Aion-3.0-Mini vs DeepSeek V3.2 Exp
DeepSeek V3.2 Exp costs 3.4x less per output token than Aion-3.0-Mini ($0.41 vs $1.40 per million). Updated October 22, 2026; no benchmark has tested both models yet.
- Coding
- No data
- Overall
- No data
- Output $/M
- $1.40
- Coding
- No data
- Overall
- No data
- Output $/M
- $0.41
Aion-3.0-Mini or DeepSeek V3.2 Exp: which to pick
Neither model has a coding score yet, so the two cannot be ranked on coding.
Compare them on price, context and the boards below.
No benchmark has tested both yet. Aion-3.0-Mini has none yet; DeepSeek V3.2 Exp on Aider polyglot, LMArena WebDev and LiveCodeBench (Artificial Analysis run). Compare them on price and context instead.
Which one for your work
Each card is decided by one number both models carry. Where only one has it, the card says so and makes no call.
Coding
Vibe Coding Index, six public coding benchmarks
No call
Neither has a coding score yet.
One side not measured
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
No call
Only DeepSeek V3.2 Exp has a AA Intelligence Index result, 16.6.
Directional only
Web design
Design Arena: websites
No call
Only DeepSeek V3.2 Exp has a Design Arena: websites result, 1178.
Directional only
Long documents
Listed context window
DeepSeek V3.2 Exp
DeepSeek V3.2 Exp takes 164K tokens against 131K.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
DeepSeek V3.2 Exp
Aion-3.0-Mini $0.0014, DeepSeek V3.2 Exp $0.0005 per turn.
List prices
At a glance
- Coding index
- Aion-3.0-Mini not benchmarked, DeepSeek V3.2 Exp not benchmarked.
- Widest category
- None yet: no category has been tested on both models.
- Widest single gap
- None yet: no benchmark has tested both models.
- Output price
- Aion-3.0-Mini $1.40 against DeepSeek V3.2 Exp $0.41 per million output tokens, 3.4x apart.
- Context window
- Aion-3.0-Mini takes 131K tokens, DeepSeek V3.2 Exp 164K.
Benchmark by benchmark
Every board either model has a result on, a category to a fold; bars are each result on a 0 to 100 scale. Only one model is measured on each, so no row names a leader.
CodingDirectional onlySix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index8 boards measured
| Benchmark | Aion-3.0-Mini | DeepSeek V3.2 Exp | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aider polyglot | Not measured | 74.2% | Only DeepSeek V3.2 Exp measured |
| LMArena WebDev | Not measured | 1272 | Only DeepSeek V3.2 Exp measured |
| LiveCodeBench (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 78.9% | Only DeepSeek V3.2 Exp measured |
| Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 31.1% | Only DeepSeek V3.2 Exp measured |
| WeirdML | Not measured | 39.5% | Only DeepSeek V3.2 Exp measured |
| LMArena Text: coding | Not measured | 1438 | Only DeepSeek V3.2 Exp measured |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | Not measured | 1438 | Only DeepSeek V3.2 Exp measured |
| LMArena WebDev: HTML | Not measured | 1281 | Only DeepSeek V3.2 Exp measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 31 boards here | |||
IntelligenceDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index2 boards measured
| Benchmark | Aion-3.0-Mini | DeepSeek V3.2 Exp | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | Not measured | 16.6 | Only DeepSeek V3.2 Exp measured |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | Not measured | 144.9 | Only DeepSeek V3.2 Exp measured |
Agentic workDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index3 boards measured
| Benchmark | Aion-3.0-Mini | DeepSeek V3.2 Exp | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| τ²-Bench Telecom | Not measured | 33.9% | Only DeepSeek V3.2 Exp measured |
| TheAgentCompany | Not measured | 42.9% | Only DeepSeek V3.2 Exp measured |
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard (BFCL) | Not measured | 56.7% | Only DeepSeek V3.2 Exp measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 38 boards here | |||
ReasoningDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index6 boards measured
| Benchmark | Aion-3.0-Mini | DeepSeek V3.2 Exp | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 79.7% | Only DeepSeek V3.2 Exp measured |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 14.9% | Only DeepSeek V3.2 Exp measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | Not measured | 1429 | Only DeepSeek V3.2 Exp measured |
| LMArena Text: expert | Not measured | 1422 | Only DeepSeek V3.2 Exp measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | Not measured | 1444 | Only DeepSeek V3.2 Exp measured |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | Not measured | 52.2% | Only DeepSeek V3.2 Exp measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 16 boards here | |||
MathDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index4 boards measured
| Benchmark | Aion-3.0-Mini | DeepSeek V3.2 Exp | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Math Index | Not measured | 87.7 | Only DeepSeek V3.2 Exp measured |
| AIME 2025 (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 87.7% | Only DeepSeek V3.2 Exp measured |
| LMArena Text: math | Not measured | 1422 | Only DeepSeek V3.2 Exp measured |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | Not measured | 1433 | Only DeepSeek V3.2 Exp measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 9 boards here | |||
KnowledgeDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index5 boards measured
| Benchmark | Aion-3.0-Mini | DeepSeek V3.2 Exp | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU Pro (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 85.0% | Only DeepSeek V3.2 Exp measured |
| LMArena Text: science | Not measured | 1443 | Only DeepSeek V3.2 Exp measured |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | Not measured | 1468 | Only DeepSeek V3.2 Exp measured |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | Not measured | 1419 | Only DeepSeek V3.2 Exp measured |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | Not measured | 1412 | Only DeepSeek V3.2 Exp measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 13 boards here | |||
Web designDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index7 boards measured
| Benchmark | Aion-3.0-Mini | DeepSeek V3.2 Exp | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: websites | Not measured | 1178 | Only DeepSeek V3.2 Exp measured |
| Design Arena: UI components | Not measured | 1164 | Only DeepSeek V3.2 Exp measured |
| Design Arena: game dev | Not measured | 1144 | Only DeepSeek V3.2 Exp measured |
| Design Arena: data viz | Not measured | 1152 | Only DeepSeek V3.2 Exp measured |
| Design Arena: 3D | Not measured | 1148 | Only DeepSeek V3.2 Exp measured |
| Design Arena: all code categories | Not measured | 1170 | Only DeepSeek V3.2 Exp measured |
| Design Arena: SVG | Not measured | 1031 | Only DeepSeek V3.2 Exp measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 2 boards here | |||
GeneralDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index24 boards measured
| Benchmark | Aion-3.0-Mini | DeepSeek V3.2 Exp | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| IFBench | Not measured | 54.1% | Only DeepSeek V3.2 Exp measured |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | Not measured | 72.3% | Only DeepSeek V3.2 Exp measured |
| DTBench | Not measured | 87.7% | Only DeepSeek V3.2 Exp measured |
| LMCA | Not measured | 29.1% | Only DeepSeek V3.2 Exp measured |
| Fiction.LiveBench | Not measured | 83.3% | Only DeepSeek V3.2 Exp measured |
| CL-bench | Not measured | 13.2% | Only DeepSeek V3.2 Exp measured |
| CL-bench Life | Not measured | 9.5% | Only DeepSeek V3.2 Exp measured |
| LMArena Text | Not measured | 1425 | Only DeepSeek V3.2 Exp measured |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | Not measured | 1401 | Only DeepSeek V3.2 Exp measured |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | Not measured | 1404 | Only DeepSeek V3.2 Exp measured |
| LMArena Text: English | Not measured | 1441 | Only DeepSeek V3.2 Exp measured |
| LMArena Text: non-English | Not measured | 1404 | Only DeepSeek V3.2 Exp measured |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | Not measured | 1461 | Only DeepSeek V3.2 Exp measured |
| LMArena Text: German | Not measured | 1440 | Only DeepSeek V3.2 Exp measured |
| LMArena Text: Japanese | Not measured | 1331 | Only DeepSeek V3.2 Exp measured |
| LMArena Text: Korean | Not measured | 1372 | Only DeepSeek V3.2 Exp measured |
| LMArena Text: French | Not measured | 1434 | Only DeepSeek V3.2 Exp measured |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | Not measured | 1441 | Only DeepSeek V3.2 Exp measured |
| LMArena Text: Russian | Not measured | 1412 | Only DeepSeek V3.2 Exp measured |
| LMArena Text: Polish | Not measured | 1435 | Only DeepSeek V3.2 Exp measured |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | Not measured | 1422 | Only DeepSeek V3.2 Exp measured |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | Not measured | 1418 | Only DeepSeek V3.2 Exp measured |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | Not measured | 1407 | Only DeepSeek V3.2 Exp measured |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | Not measured | 1407 | Only DeepSeek V3.2 Exp measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 22 boards here | |||
What each workload costs
Three fixed token mixes at each model's listed price, so per-token rates become a bill.
Chat turn
1K input + 500 output tokens
DeepSeek V3.2 Exp costs less
Repository review
50K input + 3K output tokens
DeepSeek V3.2 Exp costs less
Agent loop
200K input + 10K output tokens
DeepSeek V3.2 Exp costs less
Listed OpenRouter rates, without cache or batch discounts. A workload that does not fit a model's context window would need splitting.
Specification differences
The leading value in a row is marked; a row with a missing value names no leader. Our two rows are marked in red.
| Specification | AionLabs Aion-3.0-Mini | DeepSeek V3.2 Exp |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | Aion Labs | DeepSeek |
| Weights | No public weights listed | Open weights |
| Released | July 7, 2026 | September 29, 2025 |
| Context window | 131K | 164K |
| Input $/Mtok | $0.70 | $0.27 |
| Output $/Mtok | $1.40 | $0.41 |
| Coding index | Not benchmarked | Not benchmarked |
| Independent measurements behind it | 0 | 1 |
| Cost per solved task | Not computable | Not computable |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is Aion-3.0-Mini better than DeepSeek V3.2 Exp for coding?
Neither model has a coding score yet, so the two cannot be ranked on coding. Compare them on price, context and the boards below.
Which is cheaper, Aion-3.0-Mini or DeepSeek V3.2 Exp?
Aion-3.0-Mini costs $0.70 per million input tokens and $1.40 per million output tokens; DeepSeek V3.2 Exp costs $0.27 and $0.41. Cost per solved task is known for neither of them.
Which has the bigger context window, Aion-3.0-Mini or DeepSeek V3.2 Exp?
DeepSeek V3.2 Exp, with 164K tokens against 131K.
Has any benchmark tested both Aion-3.0-Mini and DeepSeek V3.2 Exp?
No benchmark has tested both yet. Aion-3.0-Mini has none yet; DeepSeek V3.2 Exp on Aider polyglot, LMArena WebDev and LiveCodeBench (Artificial Analysis run). Compare them on price and context instead. Data as of October 22, 2026.