Model comparison

Aion 3.5 vs Grok 4.6

Grok 4.6 has enough public results to be ranked (#21); Aion 3.5 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

Aion 3.5 AionLabs

58.1

Unranked Sparse

Grok 4.6 xAI

56.9

Rank #21 Confirmed

Summary

  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Aion 3.5 leads 74.9 to 62.3.
  • Grok 4.6 is cheaper at $2 / $6 per million input/output tokens, against $3 / $6 for Aion 3.5.
  • Grok 4.6 accepts more context: 500K tokens versus 262K.

Side by side

Aion 3.5 and Grok 4.6 specifications
Aion 3.5Grok 4.6
ProviderAionLabsxAI
Noometry Index58.156.9
Released—2026-08-12
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window262K500K
Max output33K500K
Input $ / M tokens$3$2
Output $ / M tokens$6$6
Results tracked149

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Aion 3.5: —, Grok 4.6: 58.5 (#16)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkAion 3.5Grok 4.6
DeepSWE—67.5%
FrontierCode—48%
CursorBench—41.4%
LMArena WebDev—1617
FrontierSWE—25.3%
SciCode—56.5%
WeirdML—67.3%
LMArena Coding—1465
ALE-Bench—1,508

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Aion 3.5: —, Grok 4.6: 39.4 (#27)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkAion 3.5Grok 4.6
APEX-Agents—65.3%
GDP.pdf—17.2%
Vending-Bench 2—9,047

Reasoning Not comparable

Aion 3.5: —, Grok 4.6: 61.4 (#20)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkAion 3.5Grok 4.6
ARC-AGI-2—67.1%
SimpleBench—75.9%
NYT Connections (extended)—80%
ARC-AGI-1—87.5%
CritPt—19.7%
Chess Puzzles—40%
EBR-Bench—30.5%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1447
Mystery Game Puzzles—34%
DTBench—97.3%
LMCA—48.5%
Epoch Capabilities Index—156.44

Math Not comparable

Aion 3.5: —, Grok 4.6: 67.0 (#24)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkAion 3.5Grok 4.6
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—66%
FrontierMath Tier 4—31.7%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—99.2%
ProofBench—51%
LMArena Math—1423

Knowledge Not comparable

Aion 3.5: —, Grok 4.6: 63.3 (#20)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkAion 3.5Grok 4.6
GPQA Diamond—94%
SimpleQA Verified—49.3%
LMArena Expert—1467

Multimodal Not comparable

Aion 3.5: —, Grok 4.6: 43.6 (#23)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkAion 3.5Grok 4.6
LMArena Vision—1263
Blueprint-Bench 2—33.2%
Furniture Assembly—40%
LMArena Document—1452

Multilingual Not comparable

Aion 3.5: —, Grok 4.6: 53.0 (#74)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkAion 3.5Grok 4.6
LMArena Non-English—1420
LMArena Chinese—1480
LMArena French—1461
LMArena German—1431
LMArena Japanese—1376
LMArena Korean—1397
LMArena Russian—1422
LMArena Spanish—1404

Instruction Following Not comparable

Aion 3.5: —, Grok 4.6: 75.4 (#63)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkAion 3.5Grok 4.6
LMArena Instruction Following—1431

Long Context Not comparable

Aion 3.5: —, Grok 4.6: 44.5 (#66)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkAion 3.5Grok 4.6
LMArena Longer Query—1454

Writing & Preference Aion 3.5 leads

Aion 3.5: 74.9, Grok 4.6: 62.3 (#80)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkAion 3.5Grok 4.6
LMArena Text—1428
LMArena Creative Writing—1428
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1929—
LMArena Multi-Turn—1425

Frequently asked questions

Is Aion 3.5 better than Grok 4.6?

Grok 4.6 has enough public results to be ranked (#21); Aion 3.5 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Which is cheaper, Aion 3.5 or Grok 4.6?

Grok 4.6 is cheaper. It lists at $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens; Aion 3.5 lists at $3 and $6.

Which has the bigger context window?

Grok 4.6 does, with 500K tokens against 262K.

How many benchmarks do Aion 3.5 and Grok 4.6 share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Aion 3.5 has 1 scored results on Noometry and Grok 4.6 has 49.

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