Alibaba

Qwen-Omni Turbo

Revisado por el equipo de investigación de GetInfoUsÚltima revisión: October 2026Política editorial
74
Intelligence Index

en tiempo real end-un-end voz y visión conversacional AI supporting duplex audio transmisión y instant visual fundamentación.

Technical Specifications

Provider
Alibaba
Category
flagship
Release Date
2025-01
Knowledge Cutoff
November 2024
Architecture
End-to-End Omni-Modal Multimodal Transformer
Parameters
Confidential
Context Window
33K tokens
Max Output
8K tokens
Cached Input Price
$0.03 / 1M tokens
Batch API Discount
50% off async batch
Consumer Subscription
API Pay-as-you-go
Reasoning Mode
No (Standard)
Reasoning Effort Control
Fixed
Tool Calling
Yes
Structured Outputs
Yes
Open Weights
No (Proprietary Cloud)
Input Modalities
text, vision, audio
Output Modalities
text, audio
Official Documentation
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Data Privacy, Licensing & Deployment Governance

API Data Training Policy
API payloads are excluded from model training by default
Model License & Commercial Rights
Proprietary Commercial API (Alibaba Terms)
Deployment & Cloud Availability
Alibaba Cloud API & Enterprise Endpoints
Output Ownership
Full commercial ownership of generated outputs

Official Provider Release Intelligence, API Quotas & Agentic Specs

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Official API Model ID (SDK String)
qwen-omni-turbo-instruct
Supported SDK & API Protocol
Alibaba REST API (OpenAI-Compatible)
Lifecycle & Deprecation Status
Active GA (Guaranteed support through 2027+)
Production Rate Limits (RPM & TPM)
5,000 – 15,000 RPM (Production Tier) · 800,000 – 2,000,000 TPM
Long-Context Pricing Tier (>128K / >200K)
Flat rate ($0.3/1M in) across full 33K window
Prompt Cache Write & TTL Policy
Cached input at $0.03/1M tokens
Computer Use & Browser GUI Agent
Supported (Screen coordinate grounding, browser & desktop GUI action loops)
MCP & Parallel Tool Calling
Native MCP Client/Server ready · Parallel function calling · 100% Strict JSON Schema
Web Search Grounding & Code Sandbox
Supported via external Tavily/Exa Search & E2B/Docker Sandbox tools
Fine-Tuning & Distillation Support
API Prompt Engineering & RAG Distillation
Multimodal Tokenization Billing
Text BPE (~4 chars/token) · Vision (~258–765 tokens per image tile) · Audio (~25–32 tokens/sec)
Weights Precision & Quantization
Cloud-Hosted Proprietary (FP8 / BF16 Tensor Core Cluster)
Minimum GPU VRAM Requirement
Zero Local VRAM Required (100% Serverless Cloud API)
Supported Inference Engines
Managed Alibaba Cloud API
System Card & Safety Framework
Alibaba Production Safety & Alignment Verified
Enterprise Compliance (SOC2 / HIPAA / ZDR)
SOC2 Type II · GDPR · Zero Data Retention (ZDR) & HIPAA BAA Available on Enterprise Tier
Engineering & Pricing Workbench

Qwen-Omni Turbo Cost, Context, Hardware & API Integration

500 / day
4,000 tok
1,000 tok
Conversation Depth (History Re-billing):1 Turn (Single-Shot)
50%
Estimated Monthly API Cost (30 Days)
$27.90$36.00
Monthly Savings: $8.10 (Caching/Batch)
Subscription ($20/mo) vs API

For single-user chat, a $20/mo subscription caps your bill below this API volume.

Break-even point: ~358 requests/day equals $20/month.

Same Monthly Workload Cost Across Popular Reference Models

Qwen-Omni Turbo (Active)
$27.90
/ month
Gemini 2.5 Flash
$18.00
/ month
DeepSeek V3
$32.70
/ month
GPT-4o
$300.00
/ month
Claude 3.7 Sonnet
$405.00
/ month

Live Prompt Paste Tokenizer & Cost Counter

Paste real system instructions, JSON schemas, or code to measure BPE token counts across tokenizers.

Chars / Words
175 / 24
OpenAI o200k
~46 tok
Claude BPE
~49 tok
Llama / DeepSeek
~51 tok

Hybrid Prompt Routing Cascade Simulator

Route routine queries to a fast lightweight model ($0.15/1M) and escalate only complex reasoning turns to Qwen-Omni Turbo:

Cascaded Monthly Bill:$20.48/mo
Saves $7.42/mo (27% cost reduction) vs sending 100% of traffic to Qwen-Omni Turbo.

Benchmark Scores & 6-Axis Capability Radar

Benchmark Encyclopedia
Coding (76)Reasoning (74)Knowledge (69)Speed (60)Context (55)Cost Value (84)
Qwen-Omni Turbo2026 Frontier Median
MMLU-Pro
69%
HumanEval
76%
Chatbot Arena Elo
1235pts

Strengths

  • nativo completo-duplex voz-un-voz interaction sin separate TTS canalizaciones
  • sub-400ms voz response latencia para natural phone-like conversations
  • Concurrent visual scene perception y vocal dialogue

Limitations & Trade-offs

  • ventana de contexto limitado un 32K tokens un maintain bajo-latencia audio buffering
  • complejo codificación y técnico STEM precisión es menor que texto-solo flagships

Editorial Assessment

de Alibaba direct answer un GPT-4o voz, ofreciendo nativo multimodal conversación un bajo costo.

Best for: en tiempo real voz cliente agentes, interactivo tutors, y hands-free smart devices

Frequently Asked Questions about Qwen-Omni Turbo

How much does the Qwen-Omni Turbo API cost per 1M tokens?+

Qwen-Omni Turbo by Alibaba is priced at $0.3 per 1M input tokens and $1.2 per 1M output tokens. With prompt caching enabled, cached input tokens cost $0.03 per 1M tokens, and asynchronous Batch API requests receive a 50% discount.

Should I use a $20/month subscription or the Qwen-Omni Turbo pay-as-you-go API?+

A flat $20/month consumer subscription is predictable for daily interactive chat and manual coding. However, if you are building software, running automated workflows, or sending low-to-moderate volume with prompt caching enabled, the pay-as-you-go API is typically far more cost-effective and offers higher rate limits without manual UI caps.

How many words and pages fit in Qwen-Omni Turbo's context window?+

Qwen-Omni Turbo features a 33K tokens context window, which equals approximately 24,576 English words or ~66 standard single-spaced pages in a single prompt. Its maximum output generation per turn is 8,192 tokens.

Can I run Qwen-Omni Turbo locally on my own GPU (Open Weights)?+

No, Qwen-Omni Turbo is a proprietary closed-weights model hosted by Alibaba. It cannot be downloaded for local GPU execution and must be accessed via Alibaba's official API or cloud platform.

Does Alibaba train on data sent to the Qwen-Omni Turbo API, and is commercial use allowed?+

API payloads are excluded from model training by default. License tier: Proprietary Commercial API (Alibaba Terms). Full commercial ownership of generated outputs. Supported deployment channels include: Alibaba Cloud API & Enterprise Endpoints.

How does Qwen-Omni Turbo perform on coding and reasoning benchmarks?+

Qwen-Omni Turbo achieves a composite Intelligence Index of 74/100, scoring N/A% on SWE-bench Verified, N/A% on GPQA Diamond, 69% on MMLU-Pro, and 1235 pts on Chatbot Arena Elo.

What is Qwen-Omni Turbo best used for?+

Qwen-Omni Turbo is best suited for: en tiempo real voz cliente agentes, interactivo tutors, y hands-free smart devices. Assessment: de Alibaba direct answer un GPT-4o voz, ofreciendo nativo multimodal conversación un bajo costo.

Las puntuaciones de benchmarks, precios por token y límites de tasa evolucionan rápidamente. Verifique siempre las especificaciones actuales en la documentación oficial del proveedor.

Fuentes: Alibaba Cloud DashScope Omni API Documentation↗