Alibaba speech APIs - verified October 18, 2026

Alibaba speech API pricing and models

Alibaba Model Studio: 4 speech-to-text models and 4 text-to-speech models, read from the provider's own pages on October 18, 2026. Its lowest speech-to-text rate converts to $0.126 an hour (Qwen3-ASR-Flash). No model here has a scheduled shutdown date.

Read from alibabacloud.com. Compare every speech API

Speech-to-text: 4
Text-to-speech: 4
Realtime voice: 0
Retiring: 0

Speech-to-text

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Qwen3-ASR-Flash

Speech-to-text - qwen3-asr-flash

Price (provider's unit): $0.000035/second (International)
“| qwen3-asr-flash | International | $0.000035/second | 36,000 seconds (10 hours) |”
alibabacloud.com
Converted $/hour (our arithmetic): $0.126converted from $0.000035 per second
Languages: Not stated
Streaming: Yes
“Qwen-Audio-3.0-ASR-Flash/Fun-ASR-Flash/Qwen3-ASR-Flash support streaming output: they return intermediate results as recognition proceeds.”
alibabacloud.com
Max audio: 10 MB and 5 minutes per file
“Qwen-Audio-3.0-ASR-Flash/Fun-ASR-Flash/Qwen3-ASR-Flash: a single audio file can be up to 10 MB in size and 5 minutes in duration.”
alibabacloud.com
Status: Not stated

qwen3-asr-flash-filetrans is the same price; asynchronous transcription supports files up to 12 hours and 2 GB.

Qwen3-ASR-Flash-Realtime

Speech-to-text - qwen3-asr-flash-realtime

Price (provider's unit): $0.000090/second (International)
“| qwen3-asr-flash-realtime | International | $0.000090/second | 36,000 seconds (10 hours) |”
alibabacloud.com
Converted $/hour (our arithmetic): $0.324converted from $0.000090 per second
Languages: Not stated
Streaming: Not stated
Max audio: Not stated
Status: Not stated

Qwen-Audio-3.1-ASR-Flash

Speech-to-text - qwen-audio-3.1-asr-flash

Price (provider's unit): 0.15 USD/million input tokens; 0.47 USD/million output tokens (International)
“| qwen-audio-3.1-asr-flash | International | 0.15 USD/million tokens | 0.47 USD/million tokens | 1,000,000 tokens |”
alibabacloud.com
Converted $/hour (our arithmetic): Not convertedPriced per token
Languages: Not stated
Streaming: Not stated
Max audio: Not stated
Status: Not stated

Fun-ASR (audio file recognition)

Speech-to-text - fun-asr

Price (provider's unit): $0.000035/second (International)
“| fun-asr | International | $0.000035/second | 36,000 seconds (10 hours) |”
alibabacloud.com
Converted $/hour (our arithmetic): $0.126converted from $0.000035 per second
Languages: Not stated
Streaming: Not stated
Max audio: 12 hours and 2 GB per file (asynchronous)
“Asynchronous transcription supports a single audio file of up to 12 hours in duration and up to 2 GB in size.”
alibabacloud.com
Status: Not stated

Features

speaker diarization, timestamps
“Configurable features include speaker diarization, sensitive-word filtering, and sentence-level or word-level timestamps.”
alibabacloud.com

fun-asr-realtime is $0.00009/second.

Text-to-speech

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Qwen3-TTS-Flash

Text-to-speech - qwen3-tts-flash

Price (provider's unit): $0.1 per 10,000 characters (International)
“| qwen3-tts-flash | International | $0.1 | 110,000 characters |”
alibabacloud.com
Languages: Not stated
Streaming: Not stated
Limit per request: Not stated
Status: Not stated

Billed by input characters; output is free. Each Chinese character counts as 2 characters.

Qwen3-TTS-Flash-Realtime

Text-to-speech - qwen3-tts-flash-realtime

Price (provider's unit): $0.13 per 10,000 characters (International)
“| qwen3-tts-flash-realtime | International | $0.13 |”
alibabacloud.com
Languages: Not stated
Streaming: Not stated
Limit per request: Not stated
Status: Not stated

Realtime (streaming) variant per its name; streaming not separately documented on the fetched page.

Qwen-Audio-3.1-TTS-Flash

Text-to-speech - qwen-audio-3.1-tts-flash

Price (provider's unit): USD 0.23 per million input tokens; USD 1.87 per million output tokens (Singapore)
“| qwen-audio-3.1-tts-flash | USD 0.23 | USD 1.87 | 1,000,000 tokens |”
alibabacloud.com
Languages: Not stated
Streaming: Not stated
Limit per request: Not stated
Status: Not stated

CosyVoice v3 Flash

Text-to-speech - cosyvoice-v3-flash

Price (provider's unit): $0.13 per 10,000 characters (International)
“| cosyvoice-v3-flash | International | $0.13 | 10,000 characters |”
alibabacloud.com
Languages: Not stated
Streaming: Not stated
Limit per request: Not stated
Status: Not stated

cosyvoice-v3-plus is $0.26 per 10,000 characters.

FAQ

How much does Alibaba speech-to-text cost?

Qwen3-ASR-Flash: $0.000035/second (International). Qwen3-ASR-Flash-Realtime: $0.000090/second (International). Qwen-Audio-3.1-ASR-Flash: 0.15 USD/million input tokens; 0.47 USD/million output tokens (International). Fun-ASR (audio file recognition): $0.000035/second (International). Prices are in Alibaba's own units as of October 18, 2026.

How much does Alibaba text-to-speech cost?

Qwen3-TTS-Flash: $0.1 per 10,000 characters (International). Qwen3-TTS-Flash-Realtime: $0.13 per 10,000 characters (International). Qwen-Audio-3.1-TTS-Flash: USD 0.23 per million input tokens; USD 1.87 per million output tokens (Singapore). CosyVoice v3 Flash: $0.13 per 10,000 characters (International). Prices are in Alibaba's own units as of October 18, 2026.

Sources

Verified 2026-10-18 from each provider's own pricing pages and model docs; every quote was string-matched against the page that day. Prices are shown in the provider's own unit. Values marked derived were counted by us or taken from Azure's Retail Prices API, not from a pricing page. Prices change without notice; check the linked source before you commit a budget to one.

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