Aion 3.0 Mini vs Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct
Prices checked
Aion 3.0 Mini and Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct split the 5 rounds this table counts: the maker's two prices, the cheapest price, the maker's blended price and context. The weighting you pick decides the rest.
Aion 3.0 Mini
131k context · tool calling
$0.87/M tokensOpenRouter's own price · $0.50 per 1,000 pages
Alibaba CloudQwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct
131k context · tool calling · open weights
$0.25/M tokensCheapest price, at Alibaba Cloud (China) · $0.12 per 1,000 pages
Maker's price in (lower wins)
$0.70/M
$0.50/M
Maker's price out (lower wins)
$1.40/M
$2/M
Cheapest price (lower wins)
none below the maker
$0.25/M at Alibaba Cloud (China)
Maker's price, blended (lower wins)
$0.87/M
$0.88/M
Cost per 1,000 pages (lower wins)
$0.50
$0.12
Context
131k tokens
131k tokens
Open weights
no
yes
Tool calling
yes
yes
Structured output
no
not published
Reads images
no
no
Reasoning
yes
no
Released
14 May 2026
1 Sept 2025
Providers selling it
7
25
Price we measure against
OpenRouter
the maker's own
Trains on your prompts (no is better)
no provider to check
not published
Providers selling both · 5
Kilo Gateway$0.88 / $0.34
Nous Portal$0.88 / $0.34
OpenRouter$0.88 / $0.34
NanoGPT$0.88 / $0.35
TrustedRouter$0.92 / $0.36
Aion 3.0 Mini, then Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct, per million tokens.
Go further
Add a third or fourth model, or change the weighting, in the tool.
What moved this week
LLM Gateway · 18% dearer · $0.15 / $1.50 $0.15 / $1.20
io.net Intelligence · 7% dearer · $0.12 / $1.26 $0.11 / $1.19
Merge Gateway · 39% dearer · $0.10 / $1.10 $0.14 / $0.57- Kilo Gateway · 2% cheaper · 9¢ / $1.10 $0.10 / $1.10
- Nous Portal · 2% cheaper · 9¢ / $1.10 $0.10 / $1.10
- OpenRouter · 2% cheaper · 9¢ / $1.10 $0.10 / $1.10
- NanoGPT · 2% dearer · $0.10 / $1.10 9¢ / $1.10
AI/ML API · 6% dearer ·
$0.21 / $1.65 $0.20 / $1.56
Frequently asked
- Which is cheaper, Aion 3.0 Mini or Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct?
- Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct, at $0.25 per million tokens against $0.87 for Aion 3.0 Mini, blended 3 in : 1 out, read on 21 Oct 2026.
- Where is each one cheapest?
- Aion 3.0 Mini: nobody sells it below OpenRouter's own price with a stated reason, so $0.87 is the number to beat. Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct: $0.25 at Alibaba Cloud (China).
- Can I buy both from one provider?
- Yes. 5 providers sell both: Kilo Gateway, Nous Portal, OpenRouter, NanoGPT, TrustedRouter. The cheapest of them for the two together is Kilo Gateway.
- Which holds more context?
- Both hold 131k tokens in one call.
Prices exclude tax, read 21 Oct 2026 from each provider's own catalog. They are per M tokens, blended 3 in : 1 out, and a page is 600 tokens in and 60 out. Bars are scaled to the larger value in each row.
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