OpenAI · Balanced
OpenAI o3
OpenAI o3 is a reasoning model for complex analytical, coding, mathematical, and scientific tasks.
- Reasoning
- Input
- Text
- Output
- Text
- Reasoning effort
- low · medium · high
- Discovery tier
- Balanced
Pricing
USD per 1M tokens- Input
- $2.00
- Output
- $8.00
- Cache read
- $1.00
Reference prices as published by the model provider. API example
Specifications
- Context window
- 200K
- Max output
- 100K
- Average output (7 days)
- 205 tokens
- Longer than 22% of 468 models
Side by side
OpenAI o3 compared
Specifications, prices, speed and benchmark scores next to each other. Benchmarks below show every compared model too.
| OpenAI o3OpenAIThis model | MiniMax M2.1MiniMaxRemove | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI | MiniMax |
| Discovery tier | Balanced | Open weights |
| Added | Apr 16, 2025 | Jan 20, 2025 |
| Limits | ||
| Context window | 200K | 200K |
| Max output | 100K | 131.07KBest |
| Average output | 205 tokens | 359 tokens |
| Pricing, USD per 1M tokens | ||
| Input | $2.00 | $0.30Best |
| Output | $8.00 | $1.20Best |
| Cache read | $1.00 | $0.03Best |
| Benchmark indexes | ||
| Intelligence Index | 20.2 | 20.9Best |
| Math Index | 88.3Best | 82.7 |
| Capabilities | ||
| Reasoning | Yes | Yes |
| Tools | No | Yes |
| Structured output | No | Yes |
| Reasoning effort | low, medium, high | — |
Public evaluations
Benchmarks
Independent evaluation results, with how each score ranks among the models in the Noumen catalog.
- OpenAI o3
- MiniMax M2.1
Intelligence Index
- OpenAI o320.2
- MiniMax M2.120.9
OpenAI o3: Better than 50% of 326 scored models
Indexes
Math Index
Composite of the math evaluations
- OpenAI o3: 88.3Top
- MiniMax M2.1: 82.7
Document reasoning
AA-LCRv1.1
Reasoning across long documents
- OpenAI o3: 74.7%Top
- MiniMax M2.1: 67.7%
Reasoning and knowledge
Humanity’s Last Exam
Expert-level questions across academic fields
- OpenAI o3: 20.1%
- MiniMax M2.1: 23.2%Top
GPQA Diamond
Graduate-level science questions
- OpenAI o3: 82.7%
- MiniMax M2.1: 83.0%Top
MMLU-Pro
Multi-subject knowledge and reasoning
- OpenAI o3: 85.3%
- MiniMax M2.1: 87.5%Top
IFBench
Following precise output instructions
- OpenAI o3: 71.4%Top
- MiniMax M2.1: 69.9%
Coding
LiveCodeBench
Recent competitive programming problems
- OpenAI o3: 80.8%
- MiniMax M2.1: 81.0%Top
Math
AIME 2025
Competition mathematics, 2025 problems
- OpenAI o3: 88.3%Top
- MiniMax M2.1: 82.7%
AIME
Competition mathematics
- OpenAI o3: 90.3%
- MiniMax M2.1: —
MATH-500
Competition math problems
- OpenAI o3: 99.2%
- MiniMax M2.1: —
Legacy evaluations
Terminal-Bench Hard
Earlier terminal task suite
- OpenAI o3: 37.1%Top
- MiniMax M2.1: 28.8%
τ²-Bench Telecom
Tool use in a customer-support simulation
- OpenAI o3: 80.7%
- MiniMax M2.1: 85.4%Top
AA-LCR (unversioned)
Long-context reasoning, earlier grading
- OpenAI o3: 74.7%Top
- MiniMax M2.1: 67.7%
Scores from Artificial Analysis, updated Oct 26, 2026. Artificial Analysis
- OpenAI o3
- MiniMax M2.1
| Leaderboard | OpenAI o3 | MiniMax M2.1 |
|---|---|---|
| Vision Style Control · Creative Writing | #9 · 1191.8 | Not in top 20 |
| Vision Style Control · Captioning | #14 · 1182.6 | Not in top 20 |
| Vision Style Control · Entity Recognition | #10 · 1231.4 | Not in top 20 |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on LMArena leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.LMArena
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",
"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",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace."}],
)
print(reply.choices[0].message.content)OpenAI
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