vs
0:3
overall capability wins (0 ties across 3 scored). o3-pro leads overall.
- Reasoning0:1
- Pricing1:2
- Speed1:1
- Specs0:2
Verdict
o3-pro edges reasoning & knowledge; o3-pro offers ~24.4x larger context (200K vs 8K); o3-pro allows ~12.2x more max output (100K vs 8K).
- o3-pro edges reasoning & knowledge
- o3-pro offers ~24.4x larger context (200K vs 8K)
- o3-pro allows ~12.2x more max output (100K vs 8K)
Cost for 1M in + 250K out
Illustrative chat workload at primary-provider list prices.
- GPT-4
- $45
- o3-pro
- $40
o3-pro is about 1.1x cheaper on this workload.
Price per 1M tokens
Full comparison
Organization
OpenAI
OpenAI
Family
GPT-4 / o-series
GPT-4 / o-series
License
Proprietary
Proprietary
Open weights
No
No
Release
Mar 14, 2023
Jun 10, 2025
Knowledge cutoff
-
-
API / provider
OpenAI
OpenAI
Modalities
text → text
text, image → text
Specs
Context window
8K
200K
Max output
8K
100K
Parameters
—
—
Pricing
Input $/1M
$30
$20
Output $/1M
$60
$80
Blended $/1M (3∶1)
$37.50
$35
Speed
tok/s
35
40
TTFT (s)
0.8
2.5
Reasoning
MMLU-Pro
56.2
—
GPQA Diamond
34.9
84.5
Humanity's Last Exam
—
—
AIME 2025
—
—
MATH-500
56.8
—
Humanity's Last Exam (with tools)
—
—
AA-Omniscience Accuracy
21.0
—
AA-LCR v1.1
—
—
CritPt
—
—
MMMU-Pro
—
—
IFBench
33.2
—
Chartography
—
—
Chartography (With Tools)
—
—
Coding
SWE-bench Verified
—
—
SWE-bench Pro
—
—
SWE-bench Multilingual
—
—
LiveCodeBench
—
—
Terminal-Bench 2.1
—
—
Aider Polyglot
—
84.9
Terminal-Bench 3
—
—
BigCodeBench
—
—
SciCode
—
—
CursorBench
—
—
SWE-Rebench
—
—
NL2Repo-Bench
—
—
DeepSWE
—
—
WebDev Arena
—
—
Terminal-Bench 4.0
—
—
CursorBench 4.0
—
—
FrontierCode v1.1 (Main)
—
—
Arena
LMArena Elo
1,288
—
| Metric | GPT-4 | o3-pro | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identity | |||
| Organization | OpenAI | OpenAI | — |
| Family | GPT-4 / o-series | GPT-4 / o-series | — |
| License | Proprietary | Proprietary | — |
| Open weights | No | No | — |
| Release | Mar 14, 2023 | Jun 10, 2025 | — |
| Knowledge cutoff | - | - | — |
| API / provider | OpenAI | OpenAI | — |
| Modalities | text → text | text, image → text | — |
| Specs | |||
| Context window | 8K | 200K | B +192K |
| Max output | 8K | 100K | B +92K |
| Parameters | — | — | — |
| Pricing | |||
| Input $/1M | $30 | $20 | B +$10 |
| Output $/1M | $60 | $80 | A +$20 |
| Blended $/1M (3∶1) | $37.50 | $35 | B +$2.50 |
| Speed | |||
| tok/s | 35 | 40 | B +5.00 |
| TTFT (s) | 0.8 | 2.5 | A +1.70 |
| Reasoning | |||
| MMLU-Pro | 56.2 | — | — |
| GPQA Diamond | 34.9 | 84.5 | B +49.6 pts |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | — | — |
| AIME 2025 | — | — | — |
| MATH-500 | 56.8 | — | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam (with tools) | — | — | — |
| AA-Omniscience Accuracy | 21.0 | — | — |
| AA-LCR v1.1 | — | — | — |
| CritPt | — | — | — |
| MMMU-Pro | — | — | — |
| IFBench | 33.2 | — | — |
| Chartography | — | — | — |
| Chartography (With Tools) | — | — | — |
| Coding | |||
| SWE-bench Verified | — | — | — |
| SWE-bench Pro | — | — | — |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | — | — | — |
| LiveCodeBench | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | — | — | — |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 84.9 | — |
| Terminal-Bench 3 | — | — | — |
| BigCodeBench | — | — | — |
| SciCode | — | — | — |
| CursorBench | — | — | — |
| SWE-Rebench | — | — | — |
| NL2Repo-Bench | — | — | — |
| DeepSWE | — | — | — |
| WebDev Arena | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| CursorBench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| FrontierCode v1.1 (Main) | — | — | — |
| Arena | |||
| LMArena Elo | 1,288 | — | — |
GPT-4
- Context
- 8K / 8K out
- Parameters
- —
- Price
- $30 / $60
- Speed
- 35 tok/s · 0.8s TTFT
- Modalities
- text → text
- License
- Proprietary
Original GPT-4 (gpt-4-0613) — 8K-context text flagship that defined the 2023 API era before Turbo / 4o.
o3-pro
- Context
- 200K / 100K out
- Parameters
- —
- Price
- $20 / $80
- Speed
- 40 tok/s · 2.5s TTFT
- Modalities
- text, image → text
- License
- Proprietary
Maximum o3 reasoning tier for hardest STEM and multi-step problems at premium $20/$80 rates.
Benchmark charts
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