Aion-3.0-Mini
AionLabs · released Jul 7, 2026
- Type
- Proprietary
- Input
- $0.70
- Output
- $1.40
- Cached
- $0.18
List price · per 1M tokens · AionLabs at 131K context · source ↗
Our take
Written Aug 3, 2026Aion-3.0-Mini is a proprietary text-only model from AionLabs that handles up to 131,072 tokens in a single request. It is positioned as a budget-friendly hosted option, though only two providers currently offer it and no independent quality benchmarks are available.
Pick this for low-cost text-only tasks where a long request limit matters and you do not need open weights. Use it for basic hosted inference when you are comfortable with a proprietary model. Skip it if you need measured quality scores, provider choice, or the transparency of downloadable weights.
The case for it
- 131,072-token request limit, which is long for its price tier.
- Low output cost for a hosted model with six-figure context, among the cheaper options in that class.
The case against it
- No benchmark scores in our data — chat, reasoning, coding and all other capabilities are unverified.
- Only two tracked offers, with no independent throughput measurement on third-party endpoints.
- Proprietary weights with no published parameter count and undisclosed licence terms, leaving transparency gaps against open alternatives.
How good is it?
We hold no score for this model.
We look for every model we track on every board we watch, and none of them has turned up Aion-3.0-Mini — so there is no intelligence, coding, agentic or writing score to show you, not a low one, none.
Or rent it from someone else
Why this differs from the header. The strip above quotes AionLabs's own list price. This is the cheapest live offer at the widest standard context we hold, whoever is serving it — a reseller undercutting a lab is ordinary commerce, not an error.
- per 1M tokens
- $0.70 in / $1.40 out
- Context served
- 131K
- Throughput
- Not measured
| Provider | In / out per 1M tokens | Context | Throughput | Trains on prompts | Logs prompts | Zero retention |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenRouter | $0.70 / $1.40 | 131K | not measured | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
| AionLabs | $0.70 / $1.40 | 131K | 61 tok/s | No | Yes30 days | Unknown |
Across the 2 listings we hold: 1 say they do not train on prompts, 0 say they do and 1 do not say. 0 appear in the zero-retention registry we check; the rest are unknown to us rather than confirmed either way.
What each host's API supports
From the parameter list each endpoint publishes. Streaming is omitted: nothing we hold reports it, for any model.
- ✓
- Supported
- ✗
- Not supported
- Not published
- host gave no parameter list
| Provider | Tool calling | JSON output | Strict schema |
|---|---|---|---|
| OpenRouter | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| AionLabs | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
Tool calling: 2 of 2 listings say yes. JSON output: 2 of 2 listings say yes. Strict schema: 0 of 2 listings say yes, 2 say no.
When we formed this view
Dates behind this page
Prices last checked 9d ago
What we do not know about this model yet
- No board we watch has turned up a score, so we hold no quality figures at all.
- Nothing we hold says whether an endpoint streams, so we do not show it either way.
- 1 of 2 listings do not say whether they train on prompts.
Licence and identifiers
What the licence allowsWe hold no licence record for this model. Inside are the identifiers you need to pull it — its Hugging Face repo where we have one, our slug and a machine-readable card.
Licence
Commercial API terms. We hold no licence record for this model, so there is nothing to summarise here.
Identifiers
- Modality record
- text->text
- Catalogue slug
- aion-labs-aion-3-0-mini