Definition
Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash is alibaba’s multimodal agent model released September 17–18, 2026. Accepts text, image, audio, and video input with 1M-token context window; native output is text with tool orchestration for external media production.
Specifications
- Input modalities: Text, image, audio, video
- Context: 1 million tokens
- Agent tooling: Function calling, web search, qwen-mm-plugins, Qwen-Live Harness
- Pricing: From $0.15/M input tokens; aggressive cache-hit discounts for repeated media analysis
- Availability: Alibaba Cloud Model Studio in 6 international regions
- Benchmarks: 25%+ average improvement over Qwen3.5-Omni-Plus across 29 benchmarks (vendor-reported); parameter count undisclosed
Architecture Pattern
Orchestration layer — model understands multimodal input and coordinates external tools rather than natively producing all output media types. Real-time speech via separate Realtime API.