Alternatives to Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash

Alibaba's open-weight architecture preview of Qwen4: 125B multimodal MoE with 6B active plus a 51B N-gram table, 262K native context, at $0.16/M input.

Google Gemini Omni Flash: leftover Omni Flash sibling on the live Gemini models page. Not the 2026 Flash default.

Qwen-Image-2.1 is Alibaba's 7B open-weights model that both generates and edits images, including native transparent PNGs and edits from up to ten references.

Alibaba's Qwen-Audio-3.1 stack adds ASR-Next and TTS-Next, with TTS topping the Artificial Analysis TTS leaderboard and API prices cut up to 95%.