Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash is 5 times cheaper than Gemini Flash!
Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash is the first multimodal Qwen model developed by Alibaba. It supports audio/video inputs and is five times cheaper than Gemini 3.8 Flash (per input token).
Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash is the first multimodal model published by Alibaba. Qwen is an agent that can do both audio/video inputting and tool invocation. The pricing is $0.15/million input tokens and $0.47/million output tokens for Qwen; while it’s $0.75/$3.75 for Gemini 3.8 Flash. Qwen has a 1M tokens context window. It provides an API service and supports Claude Code and Gemini CLI plugins.
On Alibaba’s audio/video test suites, Qwen achieves similar performance compared to Gemini Flash. I would consider using Qwen in some pipelines where there are a lot of video/audio processing tasks. For these kinds of tasks, cost is a big factor and sometimes we don’t really need cutting-edge technologies (e.g. video translation or summary)
Source: the-decoder.com
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