OpenAI · Frontier
GPT 5.3 Codex
Coding-focused GPT-5.3 variant with optimized routing.
- Reasoning
- Tools
- Vision
- Structured output
- PDF input
- Input
- Text, Images
- Output
- Text
- Reasoning effort
- low · medium · high · xhigh
- Discovery tier
- Frontier
Pricing
USD per 1M tokens- Input
- $1.75
- Output
- $14.00
- Cache read
- $0.18
Reference prices as published by the model provider. API example
Specifications
- Context window
- 400K
- Max output
- 128K
- Average output (7 days)
- 281 tokens
- Longer than 29% of 473 models
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Public evaluations
Benchmarks
Independent evaluation results, with how each score ranks among the models in the Noumen catalog.
Intelligence Index
32.5
Tested at xhigh reasoning effort
Better than 76% of 326 scored models
Agentic work
AA-Briefcasev1.1
868 EloAgentic knowledge work, rated head to head
Better than 36% of 166 scored models
Document reasoning
AA-LCRv1.1
83.3%Reasoning across long documents
Better than 92% of 309 scored models
Reasoning and knowledge
Humanity’s Last Exam
42.5%Expert-level questions across academic fields
Better than 84% of 323 scored models
GPQA Diamond
91.5%Graduate-level science questions
Better than 85% of 291 scored models
IFBench
75.4%Following precise output instructions
Better than 83% of 215 scored models
Legacy evaluations
Terminal-Bench Hard
53.0%Earlier terminal task suite
Better than 92% of 212 scored models
τ²-Bench Telecom
86.0%Tool use in a customer-support simulation
Better than 70% of 214 scored models
AA-LCR (unversioned)
83.3%Long-context reasoning, earlier grading
Better than 92% of 309 scored models
Scores from Artificial Analysis, updated Oct 26, 2026. GPT 5.3 Codex was tested at xhigh reasoning effort; compare scores measured at the same effort.Artificial Analysis
Live routing data
Performance and reliability
Recent averages across requests routed for this model. Your own speed depends on prompt length, reasoning effort and load.
- Prompt cache hits
- 82.3%
- About $0.45 per 1M input tokens with caching
- Request success (24h)
- 98.5%
- Reliable
Cache hits are the share of input tokens recently served from a prompt cache across all requests. They are not a forecast of your own hit rate.
- Healthy (98% or more)
- Degraded (90–98%)
- Down (under 90%)
- No requests
Developers
Use it through the API
Noumen’s API is OpenAI-compatible: any Chat Completions client works with a base URL and a key.
curl https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $NOUMEN_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "openai/gpt-5.3-codex",
"reasoning_effort": "medium",
"messages": [{ "role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace." }]
}'import os
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(base_url="https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1", api_key=os.environ["NOUMEN_API_KEY"])
reply = client.chat.completions.create(
model="openai/gpt-5.3-codex",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace."}],
)
print(reply.choices[0].message.content)OpenAI
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