vs
0:2
overall capability wins (2 ties across 4 scored). o3-pro leads overall.
- Reasoning0:1
- Coding0:1
- Pricing3:0
- Speed2:0
Verdict
o3-pro leads coding (widest gap: +31.1 on Aider); o3-mini is ~18.2x cheaper on a blended token basis than o3-pro.
- o3-pro leads coding (widest gap: +31.1 on Aider)
- o3-mini is ~18.2x cheaper on a blended token basis than o3-pro
Cost for 1M in + 250K out
Illustrative chat workload at primary-provider list prices.
- o3-mini
- $2.20
- o3-pro
- $40
o3-mini is about 18.2x 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
Jan 31, 2025
Jun 10, 2025
Knowledge cutoff
-
-
API / provider
OpenAI
OpenAI
Modalities
text → text
text, image → text
Specs
Context window
200K
200K
Max output
100K
100K
Parameters
—
—
Pricing
Input $/1M
$1.10
$20
Output $/1M
$4.40
$80
Blended $/1M (3∶1)
$1.93
$35
Speed
tok/s
100
40
TTFT (s)
0.6
2.5
Reasoning
MMLU-Pro
79.1
—
GPQA Diamond
74.8
84.5
Humanity's Last Exam
7.9
—
AIME 2025
—
—
MATH-500
97.3
—
Humanity's Last Exam (with tools)
—
—
AA-Omniscience Accuracy
—
—
AA-LCR v1.1
—
—
CritPt
—
—
MMMU-Pro
—
—
IFBench
—
—
Chartography
—
—
Chartography (With Tools)
—
—
Coding
SWE-bench Verified
—
—
SWE-bench Pro
—
—
SWE-bench Multilingual
—
—
LiveCodeBench
71.7
—
Terminal-Bench 2.1
—
—
Aider Polyglot
53.8
84.9
Terminal-Bench 3
—
—
BigCodeBench
—
—
SciCode
39.9
—
CursorBench
—
—
SWE-Rebench
—
—
NL2Repo-Bench
—
—
DeepSWE
—
—
WebDev Arena
—
—
Terminal-Bench 4.0
—
—
CursorBench 4.0
—
—
FrontierCode v1.1 (Main)
—
—
Arena
LMArena Elo
1,348
—
| Metric | o3-mini | o3-pro | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identity | |||
| Organization | OpenAI | OpenAI | — |
| Family | GPT-4 / o-series | GPT-4 / o-series | — |
| License | Proprietary | Proprietary | — |
| Open weights | No | No | — |
| Release | Jan 31, 2025 | Jun 10, 2025 | — |
| Knowledge cutoff | - | - | — |
| API / provider | OpenAI | OpenAI | — |
| Modalities | text → text | text, image → text | — |
| Specs | |||
| Context window | 200K | 200K | tie |
| Max output | 100K | 100K | tie |
| Parameters | — | — | — |
| Pricing | |||
| Input $/1M | $1.10 | $20 | A +$18.90 |
| Output $/1M | $4.40 | $80 | A +$75.60 |
| Blended $/1M (3∶1) | $1.93 | $35 | A +$33.08 |
| Speed | |||
| tok/s | 100 | 40 | A +60 |
| TTFT (s) | 0.6 | 2.5 | A +1.90 |
| Reasoning | |||
| MMLU-Pro | 79.1 | — | — |
| GPQA Diamond | 74.8 | 84.5 | B +9.7 pts |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 7.9 | — | — |
| AIME 2025 | — | — | — |
| MATH-500 | 97.3 | — | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam (with tools) | — | — | — |
| AA-Omniscience Accuracy | — | — | — |
| AA-LCR v1.1 | — | — | — |
| CritPt | — | — | — |
| MMMU-Pro | — | — | — |
| IFBench | — | — | — |
| Chartography | — | — | — |
| Chartography (With Tools) | — | — | — |
| Coding | |||
| SWE-bench Verified | — | — | — |
| SWE-bench Pro | — | — | — |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | — | — | — |
| LiveCodeBench | 71.7 | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | — | — | — |
| Aider Polyglot | 53.8 | 84.9 | B +31.1 pts |
| Terminal-Bench 3 | — | — | — |
| BigCodeBench | — | — | — |
| SciCode | 39.9 | — | — |
| CursorBench | — | — | — |
| SWE-Rebench | — | — | — |
| NL2Repo-Bench | — | — | — |
| DeepSWE | — | — | — |
| WebDev Arena | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| CursorBench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| FrontierCode v1.1 (Main) | — | — | — |
| Arena | |||
| LMArena Elo | 1,348 | — | — |
o3-mini
- Context
- 200K / 100K out
- Parameters
- —
- Price
- $1.10 / $4.40
- Speed
- 100 tok/s · 0.6s TTFT
- Modalities
- text → text
- License
- Proprietary
Earlier o-series mini - still useful for math-heavy workloads on a budget.
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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