OpenAI · Efficient
OpenAI o3-mini (High)
OpenAI's o3-mini reasoning model with reasoning effort set to high.
- Reasoning
- Tools
- Structured output
- Input
- Text
- Output
- Text
- Reasoning effort
- low · medium · high
- Discovery tier
- Efficient
Pricing
USD per 1M tokens- Input
- $1.10
- Output
- $4.40
- Cache read
- $0.55
Reference prices as published by the model provider. API example
Specifications
- Context window
- 200K
- Max output
- 100K
Side by side
OpenAI o3-mini (High) compared
Specifications, prices, speed and benchmark scores next to each other. Benchmarks below show every compared model too.
| OpenAI o3-mini (High)OpenAIThis model | GPT 6 SolOpenAIRemove | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI | OpenAI |
| Discovery tier | Efficient | Frontier |
| Added | Jan 1, 2024 | Sep 22, 2026 |
| Limits | ||
| Context window | 200K | 1.05MBest |
| Max output | 100K | 128KBest |
| Average output | — | 315 tokens |
| Pricing, USD per 1M tokens | ||
| Input | $1.10Best | $2.00 |
| Output | $4.40Best | $10.00 |
| Cache read | $0.55 | $0.20Best |
| Cache write | — | $2.50 |
| Performance | ||
| Throughput | — | 212.1 tok/s |
| Time to first token | — | 3.1 s |
| Request success (24h) | — | 100.0% |
| Benchmark indexes | ||
| Intelligence Index | 12.5 | 39.8Best |
| Capabilities | ||
| Reasoning | Yes | Yes |
| Tools | Yes | Yes |
| Vision | No | Yes |
| Structured output | Yes | Yes |
| PDF input | No | Yes |
| Reasoning effort | low, medium, high | none, low, medium, high, xhigh, max |
Public evaluations
Benchmarks
Independent evaluation results, with how each score ranks among the models in the Noumen catalog.
- OpenAI o3-mini (High)
- GPT 6 Sol
Intelligence Index
- OpenAI o3-mini (High)12.5
- GPT 6 Sol39.8
OpenAI o3-mini (High): Better than 27% of 326 scored models
Agentic work
AutomationBench-AA
Workflow automation, penalized for guardrail violations
- OpenAI o3-mini (High): —
- GPT 6 Sol: 58.0%
AutomationBench-AA tasks completed
Workflows finished end to end without a guardrail violation
- OpenAI o3-mini (High): —
- GPT 6 Sol: 28.2%
AA-Briefcasev1.1
Agentic knowledge work, rated head to head
- OpenAI o3-mini (High): —
- GPT 6 Sol: 1,148 Elo
GDPval-AAv2.1
Economically valuable occupational tasks, rated head to head
- OpenAI o3-mini (High): —
- GPT 6 Sol: 1,346 Elo
Document reasoning
GDP.pdf
Professional reasoning over PDF documents, all-pass rate
- OpenAI o3-mini (High): —
- GPT 6 Sol: 23.8%
AA-LCRv1.1
Reasoning across long documents
- OpenAI o3-mini (High): —
- GPT 6 Sol: 82.3%
MLCR-AA
Long-context reasoning over medical records
- OpenAI o3-mini (High): —
- GPT 6 Sol: 28.9%
Reasoning and knowledge
Humanity’s Last Exam
Expert-level questions across academic fields
- OpenAI o3-mini (High): 7.9%
- GPT 6 Sol: 41.0%Top
GPQA Diamond
Graduate-level science questions
- OpenAI o3-mini (High): 74.8%
- GPT 6 Sol: —
MMLU-Pro
Multi-subject knowledge and reasoning
- OpenAI o3-mini (High): 79.1%
- GPT 6 Sol: —
Coding
Terminal-Benchv4.0
Practical software engineering in a terminal
- OpenAI o3-mini (High): —
- GPT 6 Sol: 18.7%
SciCode
Scientific computing in Python
- OpenAI o3-mini (High): —
- GPT 6 Sol: 53.8%
LiveCodeBench
Recent competitive programming problems
- OpenAI o3-mini (High): 71.7%
- GPT 6 Sol: —
Math
AIME
Competition mathematics
- OpenAI o3-mini (High): 77.0%
- GPT 6 Sol: —
MATH-500
Competition math problems
- OpenAI o3-mini (High): 97.3%
- GPT 6 Sol: —
Legacy evaluations
Terminal-Bench Hard
Earlier terminal task suite
- OpenAI o3-mini (High): 6.8%
- GPT 6 Sol: —
τ²-Bench Telecom
Tool use in a customer-support simulation
- OpenAI o3-mini (High): 28.7%
- GPT 6 Sol: —
AA-LCR (unversioned)
Long-context reasoning, earlier grading
- OpenAI o3-mini (High): —
- GPT 6 Sol: 82.3%
Scores from Artificial Analysis, updated Oct 26, 2026. Artificial Analysis
- OpenAI o3-mini (High)
- GPT 6 Sol
| Leaderboard | OpenAI o3-mini (High) | GPT 6 Sol |
|---|---|---|
| Roleplay | Not in top 20 | #9 · 35.3% |
| Creative writing | Not in top 20 | #6 · 45.3% |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on Use cases leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.
- OpenAI o3-mini (High)
- GPT 6 Sol
| Leaderboard | OpenAI o3-mini (High) | GPT 6 Sol |
|---|---|---|
| WebDev Overall | Not in top 20 | #8 · 1680.8 |
| WebDev · Image To Webdev | Not in top 20 | #7 · 1660.5 |
| WebDev · Webdev | Not in top 20 | #8 · 1680.8 |
| WebDev · Webdev-html | Not in top 20 | #7 · 1683.6 |
| WebDev · Webdev-react | Not in top 20 | #9 · 1684.2 |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on LMArena leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.LMArena
- OpenAI o3-mini (High)
- GPT 6 Sol
| Leaderboard | OpenAI o3-mini (High) | GPT 6 Sol |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierCode Main | Not in top 20 | #8 · 49.3% |
| FrontierCode Extended | Not in top 20 | #8 · 60.7% |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on FrontierCode leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.FrontierCode
- OpenAI o3-mini (High)
- GPT 6 Sol
| Leaderboard | OpenAI o3-mini (High) | GPT 6 Sol |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | Not in top 20 | #8 · 163.7 |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on Epoch AI leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.Epoch AI
- OpenAI o3-mini (High)
- GPT 6 Sol
| Leaderboard | OpenAI o3-mini (High) | GPT 6 Sol |
|---|---|---|
| ARC-AGI-1 | Not in top 20 | #15 · 95.5% |
| ARC-AGI-2 | Not in top 20 | #8 · 89.6% |
| ARC-AGI-3 (Default harness) | Not in top 20 | #8 · 4.6% |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on ARC Prize leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.ARC Prize
- OpenAI o3-mini (High)
- GPT 6 Sol
| Leaderboard | OpenAI o3-mini (High) | GPT 6 Sol |
|---|---|---|
| Creative Writing v3 | Not in top 20 | #4 · 2125 |
| Longform Writing | Not in top 20 | #7 · 82.8 |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on EQ-Bench leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.EQ-Bench
- OpenAI o3-mini (High)
- GPT 6 Sol
| Leaderboard | OpenAI o3-mini (High) | GPT 6 Sol |
|---|---|---|
| Game Development | Not in top 20 | #18 · 1310 |
| SVG | Not in top 20 | #5 · 1312 |
| 3D | Not in top 20 | #17 · 1310 |
| ASCII Art | Not in top 20 | #19 · 1217 |
| Web Apps | Not in top 20 | #14 · 1232 |
| Full Stack | Not in top 20 | #12 · 1237 |
| Mobile Apps | Not in top 20 | #18 · 1190 |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on Design Arena leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.Design Arena
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/o3-mini-high",
"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/o3-mini-high",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace."}],
)
print(reply.choices[0].message.content)OpenAI
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