sources reviewed