OpenAI: o3 Mini
Analysis Summary
OpenAI: o3 Mini sits in the Specialist tier on our leaderboard, ranked #131 of 556 published models on overall intelligence. At $1.10 input and $4.40 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, and reasoning.
Editorial notes
OpenAI o3 Mini offers strong reasoning benchmarks, tool use, function calling, and a 200K context from a trusted provider, though its coding and agentic indices trail the current frontier.
Assessed May 14, 2026
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Performance Profile
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..
Capabilities
Performance Indices
Source: Artificial Analysis
Benchmark Scores
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Benchmark data from Artificial Analysis and Hugging Face
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Model Information
Pricing
| Token Type | Cost per 1M tokens | Cost per 1K tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $1.10 | $0.001100 |
| Output | $4.40 | $0.004400 |
Live Performance
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