Neither wins outright: AionLabs: Aion 3.5 Mini is the pick when you need tool / function calling, SC117/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-GSQ-RCO-abliterated-GGUF when you need image output.
| Spec | AionLabs: Aion 3.5 Mini | SC117/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-GSQ-RCO-abliterated-GGUF |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Aion Labs | Hugging Face |
| Input price (per 1M tokens) | $0.70 | n/a |
| Output price (per 1M tokens) | $1.40 | n/a |
| Blended price (3:1 input/output) | $0.87 | n/a |
| Cheaper than … of all models we track | 42% | n/a |
| Context window | 262K tokens (~393 pages) | n/a |
| Larger context than … of all models | 47% | n/a |
| Max output per response | 33K tokens (~24,600 words) | n/a |
| Input types | text | text |
| Output types | text | image |
| Free variant | No | No |
| Listed since | 2026-09-23 | n/a |
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 | SC117/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-GSQ-RCO-abliterated-GGUF | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Customer-support chatbot 50,000 conversations — each a 6-turn conversation (1,500 in / 400 out tokens) | $80.50 | n/a | — |
| RAG search over documents 20,000 questions — each a question answered from ~8 retrieved passages (6,000 in / 500 out tokens) | $98.00 | n/a | — |
| 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 | n/a | — |
| Batch summarisation 10,000 documents — each a 6,000-word report summarised to a page (8,000 in / 600 out tokens) | $64.40 | n/a | — |
| 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 | n/a | — |
| Capability | AionLabs: Aion 3.5 Mini | SC117/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-GSQ-RCO-abliterated-GGUF | What it lets you do |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tool / function calling | ✓ Yes | — | call your APIs and run agent loops |
| Structured output (JSON schema) | ✓ Yes | — | return JSON that validates against your schema |
| Reasoning / thinking mode | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes | spend extra tokens thinking before answering hard problems |
| Image input | — | — | 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 | — | ✓ Yes | 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 | — | — | read token confidence for classification and scoring |
From each model's published parameters and input/output types. “—” means not advertised, not proven absent.
Neither wins outright: AionLabs: Aion 3.5 Mini is the pick when you need tool / function calling, SC117/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-GSQ-RCO-abliterated-GGUF when you need image output. In short: AionLabs: Aion 3.5 Mini when you need tool / function calling, you need structured output (JSON schema); SC117/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-GSQ-RCO-abliterated-GGUF when you need image output.
Tool calling — AionLabs: Aion 3.5 Mini: yes, SC117/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-GSQ-RCO-abliterated-GGUF: not advertised. JSON-schema structured output — AionLabs: Aion 3.5 Mini: yes, SC117/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-GSQ-RCO-abliterated-GGUF: not advertised.
Neither accepts image input — both are text-in models.
No free variant is listed for either; both are pay-per-token.
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