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Aion 3.5 vs Claude Sonnet 4.6
List-price comparison ·Aion 3.5 details ·Claude Sonnet 4.6 details
For a typical workload (100,000 requests / mo), Aion 3.5 is the cheapest — 37% less than the priciest here ($600.00/mo vs $960.00/mo).
| Aion 3.5 | Claude 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 window | 262,144 tokens | 1M tokens |
| Max output | 32,768 tokens | 128k tokens |
| Quality score | 70/100 | 88/100 |
| Tier | Balanced | Balanced |
| Provider | AionLabs | Anthropic |
Projected monthly cost
| Requests / mo | Aion 3.5 | Claude Sonnet 4.6 |
|---|---|---|
| 1,000 | $6.00 | $9.60 |
| 10,000 | $60.00 | $96.00 |
| 100,000 | $600.00 | $960.00 |
Aion 3.5
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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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