Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash undercuts Gemini on audio

Alibaba introduced the multimodal model Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash, available in Qwen Chat and via OpenAI-compatible endpoints. It reduces audiovisual processing costs by over 93% and cuts token consumption by 45.7%.

• Model available in Qwen Chat and via OpenAI-compatible APIs
• Audiovisual processing costs reduced by over 93%
• Token consumption cut by 45.7%