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Aion-3.0 vs Claude Sonnet 4.6

List-price comparison ·Aion-3.0 details ·Claude Sonnet 4.6 details

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For a typical workload (100,000 requests / mo), Aion-3.0 is the cheapest — 37% less than the priciest here ($600.00/mo vs $960.00/mo).

 Aion-3.0Claude Sonnet 4.6
Input / 1M tokens$3.00$3.00
Output / 1M tokens$6.00$15.00
Typical request (1,200 in + 400 out)$0.006$0.0096
Context window131,072 tokens1M tokens
Max output32,768 tokens128k tokens
Quality score68/10088/100
TierBalancedBalanced
ProviderAionLabsAnthropic

Projected monthly cost

Requests / moAion-3.0Claude Sonnet 4.6
1,000$6.00$9.60
10,000$60.00$96.00
100,000$600.00$960.00
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Aion-3.0

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Claude Sonnet 4.6

Strong price-to-performance for production agents: reliable tool use, structured JSON output, and solid coding ability at roughly a fifth of Opus's cost.

Can still misstep on the hardest multi-step reasoning chains where Opus would succeed — budget for occasional escalation to a flagship model.

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Vendor list rates · per-request examples assume 1,200 input + 400 output tokens.