Aion-2.0 vs Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking

Aion-2.0 at $0.920 in and $1.84 out and Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking at $0.460 in and $4.60 out — per million tokens, from the same wallet.

Aion-2.0

AionLabs

0.61¢

for a client proposal

$0.920 in · $1.84 out / 1M

131K context · released 5 months ago

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Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking

Qwen

0.6¢

for a client proposal

$0.460 in · $4.60 out / 1M

131K context · released September 2025

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Asking all both at once — identical prompt, identical context — costs about 1.2¢ for a typical client proposal.

At a glance

Cheapest input: Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking at $0.460 per million tokens.
Cheapest output: Aion-2.0 at $1.84 per million tokens.
Identical context windows: 131K tokens each.

Cost per task

Estimated totals at the rates above. Solid bar is input, lighter bar is output.

Quick code fix

2K in · 500 out

Aion-2.0

0.28¢

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking

0.32¢

Draft a client proposal from notes

5K in · 800 out

Aion-2.0

0.61¢

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking

0.6¢

Context-heavy session (Alyph workspace)

155K in · 4K out

Aion-2.0

needs 155K ctx

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking

needs 155K ctx

Analyze a 50-page legal contract

35K in · 1K out

Aion-2.0

3.4¢

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking

2.1¢

Large architecture refactor

250K in · 3K out

Aion-2.0

needs 250K ctx

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking

needs 250K ctx

Solid part of each bar is input tokens, the lighter part is output. Models that don’t fit a task are marked instead of priced.

Cost vs Token Amount

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Aion-2.0

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking

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Pricing

Aion-2.0

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking

Input / 1M tokens

$0.920

$0.460

Output / 1M tokens

$1.84

$4.60

Cached input / 1M

$0.230

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Specs

Aion-2.0

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking

Provider

AionLabs

Qwen

Released

5 months ago

September 2025

Context window

131K

Max output

33K

Input

Text

Text and Images

Output

Text

Reasoning

Shows its thinking

Knowledge cutoff

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2025-03-31

Try it with real numbers

2K tokens in · 500 tokens out.

Aion-2.0

AionLabs

0.28¢

for this task

67% input · 33% output

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Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking

Qwen

0.32¢

for this task

29% input · 71% output

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All 2, same prompt and context: 0.6¢. That is the entire cost of the comparison.

Your $5 welcome credit covers about 836 of these.

Which should you pick?

On price, Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking is the cheapest of the two on a typical task, at about 0.6¢.

For images or files, Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking can read them directly; Aion-2.0 is text-only.

Or don’t pick. Send the identical prompt to all both, read the answers side by side, and keep the winner. How to run a fair bake-off →

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Questions, answered

Which is cheaper, Aion-2.0 or Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking?

On a typical client proposal (5K tokens in, 800 out): Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking at 0.6¢; Aion-2.0 at 0.61¢. Long prompts can change the order when long-context rates apply.

Which has the largest context window?

They are identical — 131K tokens each, about 190 pages.

Can I run Aion-2.0 and Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking side by side on Alyph?

Yes — that is what Alyph is built for: the identical prompt with identical context to all 2, answers rendered side by side, billed from one wallet. This exact combination costs about 1.2¢ for a typical task.

Ask both at once

Identical prompt, identical context, answers side by side — about 1.2¢ for a typical client proposal. Free to start, with $5 of credit.