Qwen Omni 3.8 Flash Realtime

Released on September 18, 2026

Changes from previous version

Same omnimodal stack as Qwen Omni 3.8 Flash, served over the realtime API for low-latency speech and camera interaction instead of Chat Completions text output.

Release Summary

Live WebSocket and WebRTC sibling of Qwen Omni 3.8 Flash for continuous audio-visual conversation. API ID qwen3.8-omni-flash-realtime streams camera and microphone input and returns text plus audio, with Skills, tool calls, spatial audio, and speech generation in 29 languages. Qwen reports about 83-85 text tokens/s and sub-second time to first audio packet on 6-20 second audio and audio-visual clips. Ships with open-source Qwen-Live Harness. Comparable live-dialogue products: Gemini Live 3.8 and GPT Live 1.

Timeline

September 18, 2026

Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash-Realtime released

Alibaba opens the realtime Omni Flash endpoint over WebSocket and WebRTC, with Qwen-Live Harness for continuous omnimodal agents.