Alibaba releases Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash: the model watches and listens to hour-long videos and is 10 times cheaper than Gemini
Prepared by Sintelligent with the help of SI. Publication time restored from the build log. . Updated: .
Understanding video and audio at leader level now costs pennies, and multimodal agents will go mainstream.
The model accepts text, images, audio and video with a context of up to 1 million tokens, responds in text and can call tools on its own: for example, break down a long meeting, translate a TV series or edit a clip. According to Qwen, it is on average 25% better than Qwen3.5-Omni-Plus across 29 tests. On OmniVideoBench accuracy rose from 63.4 to 67.8, while 45.7% fewer tokens are used. The price is $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.47 per million output tokens, versus $1.50/$9.00 for Gemini 3.8 Flash, which the model, Qwen claims, comes close to on audio and video. The weights are not open; access is via API only.
Sources 2