OpenAI: o3 Mini

Released Jan 31, 2025

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OpenAI o3-mini is a cost-efficient language model optimized for STEM reasoning tasks, particularly excelling in science, mathematics, and coding. This model supports the `reasoning_effort` parameter, which can be set to...

Best overall rank

#168

▼ 2 vs 7d ago

Total arena votes

433,826

Across 57 (subset, category) entries

Providers on OR

OpenAI

First seen

2026-05-08

72 days tracked

Trend

Pricing

Per token

Input (per 1M): $1.10
Output (per 1M): $4.40
Cache Read (per 1M): $0.550

Per unit

Web search: $0.010/call

Capabilities

Modality

text+file->text

Context

200K tokens

Tokenizer

GPT

Knowledge cutoff

2023-10-31

Max output

100K tokens

Moderation

Moderated

Supported parameters

include_reasoning

max_tokens

reasoning

response_format

seed

structured_outputs

tool_choice

tools

Providers

Provider	Region / Tag	Context	Input/M	Output/M	Uptime 1d	Latency	Quant	Cache
OpenAI	`openai`	200K	$1.10	$4.40	100.00%	-	-	-

Per-category ranks

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Rank	Category	Variant	Elo	Votes
#117	Industry Mathematical	high	1412	1,711
#118	Math	high	1405	1,909
#123	Japanese	high	1316	374
#125	Korean	high	1331	241
#133	Japanese	-	1299	1,323
#139	Industry Mathematical	-	1392	4,379
#140	Coding	high	1435	2,596
#141	Chinese	high	1412	1,181
#147	Expert	high	1397	847
#148	Hard Prompts English	high	1414	2,944
#150	Hard Prompts	high	1401	4,386
#150	Korean	-	1293	1,072
#151	Math	-	1382	4,719
#155	French	high	1371	203
#155	Industry Software And It Services	high	1411	4,338
#156	Instruction Following	high	1366	6,681
#160	German	-	1327	1,281
#162	Coding	-	1416	9,456
#163	German	high	1326	377
#164	Longer Query	high	1373	2,160
#165	Polish	-	1324	2,576
#167	Exclude Ties	high	1330	12,679
#168	Expert	-	1365	2,859
#168	French	-	1356	655
#168	Overall	high	1363	18,589
#168	Spanish	high	1343	126
#170	English	high	1379	11,130
#172	Industry Writing And Literature And Language	high	1341	4,762
#175	Industry Life And Physical And Social Science	high	1372	3,382
#175	Non English	high	1319	7,459
#176	Hard Prompts	-	1370	20,101
#176	Industry Software And It Services	-	1390	16,867
#176	Spanish	-	1327	837
#177	Hard Prompts English	-	1383	11,284
#178	Industry Medicine And Healthcare	high	1368	824
#178	Instruction Following	-	1344	16,957
#178	Longer Query	-	1358	9,225
#180	Multi Turn	high	1345	2,535
#181	Industry Business And Management And Financial Operations	high	1349	1,815
#184	Industry Legal And Government	high	1359	1,023
#184	Overall	-	1348	57,318
#186	Creative Writing	high	1312	3,065
#186	Exclude Ties	-	1307	40,067
#186	Industry Entertainment And Sports And Media	high	1310	3,214
#188	Chinese	-	1361	3,365
#188	Industry Writing And Literature And Language	-	1324	13,435
#189	English	-	1363	30,396
#189	Multi Turn	-	1340	9,489
#189	Russian	high	1328	1,740
#192	Russian	-	1327	4,444
#194	Non English	-	1298	26,916
#199	Industry Entertainment And Sports And Media	-	1301	10,296
#201	Industry Business And Management And Financial Operations	-	1327	7,708
#202	Industry Life And Physical And Social Science	-	1350	9,653
#204	Creative Writing	-	1301	8,182
#205	Industry Medicine And Healthcare	-	1342	3,041
#206	Industry Legal And Government	-	1340	3,634

Provider

Region / Tag

Context

Input/M

Output/M

Uptime 1d

Latency

Quant

Cache

OpenAI

openai

200K

$1.10

$4.40

100.00%

Per-category ranks

Text

Rank	Category	Variant	Elo	Votes
#117	Industry Mathematical	high	1412	1,711
#118	Math	high	1405	1,909
#123	Japanese	high	1316	374
#125	Korean	high	1331	241
#133	Japanese	-	1299	1,323
#139	Industry Mathematical	-	1392	4,379
#140	Coding	high	1435	2,596
#141	Chinese	high	1412	1,181
#147	Expert	high	1397	847
#148	Hard Prompts English	high	1414	2,944
#150	Hard Prompts	high	1401	4,386
#150	Korean	-	1293	1,072
#151	Math	-	1382	4,719
#155	French	high	1371	203
#155	Industry Software And It Services	high	1411	4,338
#156	Instruction Following	high	1366	6,681
#160	German	-	1327	1,281
#162	Coding	-	1416	9,456
#163	German	high	1326	377
#164	Longer Query	high	1373	2,160
#165	Polish	-	1324	2,576
#167	Exclude Ties	high	1330	12,679
#168	Expert	-	1365	2,859
#168	French	-	1356	655
#168	Overall	high	1363	18,589
#168	Spanish	high	1343	126
#170	English	high	1379	11,130
#172	Industry Writing And Literature And Language	high	1341	4,762
#175	Industry Life And Physical And Social Science	high	1372	3,382
#175	Non English	high	1319	7,459
#176	Hard Prompts	-	1370	20,101
#176	Industry Software And It Services	-	1390	16,867
#176	Spanish	-	1327	837
#177	Hard Prompts English	-	1383	11,284
#178	Industry Medicine And Healthcare	high	1368	824
#178	Instruction Following	-	1344	16,957
#178	Longer Query	-	1358	9,225
#180	Multi Turn	high	1345	2,535
#181	Industry Business And Management And Financial Operations	high	1349	1,815
#184	Industry Legal And Government	high	1359	1,023
#184	Overall	-	1348	57,318
#186	Creative Writing	high	1312	3,065
#186	Exclude Ties	-	1307	40,067
#186	Industry Entertainment And Sports And Media	high	1310	3,214
#188	Chinese	-	1361	3,365
#188	Industry Writing And Literature And Language	-	1324	13,435
#189	English	-	1363	30,396
#189	Multi Turn	-	1340	9,489
#189	Russian	high	1328	1,740
#192	Russian	-	1327	4,444
#194	Non English	-	1298	26,916
#199	Industry Entertainment And Sports And Media	-	1301	10,296
#201	Industry Business And Management And Financial Operations	-	1327	7,708
#202	Industry Life And Physical And Social Science	-	1350	9,653
#204	Creative Writing	-	1301	8,182
#205	Industry Medicine And Healthcare	-	1342	3,041
#206	Industry Legal And Government	-	1340	3,634