Alibaba · Qwen Omni line · lightweight
Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash was released by Alibaba on September 18, 2026, as a lightweight model in the Qwen Omni line.
Qwen's new omni-modal model for agent work: it takes text, images, audio and video, replies in text, and has a 1M-token context window, up from 256K on Qwen3.5-Omni.
Compared with Qwen3.5-Omni-Plus · comparison chosen by Alibaba
More than doubles the earlier Plus model's score on multimodal agent tasks
WildClawBench-MM — real agent tasks involving images, video or audio
71.0
▲ up from 34.5 for Qwen3.5-Omni-Plus · +36.5 points
Costs about 60% less for input and almost 80% less for output than the previous Flash model
Price per 1M tokens — what developers pay, input / output, international pricing
$0.15 / $0.47
▲ down from $0.40 / $2.20 for Qwen3.5-Omni-Flash · text output 79% cheaper
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