Model comparison

Aion 3.5 vs Claude Opus 4.8

Claude Opus 4.8 has enough public results to be ranked (#9); Aion 3.5 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Aion 3.5 AionLabs

57.9

Unranked Sparse

Claude Opus 4.8 Anthropic

60.7

Rank #9 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Aion 3.5 scores higher in 1 category and Claude Opus 4.8 in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
  • Aion 3.5 is cheaper at $3 / $6 per million input/output tokens, against $5 / $25 for Claude Opus 4.8.
  • Claude Opus 4.8 accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 262K.

Side by side

Aion 3.5 and Claude Opus 4.8 specifications
Aion 3.5Claude Opus 4.8
ProviderAionLabsAnthropic
Noometry Index57.960.7
Released—2026-05-28
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window262K1M
Max output33K128K
Input $ / M tokens$3$5
Output $ / M tokens$6$25
Results tracked165

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Aion 3.5: —, Claude Opus 4.8: 60.2 (#9)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkAion 3.5Claude Opus 4.8
DeepSWE—59%
FrontierCode—46.5%
LMArena WebDev—1556
SciCode—53.5%
GSO—47.1%
WeirdML—82.9%
LMArena Coding—1491
ALE-Bench—1,564

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Aion 3.5: —, Claude Opus 4.8: 47.6 (#10)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkAion 3.5Claude Opus 4.8
APEX-Agents—48.9%
OSWorld 2.0—20.6%
Remote Labor Index—8.3%
τ²-bench Banking—39.7%
DeepResearch Bench—50.2%
PostTrainBench—33.8%
GBAEval—70.9%
GDP.pdf—24%
LMArena Search—1204
Vending-Bench 2—5,787

Reasoning Not comparable

Aion 3.5: —, Claude Opus 4.8: 64.6 (#14)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkAion 3.5Claude Opus 4.8
ARC-AGI-2—72.1%
SimpleBench—64.8%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—88.8%
NYT Connections (extended)—91.1%
ARC-AGI-1—92.5%
CritPt—20.9%
Chess Puzzles—34%
EnigmaEval—23.5%
EBR-Bench—28.6%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1481
Mystery Game Puzzles—36%
DTBench—94.9%
LMCA—57.5%
Surface Evolver Bench—87.5%
Bench to the Future 3—0.14
Epoch Capabilities Index—158.3
ForecastBench—59.9

Math Not comparable

Aion 3.5: —, Claude Opus 4.8: 78.2 (#11)

Knowledge Not comparable

Aion 3.5: —, Claude Opus 4.8: 61.3 (#26)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkAion 3.5Claude Opus 4.8
GPQA Diamond—91%
SimpleQA Verified—53%
LMArena Expert—1501

Multimodal Not comparable

Aion 3.5: —, Claude Opus 4.8: 43.2 (#20)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkAion 3.5Claude Opus 4.8
LMArena Vision—1295
Blueprint-Bench 2—14.5%
Furniture Assembly—42.5%
LMArena Document—1475

Multilingual Not comparable

Aion 3.5: —, Claude Opus 4.8: 55.4 (#31)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkAion 3.5Claude Opus 4.8
LMArena Non-English—1450
LMArena Chinese—1509
LMArena French—1482
LMArena German—1470
LMArena Japanese—1440
LMArena Korean—1432
LMArena Russian—1476
LMArena Spanish—1470

Instruction Following Not comparable

Aion 3.5: —, Claude Opus 4.8: 77.6 (#22)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkAion 3.5Claude Opus 4.8
LMArena Instruction Following—1476

Long Context Not comparable

Aion 3.5: —, Claude Opus 4.8: 45.4 (#37)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkAion 3.5Claude Opus 4.8
LMArena Longer Query—1482

Writing & Preference Aion 3.5 leads

Aion 3.5: 74.9, Claude Opus 4.8: 72.1 (#17)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkAion 3.5Claude Opus 4.8
EQ-Bench Creative Writing19291840
LMArena Text—1460
LMArena Creative Writing—1453
EQ-Bench 4—1281
LMArena Multi-Turn—1476

Frequently asked questions

Is Aion 3.5 better than Claude Opus 4.8?

Claude Opus 4.8 has enough public results to be ranked (#9); Aion 3.5 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Which is cheaper, Aion 3.5 or Claude Opus 4.8?

Aion 3.5 is cheaper. It lists at $3 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens; Claude Opus 4.8 lists at $5 and $25.

Which has the bigger context window?

Claude Opus 4.8 does, with 1M tokens against 262K.

How many benchmarks do Aion 3.5 and Claude Opus 4.8 share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Aion 3.5 has 1 scored results on Noometry and Claude Opus 4.8 has 65.

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