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Alibaba Cloud / Qwen3.8-Omni

Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash Realtime

Realtime audio and video conversation with spoken replies, multichannel input, custom tools and remote MCP.

availableClosed weightsSpeech-to-speechVisionAgents
Official documentation (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 14 Oct 2026
27 of 36 specification fields collected
Input token limit196.6K196,608 tokens
Maximum output65.5K65,536 tokens
Input billingSee ratesAlibaba Model Studio · Singapore
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.

Context / input limit
Not collected
Input modalities
Text, Image, Audio, VideoSource for Input modalities (opens in a new tab)
Reasoning
Not collected
Structured output
Not collected
Batch processing
Not collected
Fine-tuning
Not collected
Knowledge cutoff
Not collected
Release date
2026-09-21Source for Release date (opens in a new tab)

Earliest reviewed regional platform release entry, not a date inferred from the API selector.

Parameters
Not collected
Architecture
Not collected
Languages
View all 112 entries
  • Chinese
  • English
  • German
  • French
  • Italian
  • Czech
  • Indonesian
  • Thai
  • Korean
  • Polish
  • Japanese
  • Vietnamese
  • Finnish
  • Portuguese
  • Spanish
  • Dutch
  • Russian
  • Malay
  • Catalan
  • Swedish
  • Turkish
  • Ukrainian
  • Romanian
  • Slovak
  • Danish
  • Icelandic
  • Norwegian (Bokmål)
  • Macedonian
  • Greek
  • Hungarian
  • Galician
  • Filipino
  • Croatian
  • Bosnian
  • Slovenian
  • Bulgarian
  • Kazakh
  • Belarusian
  • Latvian
  • Estonian
  • Azerbaijani
  • Uyghur
  • Swahili
  • Hindi
  • Esperanto
  • Kyrgyz
  • Tajik
  • Cebuano
  • Afrikaans
  • Arabic
  • Lithuanian
  • Javanese
  • Bengali
  • Persian
  • Hebrew
  • Punjabi
  • Gujarati
  • Mongolian
  • Asturian
  • Kannada
  • Marathi
  • Interlingua
  • Malayalam
  • Maltese
  • Norwegian Nynorsk
  • Telugu
  • Urdu
  • Georgian
  • Basque
  • Tamil
  • Odia
  • Serbian
  • Maori
  • Northeastern Mandarin
  • Guizhou dialect
  • Cantonese
  • Henan dialect
  • Hong Kong Cantonese
  • Shanghainese
  • Shaanxi dialect
  • Tianjin dialect
  • Taiwanese Hokkien
  • Yunnan dialect
  • Anhui dialect
  • Fujian dialect
  • Gansu dialect
  • Guangdong dialect
  • Hubei dialect
  • Hunan dialect
  • Jiangxi dialect
  • Shandong dialect
  • Shanxi dialect
  • Sichuan dialect
  • Guangxi dialect
  • Hainan dialect
  • Chongqing dialect
  • Changsha dialect
  • Hangzhou dialect
  • Hefei dialect
  • Yinchuan dialect
  • Zhengzhou dialect
  • Shenyang dialect
  • Wenzhou dialect
  • Wuhan dialect
  • Kunming dialect
  • Taiyuan dialect
  • Nanchang dialect
  • Jinan dialect
  • Lanzhou dialect
  • Nanjing dialect
  • Hakka
  • Southern Min
Source for Languages (opens in a new tab)

Audio input languages and dialects explicitly listed in the guide: 112 named entries. The same guide advertises 113; its language subtotal is one higher than the enumerated list.

Context caching
Not collected
Data retention
Default inference prompts and responses are retained up to 30 days, subject to legal/security exceptions. Stateful conversation storage and files remain until deleted by the user. This release is not named in the current ZDR roster; do not assume zero retention.Source for Data retention (opens in a new tab)
API aliases
qwen3.8-omni-flash-realtimeSource for API aliases (opens in a new tab)
Retained audio history
Up to 100 turns and 600 cumulative secondsSource for Retained audio history (opens in a new tab)
Retained video history
Up to 50 turns and 240 cumulative secondsSource for Retained video history (opens in a new tab)
Audio channels
1, 2 or 4 over WebSocket; multichannel input uses 16 kHz PCMSource for Audio channels (opens in a new tab)
Stock voice catalog
56 unique named presets; Tina is the defaultSource for Stock voice catalog (opens in a new tab)
Video aggregation
session.video.input.representation_compact: none by default; normal enables aggregationSource for Video aggregation (opens in a new tab)
Request mode
WebSocket, WebRTC or AOQSource for Request mode (opens in a new tab)
Usage metering
7 tokens/second input audio; 12.5 tokens/second output audio. Audio under one second is billed as one second. Spatial audio uses 2× input audio tokens for either 2 or 4 channels. Retained history is processed and counted again on subsequent turns. Spoken output bills both audio and accompanying text.Source for Usage metering (opens in a new tab)
Language coverage
Provider states 113 input languages/dialects; 112 are enumerated. Output: 36 languages/dialects.Source for Language coverage (opens in a new tab)
Speech output languages
View all 36 entries
  • Chinese
  • English
  • German
  • Italian
  • Portuguese
  • Spanish
  • Japanese
  • Korean
  • French
  • Russian
  • Thai
  • Indonesian
  • Arabic
  • Vietnamese
  • Turkish
  • Finnish
  • Polish
  • Hindi
  • Dutch
  • Czech
  • Urdu
  • Tagalog
  • Swedish
  • Danish
  • Hebrew
  • Icelandic
  • Malay
  • Norwegian
  • Persian
  • Sichuan dialect
  • Beijing dialect
  • Tianjin dialect
  • Nanjing dialect
  • Shaanxi dialect
  • Cantonese
  • Southern Min
Source for Speech output languages (opens in a new tab)
Voice cloning
SupportedSource for Voice cloning (opens in a new tab)

The enrollment target_model and conversation model must match. The published target roster lists the undated API selector; pinned-selector compatibility remains unverified.

Voice reference requirements
Mono WAV (16-bit), MP3 or M4A; at least 24 kHz; maximum 60 seconds; under 10 MB; at least 3 seconds of clear continuous speech. A 10–20 second clip is recommended.Source for Voice reference requirements (opens in a new tab)
Custom voice quota
1,000 voices per account; unused voices are deleted after one yearSource for Custom voice quota (opens in a new tab)
Voice enrollment cost
USD 0.01 per successfully created voice, separate from inference. Eligible Beijing/Singapore accounts have 1,000 creations free for 90 days; deleting a voice does not restore quota.Source for Voice enrollment cost (opens in a new tab)
Session duration
Up to 120 minutes per WebSocket session; connection closes at the limitSource for Session duration (opens in a new tab)
Tool and search restrictions
Web search and custom tool calling are mutually exclusiveSource for Tool and search restrictions (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 Model Studio · Singapore

Provider source (opens in a new tab)
API model ID
qwen3.8-omni-flash-realtime
Access
WebSocket, WebRTC or AOQ with a matching regional workspace API key. WebSocket requires the workspace-specific /api-ws/v1/realtime endpoint and model query parameter. wss://{WorkspaceId}.ap-southeast-1.maas.aliyuncs.com/api-ws/v1/realtime?model=qwen3.8-omni-flash-realtime
Regions
Singapore
Published request quota
60 requests/minuteSource for Published request quota (opens in a new tab)
Published token quota
2,000,000 tokens/minuteSource for Published token quota (opens in a new tab)
Free usage allowance
1 million tokens, valid for 90 days from the latest of activation, release or access approvalSource for Free usage allowance (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 multimodalAudio input1$0.931M tokens
Realtime multimodalAudio output1$1.871M tokens
Realtime multimodalText / image / video input1$0.231M tokens
Realtime multimodalText output1$0.701M tokens
Voice customizationVoice creation2$0.01successfully created voice

Rate conditions

  1. Native modality-specific tokens. Spoken output incurs both the audio output charge and corresponding text output charge. No flat per-second or generic per-question conversion is assumed.
  2. Separate enrollment operation, not an inference token charge. Failures are free. The documented target_model must match the conversation model; eligible regional free quotas and expiry apply.
Pricing source (opens in a new tab)Pricing source (opens in a new tab)

Data & enterprise terms

Default inference prompts and responses are retained up to 30 days, subject to legal/security exceptions. Stateful conversation storage and files remain until deleted by the user. This release is not named in the current ZDR roster; do not assume zero retention.

Read the service policy (opens in a new tab)

Alibaba Model Studio · China (Beijing)

Provider source (opens in a new tab)
API model ID
qwen3.8-omni-flash-realtime
Access
WebSocket, WebRTC or AOQ with a matching regional workspace API key. WebSocket requires the workspace-specific /api-ws/v1/realtime endpoint and model query parameter. wss://{WorkspaceId}.cn-beijing.maas.aliyuncs.com/api-ws/v1/realtime?model=qwen3.8-omni-flash-realtime
Regions
China (Beijing)
Published request quota
60 requests/minuteSource for Published request quota (opens in a new tab)
Published token quota
2,000,000 tokens/minuteSource for Published token quota (opens in a new tab)
Free usage allowance
Singapore-only free quota does not applySource for Free usage allowance (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 multimodalAudio input1$0.8481M tokens
Realtime multimodalAudio output1$1.6961M tokens
Realtime multimodalText / image / video input1$0.2121M tokens
Realtime multimodalText output1$0.6361M tokens
Voice customizationVoice creation2$0.01successfully created voice

Rate conditions

  1. Native modality-specific tokens. Spoken output incurs both the audio output charge and corresponding text output charge. No flat per-second or generic per-question conversion is assumed.
  2. Separate enrollment operation, not an inference token charge. Failures are free. The documented target_model must match the conversation model; eligible regional free quotas and expiry apply.
Pricing source (opens in a new tab)Pricing source (opens in a new tab)

Data & enterprise terms

Default inference prompts and responses are retained up to 30 days, subject to legal/security exceptions. Stateful conversation storage and files remain until deleted by the user. This release is not named in the current ZDR roster; do not assume zero retention.

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.

Alibaba Model Studio · Singapore

qwen3.8-omni-flash-realtime
Not verified
How it works
Not collected
Minimum reusable input
Not collected
Lifetime & refresh
Not collected
How to enable it
Not collected
Usage fields
Not collected
Billing rules
Not collected
Limits & data boundaries
Not collected

No verified cache rate for this endpoint. An empty rate is not a zero charge.

Alibaba Model Studio · China (Beijing)

qwen3.8-omni-flash-realtime
Not verified
How it works
Not collected
Minimum reusable input
Not collected
Lifetime & refresh
Not collected
How to enable it
Not collected
Usage fields
Not collected
Billing rules
Not collected
Limits & data boundaries
Not collected

No verified cache rate for this endpoint. An empty rate is not a zero charge.

Voice choices

56 voices

Choose a voice within Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash Realtime. These are API voice identifiers, not additional model releases. Source links document each voice.

Published voice catalog
Voice / API IDLanguage & accentDelivery
TinaTinaChinese (Mandarin), English, French, German, Russian, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Indonesian, Arabic, Vietnamese, Turkish, Finnish, Polish, Hindi, Dutch, Czech, Urdu, Tagalog, Swedish, Danish, Hebrew, Icelandic, Malay, Norwegian, Persian
See the published language list
Provider preset voice. Availability and pronunciation vary by language.Voice source (opens in a new tab)
CindyCindyChinese (Taiwanese accent), English, French, German, Russian, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Indonesian, Arabic, Vietnamese, Turkish, Finnish, Polish, Hindi, Dutch, Czech, Urdu, Tagalog, Swedish, Danish, Hebrew, Icelandic, Malay, Norwegian, Persian
See the published language list
Provider preset voice. Availability and pronunciation vary by language.Voice source (opens in a new tab)
Liora MiraLiora MiraChinese (Mandarin), English, French, German, Russian, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Indonesian, Arabic, Vietnamese, Turkish, Finnish, Polish, Hindi, Dutch, Czech, Urdu, Tagalog, Swedish, Danish, Hebrew, Icelandic, Malay, Norwegian, Persian
See the published language list
Provider preset voice. Availability and pronunciation vary by language.Voice source (opens in a new tab)
RaymondRaymondChinese (Mandarin), English, French, German, Russian, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Indonesian, Arabic, Vietnamese, Turkish, Finnish, Polish, Hindi, Dutch, Czech, Urdu, Tagalog, Swedish, Danish, Hebrew, Icelandic, Malay, Norwegian, Persian
See the published language list
Provider preset voice. Availability and pronunciation vary by language.Voice source (opens in a new tab)
ZaneZaneNot specified in the voice table
See the published language list
Provider preset voice. Availability and pronunciation vary by language.Voice source (opens in a new tab)
KaterinaKaterinaChinese (Mandarin), English, French, German, Russian, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Indonesian, Arabic, Vietnamese, Turkish, Finnish, Polish, Hindi, Dutch, Czech, Urdu, Tagalog, Swedish, Danish, Hebrew, Icelandic, Malay, Norwegian, Persian
See the published language list
Provider preset voice. Availability and pronunciation vary by language.Voice source (opens in a new tab)
RyanRyanChinese (Mandarin), English, French, German, Russian, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Indonesian, Arabic, Vietnamese, Turkish, Finnish, Polish, Hindi, Dutch, Czech, Urdu, Tagalog, Swedish, Danish, Hebrew, Icelandic, Malay, Norwegian, Persian
See the published language list
Provider preset voice. Availability and pronunciation vary by language.Voice source (opens in a new tab)
MiaMiaChinese (Mandarin), English, French, German, Russian, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Indonesian, Arabic, Vietnamese, Turkish, Finnish, Polish, Hindi, Dutch, Czech, Urdu, Tagalog, Swedish, Danish, Hebrew, Icelandic, Malay, Norwegian, Persian
See the published language list
Provider preset voice. Availability and pronunciation vary by language.Voice source (opens in a new tab)

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 release-specific Alibaba-managed API documentation and the reviewed official Qwen public-weight inventory. No matching weights are published for this named hosted release in that inventory. Public Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B and older Qwen-Omni checkpoints are separate identities and are excluded; this is not a blanket classification of the Qwen family.

Classification evidence (opens in a new tab)

Lifecycle dates

Platform release · Singapore / International21 Sept 2026Source (opens in a new tab)
Platform release · China (Beijing)21 Sept 2026Source (opens in a new tab)

Sources reviewed