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OpenAI o3-mini (Low)

Added Jan 31, 2026

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OpenAI's o3-mini reasoning model with reasoning effort set to low.

  • 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

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OpenAI o3-mini (Low)OpenAIThis modelGPT 6.1 Sol ProOpenAIRemove
ProviderOpenAIOpenAI
Discovery tierEfficientFrontier
AddedJan 31, 2026Sep 29, 2026
Limits
Context window200K1.05MBest
Max output100K128KBest
Average output—1.2K tokens
Pricing, USD per 1M tokens
Input$1.10Best$2.00
Output$4.40Best$10.00
Cache read$0.55$0.10Best
Cache write—$2.50
Performance
Request success (24h)—100.0%
Benchmark indexes
Intelligence Index12.5—
Capabilities
ReasoningYesYes
ToolsYesYes
VisionNoYes
Structured outputYesYes
PDF inputNoYes
Reasoning effortlow, medium, highlow, 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 (Low)
  • GPT 6.1 Sol Pro

Intelligence Index

  • OpenAI o3-mini (Low)12.5
  • GPT 6.1 Sol Pro—

OpenAI o3-mini (Low): Better than 27% of 326 scored models

3.8Catalog models by score55.1

Reasoning and knowledge

  • Humanity’s Last Exam

    Expert-level questions across academic fields

    • OpenAI o3-mini (Low): 7.9%
    • GPT 6.1 Sol Pro: —

  • GPQA Diamond

    Graduate-level science questions

    • OpenAI o3-mini (Low): 74.8%
    • GPT 6.1 Sol Pro: —

  • MMLU-Pro

    Multi-subject knowledge and reasoning

    • OpenAI o3-mini (Low): 79.1%
    • GPT 6.1 Sol Pro: —

Coding

  • LiveCodeBench

    Recent competitive programming problems

    • OpenAI o3-mini (Low): 71.7%
    • GPT 6.1 Sol Pro: —

Math

  • AIME

    Competition mathematics

    • OpenAI o3-mini (Low): 77.0%
    • GPT 6.1 Sol Pro: —

  • MATH-500

    Competition math problems

    • OpenAI o3-mini (Low): 97.3%
    • GPT 6.1 Sol Pro: —

Legacy evaluations

  • Terminal-Bench Hard

    Earlier terminal task suite

    • OpenAI o3-mini (Low): 6.8%
    • GPT 6.1 Sol Pro: —

  • τ²-Bench Telecom

    Tool use in a customer-support simulation

    • OpenAI o3-mini (Low): 28.7%
    • GPT 6.1 Sol Pro: —

Scores from Artificial Analysis, updated Oct 26, 2026.

Developers

Use it through the API

Noumen’s API is OpenAI-compatible: any Chat Completions client works with a base URL and a key.

Read the quickstart
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-low",
    "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-low",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace."}],
)
print(reply.choices[0].message.content)

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