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September 21, 2026

New AI model: Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash

What this new AI model changed, with the numbers and their sources.

What shipped
● Alibaba · Qwen Omni · Sep 18
Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash
Qwen's first omni-modal model built for agents: it takes text, images, audio and video and returns text, with a 1M-token context window (up from 256K) and output tokens priced about 90% below Qwen3.5-Omni-Plus.
Compared with Qwen3.5-Omni-Plus · the model it replaces
71.0 ▲ up from 34.5 for Qwen3.5-Omni-Plus · +36.5 points
Completes 7 in 10 multimodal agent tasks · WildClawBench-MM
$0.15 / $0.47 ▼ down from $0.40 / $4.80 for Qwen3.5-Omni-Plus · output 90% cheaper
Costs about 90% less per output token than the model it replaces · Price per 1M tokens
Full card and timeline →
Sources: Qwen · QwenCloud (model page and pricing) · TechNode · Artificial Analysis (Qwen3.5 Omni Plus)
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