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o3 — Benchmark Scores, Pricing & Performance Analysis

FLAGSHIPOpenAI
Chatbot Arena ELO
1380
Output Speed
40 tok/s
Input Cost
$2.0/1M
Output Cost
$8.0/1M
Context Window
200K
Max Output
100K
Knowledge Cutoff
Jun 2024
Accepts
image, text, file

o3 by OpenAI demonstrates strong general intelligence, solid coding performance, outstanding mathematical reasoning. View detailed benchmark data including scores across coding, math, reasoning, speed, and cost metrics.

Specifications last checked against the provider on . Benchmark scores carry their own source, linked beside each number.

General Benchmarks

Chatbot Arena ELO
138021st of 74

Human preference ELO from blind head-to-head votes

LMSYS / HuggingFace
MMLU-Pro
84.0%10th of 66

Massive Multitask Language Understanding professional benchmark

HuggingFace Leaderboard
IFEval
92.0%2nd of 25

Strict instruction following accuracy on verifiable constraints

Google Research
SimpleQA
49.4%2nd of 14

Factual accuracy on short, verifiable questions

OpenAI
TruthfulQA
86.0%1st of 13

Resistance to generating false but plausible answers

Papers
MT-Bench
9.51st of 13

Multi-turn conversation quality on 80 curated dialogues

LMSYS

Coding Benchmarks

HumanEval+
90.0%11th of 66

Code generation correctness with extended tests

Papers
Design Arena ELO
107492nd of 120

Human preference ELO for building things — websites, UI, games, charts, SVG

Design Arena (via OpenRouter)
Website Arena ELO
104893rd of 108

Human preference ELO for building a working web page from a brief

Design Arena (via OpenRouter)
LiveCodeBench
70.0%10th of 66

Live competitive programming benchmark

livecodebench.github.io
SWE-bench Verified
69.1%18th of 67

Real-world software engineering task resolution

swebench.com

Math Benchmarks

GSM8K
98.5%3rd of 66

Grade school math word problems

Papers
MATH
96.0%5th of 66

Competition mathematics problem solving

Papers
AIME 2025
98.4%3rd of 17

American Invitational Mathematics Examination — competition math

Papers

Reasoning Benchmarks

ARC-AGI
75.7%2nd of 66

Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus for general intelligence

arcprize.org
GPQA Diamond
83.3%47th of 140

Graduate-level science Q&A by domain experts

Papers
BBH
95.8%1st of 13

Big-Bench Hard — 23 challenging multi-step reasoning tasks

Google Research
Winogrande
94.0%1st of 14

Commonsense reasoning via pronoun resolution

Papers

Speed Benchmarks

Time to First Token
800 ms71st of 92

Latency before first token arrives

Aggregated
Output Speed
40 tok/s85th of 94

Tokens generated per second

Aggregated

Cost Benchmarks

Cached Input Cost
$0.50120th of 136

Cost per 1M cached input tokens — the price that actually applies to a long agent conversation

OpenRouter API
Output Cost
$8.0327th of 413

Cost per 1M output tokens

OpenRouter API
Input Cost
$2.0336th of 413

Cost per 1M input tokens

OpenRouter API

Context Benchmarks

Context Length
200K189th of 451

Maximum context window size

OpenRouter API

Multimodal Benchmarks

MathVista
86.8%1st of 14

Visual mathematical reasoning across diagrams and charts

Papers

Available from 18 providers

The same model costs different amounts depending on who serves it. You can bring your own key for 4 of these — connect it here.

ProviderInput / 1MOutput / 1MCached inContextYour key
Poe$1.8$7.2$0.45200K—
302.AI$2$8—200K—
Abacus$2$8$0.5200K—
Azure$2$8$0.5200KSupported
Azure Cognitive Services$2$8$0.5200K—
Cloudflare AI Gateway$2$8$0.5200K—
DevPass (LLM Gateway)$2$8$0.5200K—
Eden AI$2$8$0.5200K—
Impossibl$2$8$0.5200K—
Kilo Gateway$2$8$0.5200K—
LLM Gateway$2$8$0.5200K—
Merge Gateway$2$8$0.5200K—
NEAR AI Cloud$2$8$0.5200K—
OpenAI$2$8$0.5200KSupported
OpenRouter$2$8$0.5200KSupported
Vercel AI Gateway$2$8$0.5200KSupported
Jiekou.AI$10$40—131K—
AnyAPI———200K—

o3 — Benchmark Scores Overview

Scores normalized to percentage scale for visual comparison. ELO scores mapped to 0-100 range (1100-1500).

o3 — Frequently Asked Questions

How intelligent is o3?

o3 scores 1380 on the Chatbot Arena ELO rating, making it a high-performing AI model. This score is based on blind head-to-head human preference voting.

How much does o3 cost?

o3 costs $2.0 per 1M input tokens and $8.0 per 1M output tokens. This is mid-range pricing for its capability level.

How fast is o3?

o3 generates output at 40 tokens per second, which is slower, prioritizing quality over speed compared to other models. The time to first token is 800 ms.

How good is o3 at coding?

o3 achieves 69.1% on SWE-bench Verified, demonstrating strong real-world software engineering capability. This benchmark tests the model's ability to resolve actual GitHub issues.

How good is o3 at math and reasoning?

o3 scores 96.0% on the MATH benchmark (competition-level mathematics). It also achieves 83.3% on GPQA Diamond, a graduate-level science reasoning benchmark.

What is the context window of o3?

o3 has a context window of 200K tokens. This determines how much text, conversation history, and code the model can process in a single request.

Who created o3?

o3 was created by OpenAI. It is classified as a flagship model in our catalogue.

Is o3 open source?

No, o3 is a proprietary model. It is available through OpenAI's API and compatible providers.