AionLabs: Aion-1.0-Mini

Aion-1.0-Mini is a text-only reasoning model from AionLabs with a 128K-token context window and a 32K-token output ceiling. It supports reasoning but does not support tool use, and structured output support is unconfirmed. Because it accepts only text input, use cases involving images, audio, or documents will require a different model. At $0.70 per million input tokens and $1.40 per million output tokens, the pricing sits in the budget tier, which makes it worth considering for cost-sensitive workloads that benefit from reasoning. The significant caveat is that there is currently no independent benchmark coverage, so its actual performance relative to competitors is unproven. Buyers who can run their own evaluations on target tasks may find it worth testing, but those who rely on third-party benchmarks to shortlist models should wait until coverage becomes available.