Model comparison

Aion 3.5 vs GPT-5.6 Sol

GPT-5.6 Sol has enough public results to be ranked (#6); 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

GPT-5.6 Sol OpenAI

64.4

Rank #6 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Aion 3.5 scores higher in 1 category and GPT-5.6 Sol in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
  • Aion 3.5 is cheaper at $3 / $6 per million input/output tokens, against $4 / $20 for GPT-5.6 Sol.
  • GPT-5.6 Sol accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 262K.

Side by side

Aion 3.5 and GPT-5.6 Sol specifications
Aion 3.5GPT-5.6 Sol
ProviderAionLabsOpenAI
Noometry Index57.964.4
Released—2026-07-09
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window262K1.05M
Max output33K128K
Input $ / M tokens$3$4
Output $ / M tokens$6$20
Results tracked164

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Aion 3.5: —, GPT-5.6 Sol: 61.1 (#7)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkAion 3.5GPT-5.6 Sol
DeepSWE—72.7%
FrontierCode—47.5%
CursorBench—41.7%
LMArena WebDev—1619
FrontierSWE—32.2%
SciCode—57.1%
WeirdML—89.4%
LMArena Coding—1493
MirrorCode—20%
ALE-Bench—2,177

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Aion 3.5: —, GPT-5.6 Sol: 50.2 (#7)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkAion 3.5GPT-5.6 Sol
APEX-Agents—51.4%
OSWorld 2.0—27.3%
τ²-bench Banking—46.9%
PostTrainBench—36.2%
BALROG—60%
GBAEval—52.6%
GDP.pdf—30.7%
LMArena Search—1257
Vending-Bench 2—9,619

Reasoning Not comparable

Aion 3.5: —, GPT-5.6 Sol: 74.7 (#6)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkAion 3.5GPT-5.6 Sol
ARC-AGI-2—92.5%
SimpleBench—71.7%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—67%
NYT Connections (extended)—93.8%
ARC-AGI-1—97.5%
CritPt—32.3%
Chess Puzzles—64%
EnigmaEval—37.1%
EBR-Bench—44.8%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1481
Mystery Game Puzzles—58%
DTBench—96%
LMCA—59.2%
Surface Evolver Bench—93.1%
Bench to the Future 3—0.14
Epoch Capabilities Index—161.99

Math Not comparable

Aion 3.5: —, GPT-5.6 Sol: 85.5 (#7)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkAion 3.5GPT-5.6 Sol
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—89.1%
FrontierMath Tier 4—82.9%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—100%
ProofBench—83%
LMArena Math—1472
FrontierMath Erdős—0%

Knowledge Not comparable

Aion 3.5: —, GPT-5.6 Sol: 64.3 (#16)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkAion 3.5GPT-5.6 Sol
GPQA Diamond—93.5%
SimpleQA Verified—69.7%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—12.4%
LMArena Expert—1517

Multimodal Not comparable

Aion 3.5: —, GPT-5.6 Sol: 48.9 (#8)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkAion 3.5GPT-5.6 Sol
LMArena Vision—1281
Blueprint-Bench 2—33.6%
Furniture Assembly—56.7%
LMArena Document—1483

Multilingual Not comparable

Aion 3.5: —, GPT-5.6 Sol: 55.4 (#32)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkAion 3.5GPT-5.6 Sol
LMArena Non-English—1450
LMArena Chinese—1523
LMArena French—1475
LMArena German—1476
LMArena Japanese—1475
LMArena Korean—1434
LMArena Russian—1466
LMArena Spanish—1449

Instruction Following Not comparable

Aion 3.5: —, GPT-5.6 Sol: 77.8 (#16)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkAion 3.5GPT-5.6 Sol
LMArena Instruction Following—1480

Long Context Not comparable

Aion 3.5: —, GPT-5.6 Sol: 45.3 (#42)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkAion 3.5GPT-5.6 Sol
LMArena Longer Query—1479

Writing & Preference Aion 3.5 leads

Aion 3.5: 74.9, GPT-5.6 Sol: 73.5 (#12)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkAion 3.5GPT-5.6 Sol
EQ-Bench Creative Writing19291972
LMArena Text—1456
LMArena Creative Writing—1450
EQ-Bench 4—1250
LMArena Multi-Turn—1456

Frequently asked questions

Is Aion 3.5 better than GPT-5.6 Sol?

GPT-5.6 Sol has enough public results to be ranked (#6); Aion 3.5 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Which is cheaper, Aion 3.5 or GPT-5.6 Sol?

Aion 3.5 is cheaper. It lists at $3 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens; GPT-5.6 Sol lists at $4 and $20.

Which has the bigger context window?

GPT-5.6 Sol does, with 1.05M tokens against 262K.

How many benchmarks do Aion 3.5 and GPT-5.6 Sol share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Aion 3.5 has 1 scored results on Noometry and GPT-5.6 Sol has 64.

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