Pairwise benchmark snapshot · Aug 17, 2026noindex (thin pair)
In this head-to-head showdown, AionLabs: Aion-3.0-Mini is more budget-friendly at $1.4/1M per 1M output tokens. Review the complete breakdown below to determine which model best fits your performance and budget requirements.
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Original Claude 3 flagship. Kept so opus 3 vs later Opus and vs GPT-4o still resolve.
Single model data
No latency data
$1.4 / 1M output
Relative percentile scores computed across all active models in the benchmark catalog.
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Category wins across reasoning intelligence, generation speed, and token cost.
Preference Elo, Coding proficiency, SWE-bench & LiveBench accuracy
Generation throughput and time to first token responsiveness
Cost per million tokens and max context window length
| Benchmark | AionLabs: Aion-3.0-Mini | Claude 3 Opus | Advantage Delta |
|---|---|---|---|
| Preference Elo | — | — | |
| LiveBench | — | — | |
| SWE-bench | — | — | |
| GPQA Diamond | — | — | |
| Time to first token | — | — | |
| Output speed | — | 48 tok/s | — |
| Input price | $0.7/1M | AionLabs: Aion-3.0-Mini (+$14.3/1M) | |
| Output price | $1.4/1M | AionLabs: Aion-3.0-Mini (+$73.6/1M) | |
| Context window | Claude 3 Opus (+69k) |
Simulate monthly production API costs in USD (US Dollar).
AionLabs: Aion-3.0-Mini is estimated to save $1,604.50/month ($19,254/year).
Need SWE-bench on both sides.
Lower output list price ($1.4/1M).
Need TTFT on both sides.
Larger window (200k).
Claude 3 Opus is the side marked multimodal in the catalog.
| Target Workload | Recommended Pick | Evaluation Rationale |
|---|---|---|
| Repo / coding agents | insufficient data | Need SWE-bench on both sides. |
| High-volume chat | AionLabs: Aion-3.0-Mini | Lower output list price ($1.4/1M). |
| Voice / low-latency UI | insufficient data | Need TTFT on both sides. |
| Long-document RAG | Claude 3 Opus | Larger window (200k). |
| Screenshots / vision | Claude 3 Opus | Claude 3 Opus is the side marked multimodal in the catalog. |
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