Choose AionLabs: Aion 3.5 Mini if…
- cost matters at scale — it is 27% cheaper on a typical 3:1 input/output mix ($80.50 vs $105 a month for 50,000 support chats)
AionLabs: Aion 3.5 Mini vs Elorian: Glimpse
Neither wins outright: AionLabs: Aion 3.5 Mini is the pick when cost matters at scale, Elorian: Glimpse when you need image input.
Key numbers
| Spec | AionLabs: Aion 3.5 Mini | Elorian: Glimpse |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Aion Labs | Elorian |
| Input price (per 1M tokens) | $0.70 | $0.60 |
| Output price (per 1M tokens) | $1.40 | $3.00 |
| Blended price (3:1 input/output) | $0.87 | $1.20 |
| Cheaper than … of all models we track | 42% | 36% |
| Context window | 262K tokens (~393 pages) | 262K tokens (~393 pages) |
| Larger context than … of all models | 47% | 47% |
| Max output per response | 33K tokens (~24,600 words) | 256K tokens (~192,000 words) |
| Input types | text | text, image, video |
| Output types | text | text |
| Free variant | No | No |
| Listed since | 2026-09-23 | 2026-10-17 |
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What it costs for real workloads
Monthly cost at list price for five common workloads. Token counts per unit are stated so you can scale them to your own traffic. A workload that does not fit a model's context window is marked rather than priced.
| Workload (per month) | AionLabs: Aion 3.5 Mini | Elorian: Glimpse | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Customer-support chatbot 50,000 conversations — each a 6-turn conversation (1,500 in / 400 out tokens) | $80.50 | $105 | AionLabs: Aion 3.5 Mini saves $24.50 |
| RAG search over documents 20,000 questions — each a question answered from ~8 retrieved passages (6,000 in / 500 out tokens) | $98.00 | $102 | AionLabs: Aion 3.5 Mini saves $4.00 |
| Coding / tool-using agent 2,000 tasks — each a multi-step task with tool calls and file context (60,000 in / 6,000 out tokens) | $101 | $108 | AionLabs: Aion 3.5 Mini saves $7.20 |
| Batch summarisation 10,000 documents — each a 6,000-word report summarised to a page (8,000 in / 600 out tokens) | $64.40 | $66.00 | AionLabs: Aion 3.5 Mini saves $1.60 |
| Long-document analysis 500 documents — each a 150-page contract or codebase read in one pass (100,000 in / 2,000 out tokens) | $36.40 | $33.00 | Elorian: Glimpse saves $3.40 |
Capabilities side by side
| Capability | AionLabs: Aion 3.5 Mini | Elorian: Glimpse | What it lets you do |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tool / function calling | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes | call your APIs and run agent loops |
| Structured output (JSON schema) | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes | return JSON that validates against your schema |
| Reasoning / thinking mode | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes | spend extra tokens thinking before answering hard problems |
| Image input | — | ✓ Yes | read screenshots, charts and scanned pages |
| Audio input | — | — | take speech or audio directly |
| File / PDF input | — | — | accept documents without your own parsing step |
| Image output | — | — | generate images, not just text |
| Built-in web search | — | — | answer from live web results |
| Seed (reproducible sampling) | — | — | repeat a generation for tests and evals |
| Log-probabilities | — | ✓ Yes | read token confidence for classification and scoring |
From each model's published parameters and input/output types. “—” means not advertised, not proven absent.
Price history
- AionLabs: Aion 3.5 Mini: price unchanged since we started tracking it on 2026-09-24.
- Elorian: Glimpse: price unchanged since we started tracking it on 2026-10-18.
Which should you choose?
Choose Elorian: Glimpse if…
- you need image input — to read screenshots, charts and scanned pages; AionLabs: Aion 3.5 Mini does not advertise it
- you need log-probabilities — to read token confidence for classification and scoring; AionLabs: Aion 3.5 Mini does not advertise it
- you generate long outputs in one go — up to 256K tokens (about 192,000 words) per response
Frequently asked questions
Is AionLabs: Aion 3.5 Mini better than Elorian: Glimpse?
Neither wins outright: AionLabs: Aion 3.5 Mini is the pick when cost matters at scale, Elorian: Glimpse when you need image input. In short: AionLabs: Aion 3.5 Mini when cost matters at scale; Elorian: Glimpse when you need image input, you need log-probabilities, you generate long outputs in one go.
Which is cheaper, AionLabs: Aion 3.5 Mini or Elorian: Glimpse?
AionLabs: Aion 3.5 Mini is cheaper: $0.87 vs $1.20 per 1M tokens at a typical 3:1 input/output mix, 27% less. For 50,000 support conversations a month that is $80.50 against $105.
How much do AionLabs: Aion 3.5 Mini and Elorian: Glimpse cost per million tokens?
AionLabs: Aion 3.5 Mini costs $0.70 per 1M input tokens and $1.40 per 1M output tokens; Elorian: Glimpse costs $0.60 input and $3.00 output. Output tokens are billed separately, so long answers shift the gap.
Which has the bigger context window, AionLabs: Aion 3.5 Mini or Elorian: Glimpse?
Both take 262K tokens per request — roughly 393 pages of text.
Do AionLabs: Aion 3.5 Mini and Elorian: Glimpse support function calling and JSON output?
Tool calling — AionLabs: Aion 3.5 Mini: yes, Elorian: Glimpse: yes. JSON-schema structured output — AionLabs: Aion 3.5 Mini: yes, Elorian: Glimpse: yes.
Can AionLabs: Aion 3.5 Mini or Elorian: Glimpse read images?
Only Elorian: Glimpse accepts image input; AionLabs: Aion 3.5 Mini is text-only for input.
Is AionLabs: Aion 3.5 Mini or Elorian: Glimpse free to use?
No free variant is listed for either; both are pay-per-token.
What is the maximum output length of AionLabs: Aion 3.5 Mini and Elorian: Glimpse?
AionLabs: Aion 3.5 Mini can write up to 33K tokens (about 24,600 words) per response; Elorian: Glimpse up to 256K (about 192,000 words).
When were AionLabs: Aion 3.5 Mini and Elorian: Glimpse released?
AionLabs: Aion 3.5 Mini was listed on 2026-09-23; Elorian: Glimpse on 2026-10-17.
About the two models
AionLabs: Aion 3.5 Mini
Aion 3.5 Mini is a multi-model roleplaying and storytelling system from AionLabs, built on the GLM family of models. It is the smaller, lower-cost sibling of Aion 3.5 and uses...
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Glimpse is a multimodal visual reasoning model from Elorian, built for visual understanding and complex visual reasoning in the physical world. It reasons directly over images and video rather than...
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