LLM Reference

Qwen3.8-LiveTranslate

Released
2026-09-19
Last refreshed
2026-09-21
Status
Researched today
ProprietaryCommercial use: conditionalMultimodalAgentsVisionAudioMultimodalAgents

Qwen3.8-LiveTranslate is worth evaluating for agents and vision when its provider route and context window match the workload.

Use it for

  • Teams evaluating agents and vision
  • Workloads that can use a 53k context window
  • Buyers comparing 1 tracked provider route

Do not use it for

  • Strict JSON or tool-calling flows
Specifications
Family
Qwen3.8
Released
2026-09-19
Context
53k
Max output
4,000
Openness
Proprietary
License
ProprietaryCommercial use: conditional
Weights
Not released
Code
Unknown
Created by

AI research institute of Alibaba Group.

Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
Founded 2017
Website
Pricing
Output / 1M
$20.00
Input / 1M
$7.50

Cheapest of 1 route · Alibaba Cloud PAI-EAS

About

Qwen3.8-LiveTranslate is Alibaba Qwen's next-generation real-time simultaneous interpretation model, announced via @Alibaba_Qwen on 2026-09-19 (tip links blog id qwen3.8-livetranslate and QwenCloud). Tip: Interleave architecture; improves faithfulness/fluency/conciseness; reduces average lagging (LAAL) from 2.8s to 2.3s across 60 languages; real-time speaker diarization with more stable voice cloning; synchronized bilingual display; long-context disambiguation via conversation history. First-party QwenCloud card Qwen3.8-LiveTranslate-Flash-Realtime (API id qwen3.8-livetranslate-flash-realtime): real-time version of Qwen3.8-LiveTranslate-Flash; multilingual simultaneous audio and video interpretation; understand 60 languages / speak 29; WebSocket realtime endpoint wss://maas.qwencloudapi.com/api-ws/v1/realtime?model=qwen3.8-livetranslate-flash-realtime. QwenCloud limits: Max Input 49K / Max Output 4K / Context 53K; TPM 100K; RPM 10.

Top use-case fit: coding, agents, and build tasks

Agents

Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.

Vision

Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.

Provider price ladder

Compare API pricing across 1 providers for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.

ProviderInput / 1MOutput / 1MRoute
Alibaba Cloud PAI-EAS$7.50$20.00
Serverless

Capabilities

MultimodalAudio

Benchmark peer barsfor Agents

No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.

Migration checks

No linked migration route is available for this model yet.

API versions

Qwen3.8-LiveTranslateqwen3.8-livetranslateQwen3.8-LiveTranslate-Flash-Realtimeqwen3.8-livetranslate-flash-realtime