OpenAI

o3-mini

o3-mini is a proprietary model from OpenAI, released Jan 31, 2025. It ranks #221 of 351 on the LMArena text leaderboard with a rating of 1337. It costs $1.10 per million input tokens and $4.40 per million output tokens, with a 200K-token context window.

LMArena text1337+18 in 30 days
Rank#221/351
95% interval1331–1342
Votes18.6K
Developer
OpenAI
Released
Jan 31, 2025
Context window
200K
Price in / out, per 1M tokens
$1.10 / $4.40
Weights
Proprietary
Inputs
Text, Files
Reasoning
Yes
Tool use
Yes
o3-mini, LMArena text rating over time
12901305132013351350Feb 25Jul 25Dec 25May 26Oct 26
Latesto3-mini 1337

The rating LMArena published at each update since Feb 6, 2025. Ratings move as votes come in and new models join.

Benchmarks

BenchmarkScore barAccuracyRankCost / test
LiveCodeBenchCoding71.48%85 / 143$1.1 / $4.4
MedQAMedicine94.83%14 / 92$1.1 / $4.4
GPQA DiamondReasoning75.50%82 / 138$1.1 / $4.4
MMLU-ProReasoning78.69%103 / 138$1.1 / $4.4
AIMEReasoning86.46%32 / 96$1.1 / $4.4

Vals AI, as of Oct 24, 2026.

LMArena, by category

LeaderboardRatingRankVotes
TextLMArena1337221 / 35118.6K
CodingLMArena1378199 / 3462.6K
MathLMArena1396169 / 3391.9K
Creative writingLMArena1286237 / 3493.1K
Instruction followingLMArena1337199 / 3516.7K
Hard promptsLMArena1365193 / 3514.4K
Multi-turnLMArena1320230 / 3492.5K
Long queriesLMArena1343208 / 3302.2K
ExpertLMArena1364187 / 305847
Legal and governmentIndustries1329228 / 3251K
Medicine and healthcareIndustries1330229 / 325824
Business and financeIndustries1313230 / 3441.8K
ChineseLanguages1379200 / 3281.2K
SpanishLanguages1321207 / 249126
GermanLanguages1303197 / 261377
FrenchLanguages1334202 / 252203
JapaneseLanguages1286171 / 236374

LMArena, CC BY 4.0, as of Oct 22, 2026. Where a model is rated at several effort levels, its best is shown (o3-mini (High), o3-mini).

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OpenAI

The lab behind GPT and ChatGPT, which brought large language models to hundreds of millions of people. Founded 2015, based in San Francisco. openai.com

Questions

Who makes o3-mini?

o3-mini is made by OpenAI, founded 2015 and based in San Francisco.

How much does o3-mini cost?

$1.10 per million input tokens and $4.40 per million output tokens, at its provider’s list price.

What is o3-mini’s context window?

200K tokens (200,000).

How does o3-mini rank?

#221 of 351 on LMArena’s text leaderboard, rated 1337 (95% interval 1331–1342) from 18,589 votes, as of Oct 22, 2026.

Is o3-mini open source?

No. o3-mini is proprietary and served through its provider’s API.

Sources

Every number on this page comes from these sources; models without a published number show none. Download the data. Cite as “Nexus Explorer, nexus.inc/models”.