Qwen3.8-LiveTranslate
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
- Family
- Qwen3.8
- Released
- 2026-09-19
- Context
- 53k
- Max output
- 4,000
- Openness
- Proprietary
- License
- ProprietaryCommercial use: conditional
- Weights
- Not released
- Code
- Unknown
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
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Vision
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Provider price ladder
Compare API pricing across 1 providers for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.
| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Route |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alibaba Cloud PAI-EAS | $7.50 | $20.00 | Serverless |
Capabilities
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API versions
Qwen3.8-LiveTranslateqwen3.8-livetranslateQwen3.8-LiveTranslate-Flash-Realtimeqwen3.8-livetranslate-flash-realtimeCheapest of 1 route · Alibaba Cloud PAI-EAS