Qwen releases Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash multimodal agent model
Qwen launched Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash, its first multimodal model designed for AI agents, which processes audio and video together and can use tools independently. It nearly matches Gemini 3.8 Flash on audio-video benchmarks at a lower API cost.
First seen 17 Sep, 23:05 UTC on Hacker News4 sourcesLast update 29d ago
AlibabaLaunch · 17 Sep
Qwen3.8 Omni Flash
New-generation model
$0.15 / $0.47per M tokens, in / out
1Mcontext
Openweights
How Qwen3.8 Omni Flash compares
List prices per million tokens, context and Arena's text leaderboard, against Alibaba's other top models and the leading labs' best. The percentages are Qwen3.8 Omni Flash's price against each.
| Model | Released | Input | Output | Context | Arena |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen3.8 Omni Flash | September 2026 | $0.15 | $0.47 | 1M | not ranked yet |
| Qwen3.8 Max Prime | September 2026 | $4.00 -96% | $12.00 -96% | 1M | not ranked yet |
| Qwen3.8 Max | September 2026 | $2.00 -92% | $6.00 -92% | 1M | not ranked yet |
| Claude Opus 5.5 | September 2026 | $4.00 -96% | $20.00 -98% | 1M | #2 1507 |
| GPT-6 Astra | September 2026 | $10.00 -98% | $50.00 -99% | 1.05M | #30 1475 |
| Gemini 4 Argon | October 2026 | $2.00 -92% | $10.00 -95% | 1M | #1 1525 |
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