o3

By OpenAI · released 2025-04-16 (18 months) · snapshot 2026-10-24

Not ranked · benchmark data missingproprietary
Intelligence index
20.20
Price per 1M tokens (in / out)
$2.00 / $8.00
End-to-end time
11.0s
Better than…

Is o3 on the Pareto frontier, and what beats it?

Not ranked · benchmark data missing

o3 does not report both selected axis metrics.

At a glance

o3 today

Time to first answer7.39s
Output speed138 tok/s
Context window200k
Input modalitiesText, Image
Not plotted

Incomplete benchmark data

Intelligence and benchmark cost are both required to place this model on the frontier. Missing data is not a performance verdict.

Intelligence index
20.20
Benchmark cost
Not reported
Input / 1M tokens
2.00
Output / 1M tokens
8.00
Context window
200k

Intelligence: Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index. Cost: total cost to run that benchmark, so reasoning tokens count. API id: o3.

Matchup

Compare head to head

Deciding

Should you use o3?

Should you use o3?

No verdict: it does not report both intelligence and benchmark cost.

What is better and cheaper than o3?

Other models on the intelligence-vs-cost frontier

How much does o3 cost?

$2.00/$8.00 in/out per 1M tokens, and - to run the full Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, the honest all-in number for reasoning models.

Frontier membership by axis pair

Other axis pairs where o3 is Pareto-optimal.

Y axisX axisOn the frontier
AA intelligence indexAA total cost to run (USD)no data
AA intelligence indexEnd-to-end total seconds
AA intelligence indexOutput speed tokens/sec
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