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Alibaba releases Qwen 3.8 Omni Flash multimodal model

Technical details surface: pricing and API structure disclosed

1 Sep 17 5:48 PM · 8d ago · 1 post · 1 source · development 1 of 2

Technical details reveal the model is API-only on Alibaba Cloud endpoints (Beijing, Singapore, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Frankfurt, US-Virginia), with unified token billing at $0.15/1M input on Singapore and no open weights. Only companion repositories (Qwen-MM-Plugins, Qwen-Live-Harness) are open-sourced.

Technical details surface: pricing and API structure disclosed
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“Native omni model, API-only. Text, image, audio, and video in; text out on the standard Chat Completions / Responses API, with synthesized speech out on the realtime variant (WebSocket/WebRTC).”

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