OpenAI: GPT-5.3-Codex

OpenAI: GPT-5.3-Codex

openai · Released Feb 24, 2026 Frontier Best for Coding
Intelligence #4 / 523
89.8 Our Score
Speed #143 / 236
76.1 tokens / sec
Input #433 / 523
$1.75 per 1M tokens
Output #476 / 523
$14.00 per 1M tokens
Context #57 / 523
400,000 tokens

Analysis Summary

OpenAI: GPT-5.3-Codex sits in the Frontier tier on our leaderboard, ranked #4 of 523 published models on overall intelligence. At $1.75 input and $14.00 output per 1M tokens, it is among the most expensive on the market. It offers a generous context window for extended reasoning and code review and supports tool use, function calling, vision, and reasoning.

Editorial notes

OpenAI's GPT-5.3-Codex is a world-class coding and reasoning model with outstanding performance across intelligence, coding, and agentic benchmarks, vision support, and a 400K context window — one of the strongest choices available for technically demanding business workflows.

Assessed April 16, 2026

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Performance Profile

Intelligence9.5Technical9.5Value6.5Content8.5
Intelligence 9.5/10
Technical 9.5/10
Content 8.5/10
Value 6.5/10

GPT-5.3-Codex is OpenAI’s most advanced agentic coding model, combining the frontier software engineering performance of GPT-5.2-Codex with the broader reasoning and professional knowledge capabilities of GPT-5.2. It achieves state-of-the-art results..

Capabilities

Tool Use Function Calling Vision

Performance Indices

Source: Artificial Analysis

53.6 Intelligence Index
53.1 Coding Index
69.5 Agentic Index

Benchmark Scores

Intelligence

GPQA Diamond 91.5% Graduate-level scientific reasoning
HLE 39.9% Humanity's Last Exam
SciCode 53.2% Scientific computing

Technical

TerminalBench Hard 53% Agentic terminal tasks
τ²-Bench 86% Conversational agent benchmark

Content

IFBench 75.4% Instruction following
LCR 74% Long-context reasoning

Benchmark data from Artificial Analysis and Hugging Face

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Model Information

OpenRouter ID openai/gpt-5.3-codex
Provideropenai
Release Date February 24, 2026
Context Length400,000 tokens
Max Completion128,000 tokens
Status Active

Pricing

Token Type Cost per 1M tokens Cost per 1K tokens
Input $1.75 $0.001750
Output $14.00 $0.014000

Live Performance

Live endpoint metrics — refreshed every 30 minutes.

99.5%
Avg Uptime
3,711ms
Best Latency (TTFT)
50 tok/s
Best Throughput
2/2
Active Endpoints
Available via: OpenAI, Azure

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