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Aion 3.5 Mini aion-labs
Release timeline
Stages observed by the nightly radar: announced → API only → weights public → served by third parties. Each entry carries the source it was seen at.
- 2026-09-23 · API only source seeded from the earliest dated observation when first seen · observed 2026-10-07 20:20 UTC
- next · Next expected: additional third-party providers (closed weights; none expected on Hugging Face)
Description
Aion 3.5 Mini is a multi-model roleplaying and storytelling system from AionLabs, built on the GLM family of models. It is the smaller, lower-cost sibling of Aion 3.5 and uses...
via OpenRouter listing · observed 2026-10-24 21:26 UTC. The listing text is the provider's own description, not an assessment.
Where to run 1 providers · 1 endpoints
Hosted endpoints observed for Aion 3.5 Mini, sorted by input price (USD per million tokens). Each row names its observer and date; prices change daily, so check the source before quoting. Cheapest observed input price: $0.70/M.
| Provider | Model ref | Context | Quant | $/M in | $/M out | tok/s | TTFT | Tools | Status | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AionLabs openrouter | aion-labs/aion-3.5-mini | 256K | unknown | $0.70 | $1.40 | — | — | yes | live | 2026-10-24 |
No third-party providers observed beyond the lab's own endpoints. Cache-read price $0.18/M (source, observed 2026-10-24).
Facts
| Context length | 262,144 tokens (256K) · OpenRouter listing |
|---|---|
| Modalities | text → text |
| Max completion tokens | 32,768 |
| Supported parameters | include_reasoning, max_tokens, reasoning, reasoning_effort, response_format, temperature, tool_choice, tools, top_p |
| Openness | Closed weights · closed lab |
| Stage | API only |
| Confidence | medium |
| Pricing (USD per M tokens) |
in $0.70 · out $1.40 · cache read $0.18 OpenRouter list price (cheapest live endpoint) · source · observed 2026-10-24 21:26 UTC |
Open alternatives 5
Nearest open-weights models by modality, context and price on this watch list. Not a quality ranking.
| Model | Org | Params | Context | $/M in | License | Why it is here |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DeepSeek-R1 | deepseek-ai | 684B | 160K | $0.70 | mit | closest by rank, context and price |
| Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct | meta-llama | 8.03B | — | — | llama3 | closest by rank, context and price |
| GLM-5 | zai-org | 754B | 198K | $0.60 | mit | similar context (203K), cheaper input price ($0.6/M vs $0.7/M) |
| Llama-3.1-8B | meta-llama | 8.03B | — | — | llama3.1 | closest by rank, context and price |
| DeepSeek-R1-0528 | deepseek-ai | 685B | 160K | $0.50 | mit | cheaper input price ($0.5/M vs $0.7/M) |
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Sources
- openrouter aion-labs/aion-3.5-mini · observed 2026-10-24 21:26 UTC
Radar run: 2026-10-25 06:51 UTC · Last verified 2026-10-25 06:51 UTC