Aion-3.0-Mini vs MiniMax M1

Aion-3.0-Mini at $0.805 in and $1.61 out and MiniMax M1 at $0.632 in and $2.53 out — per million tokens, from the same wallet.

Aion-3.0-Mini

AionLabs

0.53¢

for a client proposal

$0.805 in · $1.61 out / 1M

131K context · released 1 month ago

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MiniMax M1

MiniMax

0.52¢

for a client proposal

$0.632 in · $2.53 out / 1M

1M context · released June 2025

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Asking all both at once — identical prompt, identical context — costs about 1¢ for a typical client proposal.

At a glance

Cheapest input: MiniMax M1 at $0.632 per million tokens.
Cheapest output: Aion-3.0-Mini at $1.61 per million tokens.
Largest context: MiniMax M1 at 1M tokens — about 1,400 pages.

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-3.0-Mini

0.24¢

MiniMax M1

0.25¢

Draft a client proposal from notes

5K in · 800 out

Aion-3.0-Mini

0.53¢

MiniMax M1

0.52¢

Context-heavy session (Alyph workspace)

155K in · 4K out

Aion-3.0-Mini

needs 155K ctx

MiniMax M1

$0.11

Analyze a 50-page legal contract

35K in · 1K out

Aion-3.0-Mini

3¢

MiniMax M1

2.5¢

Large architecture refactor

250K in · 3K out

Aion-3.0-Mini

needs 250K ctx

MiniMax M1

$0.17

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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80% Input20% Output

Aion-3.0-Mini

MiniMax M1

Adjust the ratio slider to change how output tokens influence the final price for equivalent workloads.

Pricing

Aion-3.0-Mini

MiniMax M1

Input / 1M tokens

$0.805

$0.632

Output / 1M tokens

$1.61

$2.53

Cached input / 1M

$0.207

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Specs

Aion-3.0-Mini

MiniMax M1

Provider

AionLabs

MiniMax

Released

1 month ago

June 2025

Context window

131K

Max output

33K

40K

Input

Text

Output

Text

Reasoning

Shows its thinking

Knowledge cutoff

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2024-06-30

Try it with real numbers

2K tokens in · 500 tokens out.

Aion-3.0-Mini

AionLabs

0.24¢

for this task

67% input · 33% output

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MiniMax M1

MiniMax

0.25¢

for this task

50% input · 50% output

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All 2, same prompt and context: 0.49¢. That is the entire cost of the comparison.

Your $5 welcome credit covers about 1,011 of these.

Which should you pick?

For long documents, MiniMax M1 has the largest context window here — 1M tokens.

On price, MiniMax M1 is the cheapest of the two on a typical task, at about 0.52¢.

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 →

Aion-3.0-Mini pricing →MiniMax M1 pricing →Add Lyria 3 Clip Preview Add Grok 4.20

Questions, answered

Which is cheaper, Aion-3.0-Mini or MiniMax M1?

On a typical client proposal (5K tokens in, 800 out): MiniMax M1 at 0.52¢; Aion-3.0-Mini at 0.53¢. Long prompts can change the order when long-context rates apply.

Which has the largest context window?

MiniMax M1 — 1M tokens, about 1,400 pages.

Can I run Aion-3.0-Mini and MiniMax M1 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¢ for a typical task.

Ask both at once

Identical prompt, identical context, answers side by side — about 1¢ for a typical client proposal. Free to start, with $5 of credit.