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OpenAI Proprietary Released Jan 30, 2025 Updated

o3-mini

ToolsGuide Scores, rankings, test results and price.

Model summary

  • Text #199 / 416

    240 / 1,000

    ToolsGuide Score· votes 238, tests 242

  • Price per 1M tokens

    No listed price

Summary

o3-mini is OpenAI's model, released Jan 30, 2025. It's ranked in 1 category and does best at text: #199 of 416, with a ToolsGuide Score of 240 against a median of 235.

It has published results on 25 tests and has the top score on 3 of them, including MATH and LiveBench.

Specifications

Creator
OpenAI
Licence
Proprietary
Released
Jan 30, 2025
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Output price
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Tests reported
25
Settings ranked
o3-mini-high, o3-mini

Model comparison

Against the ten best text models.

Text score

ToolsGuide Score out of 1,000 · Higher is better

Input price

USD per 1M input tokens · Lower is better

Leaderboards

Where o3-mini sits among the top 20 in each category.

Text

#199 of 416 · ToolsGuide Score out of 1,000, where 1,000 is a flawless model

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By task

Scored from votes on each kind of prompt alone, on the same 1,000-point scale.

Against its nearest rivals

Text prompts by kind · ToolsGuide Score from votes · hover for values

Text

o3-mini-high · hover a bar for its rank

Test results

Every test o3-mini has a published result on, out of 100%, with its rank among the models that took it.

  • GPQA

    #115 / 256

    Graduate-level science questions written to be hard to look up.

    77.2%

    Self-reported

  • SWE-Bench Verified

    #103 / 120

    Fixing real bugs in real GitHub projects, checked by the projects' own tests.

    49.3%

    Self-reported

  • MMLU

    #28 / 103

    Massive Multitask Language Understanding benchmark testing knowledge across 57 diverse subjects including STEM, humanities, social sciences, and professional domains

    86.9%

    Self-reported

  • MATH

    #1 / 71

    MATH dataset contains 12,500 challenging competition mathematics problems from AMC 10, AMC 12, AIME, and other mathematics competitions. Each problem includes full step-by-step solutions and spans multiple difficulty levels (1-5) across seven mathematical subjects including Prealgebra, Algebra, Number Theory, Counting and Probability, Geometry, Intermediate Algebra, and Precalculus.

    97.9%

    Self-reported

  • IFEval

    #5 / 70

    Instruction-Following Evaluation (IFEval) benchmark for large language models, focusing on verifiable instructions with 25 types of instructions and around 500 prompts containing one or more verifiable constraints

    93.9%

    Self-reported

  • AIME 2024

    #12 / 54

    American Invitational Mathematics Examination 2024, consisting of 30 challenging mathematical reasoning problems from AIME I and AIME II competitions. Each problem requires an integer answer between 0-999 and tests advanced mathematical reasoning across algebra, geometry, combinatorics, and number theory. Used as a benchmark for evaluating mathematical reasoning capabilities in large language models at Olympiad-level difficulty.

    87.3%

    Self-reported

  • SimpleQA

    #38 / 47

    SimpleQA is a factuality benchmark developed by OpenAI that measures the short-form factual accuracy of large language models. The benchmark contains 4,326 short, fact-seeking questions that are adversarially collected and designed to have single, indisputable answers. Questions cover diverse topics from science and technology to entertainment, and the benchmark also measures model calibration by evaluating whether models know what they know.

    15.0%

    Self-reported

  • Multi-Challenge

    #31 / 41

    MultiChallenge is a realistic multi-turn conversation evaluation benchmark that challenges frontier LLMs across four key categories: instruction retention (maintaining instructions throughout conversations), inference memory (recalling and connecting details from previous turns), reliable versioned editing (adapting to evolving instructions during collaborative editing), and self-coherence (avoiding contradictions in responses). The benchmark evaluates models on sustained, contextually complex dialogues across diverse topics including travel planning, technical documentation, and professional communication.

    39.9%

    Self-reported

  • LiveBench

    #1 / 38

    LiveBench is a challenging, contamination-limited LLM benchmark that addresses test set contamination by releasing new questions monthly based on recently-released datasets, arXiv papers, news articles, and IMDb movie synopses. It comprises tasks across math, coding, reasoning, language, instruction following, and data analysis with verifiable, objective ground-truth answers.

    84.6%

    Self-reported · In the text score

  • MGSM

    #2 / 31

    MGSM (Multilingual Grade School Math) is a benchmark of grade-school math problems. Contains 250 grade-school math problems manually translated from the GSM8K dataset into ten typologically diverse languages: Spanish, French, German, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Thai, Swahili, Bengali, and Telugu. Evaluates multilingual mathematical reasoning capabilities.

    92.0%

    Self-reported

  • Multi-IF

    #4 / 25

    Multi-IF benchmarks LLMs on multi-turn and multilingual instruction following. It expands upon IFEval by incorporating multi-turn sequences and translating English prompts into 7 other languages, resulting in 4,501 multilingual conversations with three turns each. The benchmark reveals that current leading LLMs struggle with maintaining accuracy in multi-turn instructions and shows higher error rates for non-Latin script languages.

    79.5%

    Self-reported

  • TAU-bench Retail

    #21 / 25

    A benchmark for evaluating tool-agent-user interaction in retail environments. Tests language agents' ability to handle dynamic conversations with users while using domain-specific API tools and following policy guidelines. Evaluates agents on tasks like order cancellations, address changes, and order status checks through multi-turn conversations.

    57.6%

    Self-reported

  • TAU-bench Airline

    #21 / 23

    Part of τ-bench (TAU-bench), a benchmark for Tool-Agent-User interaction in real-world domains. The airline domain evaluates language agents' ability to interact with users through dynamic conversations while following domain-specific rules and using API tools. Agents must handle airline-related tasks and policies reliably.

    32.4%

    Self-reported

  • Aider-Polyglot

    #9 / 22

    A coding benchmark that evaluates LLMs on 225 challenging Exercism programming exercises across C++, Go, Java, JavaScript, Python, and Rust. Models receive two attempts to solve each problem, with test error feedback provided after the first attempt if it fails. The benchmark measures both initial problem-solving ability and capacity to edit code based on error feedback, providing an end-to-end evaluation of code generation and editing capabilities across multiple programming languages.

    66.7%

    Self-reported

  • FrontierMath

    #15 / 17

    A benchmark of hundreds of original, exceptionally challenging mathematics problems crafted and vetted by expert mathematicians, covering most major branches of modern mathematics from number theory and real analysis to algebraic geometry and category theory.

    9.2%

    Self-reported

  • Graphwalks BFS <128k

    #11 / 13

    A graph reasoning benchmark that evaluates language models' ability to perform breadth-first search (BFS) operations on graphs with context length under 128k tokens, returning nodes reachable at specified depths.

    51.0%

    Self-reported

  • Graphwalks parents <128k

    #8 / 12

    A graph reasoning benchmark that evaluates language models' ability to find parent nodes in graphs with context length under 128k tokens, requiring understanding of graph structure and edge relationships.

    58.3%

    Self-reported

  • COLLIE

    #2 / 11

    COLLIE is a grammar-based framework for systematic construction of constrained text generation tasks. It allows specification of rich, compositional constraints across diverse generation levels and modeling challenges including language understanding, logical reasoning, and semantic planning. The COLLIE-v1 dataset contains 2,080 instances across 13 constraint structures.

    98.7%

    Self-reported

  • Aider-Polyglot Edit

    #3 / 10

    A challenging multi-language coding benchmark that evaluates models' code editing abilities across C++, Go, Java, JavaScript, Python, and Rust. Contains 225 of Exercism's most difficult programming problems, selected as problems that were solved by 3 or fewer out of 7 top coding models. The benchmark focuses on code editing tasks and measures both correctness of solutions and proper edit format usage. Designed to re-calibrate evaluation scales so top models score between 5-50%.

    60.4%

    Self-reported

  • OpenAI-MRCR: 2 needle 128k

    #9 / 9

    Multi-round Co-reference Resolution (MRCR) benchmark for evaluating an LLM's ability to distinguish between multiple needles hidden in long context. Models are given a long, multi-turn synthetic conversation and must retrieve a specific instance of a repeated request, requiring reasoning and disambiguation skills beyond simple retrieval.

    18.7%

    Self-reported

  • ComplexFuncBench

    #6 / 7

    ComplexFuncBench is a benchmark designed to evaluate large language models' capabilities in handling complex function calling scenarios. It encompasses multi-step and constrained function calling tasks that require long-parameter filling, parameter value reasoning, and managing contexts up to 128k tokens. The benchmark includes 1,000 samples across five real-world scenarios.

    17.6%

    Self-reported

  • Internal API instruction following (hard)

    #3 / 7

    Internal API instruction following (hard) benchmark - specific documentation not found in official sources

    50.0%

    Self-reported

  • SWE-Lancer (IC-Diamond subset)

    #6 / 6

    SWE-Lancer (IC-Diamond subset) is a benchmark of real-world freelance software engineering tasks from Upwork, ranging from $50 bug fixes to $32,000 feature implementations. It evaluates AI models on independent engineering tasks using end-to-end tests triple-verified by experienced software engineers, and includes managerial tasks where models choose between technical implementation proposals.

    7.4%

    Self-reported

  • Multilingual MMLU

    #1 / 5

    MMLU-ProX is a comprehensive multilingual benchmark covering 29 typologically diverse languages, building upon MMLU-Pro. Each language version consists of 11,829 identical questions enabling direct cross-linguistic comparisons. The benchmark evaluates large language models' reasoning capabilities across linguistic and cultural boundaries through challenging, reasoning-focused questions with 10 answer choices.

    80.7%

    Self-reported

  • SWE-Lancer

    #4 / 4

    A benchmark for evaluating large language models on real-world freelance software engineering tasks from Upwork. Contains over 1,400 tasks valued at $1 million USD total, ranging from $50 bug fixes to $32,000 feature implementations. Includes both independent engineering tasks graded via end-to-end tests and managerial tasks assessed against original engineering managers' choices.

    18.0%

    Self-reported