qwen3.8-omni-flash matches gemini flash benchmarks at lower price
qwen released qwen3.8-omni-flash, a multimodal model that matches gemini flash 3.8 benchmarks at lower pricing, affecting ai developers and businesses.
qwen introduced qwen3.8-omni-flash, a multimodal model for ai agents that handles audio and video inputs, with a context window of one million tokens. it achieves similar performance to google's gemini flash 3.8 in multimodal benchmarks. qwen's pricing is significantly lower, at $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.47 per million output tokens, compared to gemini flash 3.8's $0.75 and $3.75 respectively. this development affects ai developers and businesses, offering a more affordable option for multimodal ai capabilities.