The Known Good Updated 25 Jul 2026
OpenAI ·Proprietary ·Released December 2024·Tracked since 25 Jul 2026

OpenAI: o3 Mini — quality, speed & price analysis

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Quality
#15 of 61
82based on 3 of 6 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#22 of 316
131.8
Output tokens per second
Price
#236 of 340
$1.93
Blended per 1M tokens
In $1.10 · Out $4.40
Cache hit price
#189 of 206
$0.55
per 1M tokens (−50%)
Context
#205 of 345
200k
tokens (~300 pages)
Summary

OpenAI: o3 Mini is in the top quarter of the models we track for quality, and inexpensive for its standing, and notably fast. It accepts text, file input, outputs text, and supports a 200k-token context window.

It scores 82 on the Known Good Index, well above the tracked average of 60, from 3 of the six component evaluations. Measured against the tracked average, its strongest result is MATH / AIME (77 against 53) and its weakest is GPQA Diamond (77 against 63).

Pricing is $1.10 per 1M input tokens (below the $2.18 average) and $4.40 per 1M output (below the $9.91 average). Cached input reads at $0.55 per 1M, a 50% discount on its input price. At 132 tokens per second it sits in the fastest quarter of the models we track.

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Technical specifications
ReasoningYes
Input modalitytext, file
Output modalitytext
Context window200,000 tokens
Max output100,000 tokens
WeightsProprietary
Knowledge cutoffOctober 2023
Tool callingYes
Providers1 host · compare →
Highlights — where OpenAI: o3 Mini sits
Quality

Known Good Index · Higher is better · Composite of six published evaluations

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gpt-5.5-pre-release
Gemini 3.1 Pro
Preview
Gemini 3.5 Flash
Claude Opus 4.7
Qwen3.7 Max
DeepSeek V4 Pro
Kimi K2.6
GLM 5.2
Qwen3.6 Max
Preview
GPT-5.4
Claude Opus 4.6
GLM 5.1
Gemini 3 Flash
Preview
o3 Mini
Speed

Output tokens per second · Higher is better · OpenRouter endpoint telemetry

3,894
1,728
1,134
578
449
387
320
179
173
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168
166
132
Relace Apply 3
Morph V3 Large
Morph V3 Fast
Grok 4.20
Multi-Agent
gpt-oss-safeguard-20b
Nano Banana 2 Lite
(Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image)
Mercury 2
Nano Banana
(Gemini 2.5 Flash Image)
Llama 3.2 3B
Instruct
gpt-oss-120b
Laguna XS 2.1
Nano Banana 2
(Gemini 3.1 Flash Image Preview)
o3 Mini
Price

Blended USD per 1M tokens · Lower is better · Published pricing via OpenRouter

$0.01
$0.02
$0.04
$0.04
$0.04
$0.06
$0.06
$0.06
$0.06
$0.06
$0.06
$0.06
$0.06
$1.93
Ling-2.6-flash
Mistral Nemo
Granite 4.0 Micro
Llama 3 8B Lunaris
Nex-N2-Mini
Qwen2.5 7B
Instruct
gpt-oss-20b
Mistral Small 3
Llama 3.1 8B
Instruct
MythoMax 13B
Nova Micro 1.0
Granite 4.1 8B
Gemma 3 4B
o3 Mini
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Quality

How OpenAI: o3 Mini compares against every tracked model

Known Good IndexCoding IndexCapability indicesBy open weights
Known Good Index

Composite of GPQA Diamond, MATH / AIME, SWE-bench Verified, LiveBench, Humanity's Last Exam and Terminal-Bench, normalised 0–100. Scores are ingested from Epoch AI, LiveBench; we do not run these evaluations.

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The Known Good

Quality Breakdown

OpenAI: o3 Mini on each evaluation feeding the index, against the tracked average

Evaluation scores

Bar = OpenAI: o3 Mini · grey marker = average across tracked models · scores ingested from Epoch AI, LiveBench

GPQA Diamond77 / 63
MATH / AIME77 / 53
LiveBench76 / 52
The Known Good

Arena Elo

Human preference rating from blind pairwise votes

Text Arena

Elo from blind pairwise votes, ingested from Arena

1319
Elo · 95% CI ±4
#200
of 381 ranked models
57k
votes counted
1348
style-controlled (#186)

Ingested 25 Jul 2026.

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Price & Cost

Published API pricing by token type

BlendedInput vs outputCache discountQuality per dollar
Blended Price

USD per 1M tokens at a 3:1 input:output blend. Live from OpenRouter, cross-checked against models.dev. Lower is better.

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$0.01
$0.02
$0.04
$0.04
$0.04
$0.06
$0.06
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$0.06
$0.06
$0.06
$0.06
$0.06
$1.93
The Known Good
We publish blended price rather than cost-per-task. Cost-per-task requires token counts from an evaluation suite we do not run. Blended price is computed from published rates and is fully reproducible — see the pricing methodology.

Context Window

Maximum input tokens accepted

Context windowMax output tokens
Context Window

Maximum input context from provider metadata via models.dev and OpenRouter. Higher is better.

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2.00M
2.00M
2.00M
2.00M
2.00M
1.31M
1.05M
1.05M
1.05M
1.05M
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1.05M
200k
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Speed

Median output throughput across hosting providers

Output speedBy provider
Output Speed

Median output tokens per second across all tracked providers. Derived from OpenRouter endpoint telemetry. Higher is better.

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3,894
1,728
1,134
578
449
387
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173
172
168
166
132
The Known Good

Latency

Time to first token, median across providers

Time to first tokenEnd-to-end response
Latency (TTFT)

Seconds to first streamed chunk, median across tracked providers. Derived from OpenRouter endpoint telemetry. Lower is better.

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3.2
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Providers

Hosts serving OpenAI: o3 Mini, with their own price and speed

1 provider
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ProviderInput $/MOutput $/M BlendedSpeedTTFTContext
OpenAI · first party $1.10 $4.40 $1.93 127 2.4s 200k

Per-host pricing and telemetry from OpenRouter. Speed is output tokens per second; TTFT is time to first token.

The Known Good

History

How price and quality have moved since we began tracking this model

Quality & price over time

Since 25 Jul 2026

Known Good Index 82 · based on 3 of 6 evaluations
Blended price $1.93 per 1M · observed 25 Jul 2026
Output speed 132 tok/s · observed 25 Jul 2026
Time to first token 3.2s

No recorded changes for this model since tracking began.

The Known Good

Comparisons

Head-to-head pages pairing OpenAI: o3 Mini with other tracked models

OpenAI: o3 Mini vs OpenAI: GPT-5.2 OpenAI: o3 Mini vs gemini-3-pro-preview OpenAI: o3 Mini vs Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6 OpenAI: o3 Mini vs Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview OpenAI: o3 Mini vs Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus OpenAI: o3 Mini vs Z.ai: GLM 5 OpenAI: o3 Mini vs Z.ai: GLM 5.1 OpenAI: o3 Mini vs Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 All 49 comparisons →
Sources for this page
Pricing & providers — OpenRouter Metadata — models.dev Benchmarks — Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0)Benchmarks — LiveBench (Apache-2.0)Elo — Arena Full attribution →