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How smart is o3-mini?

105 SI-IQ · 90% interval 101–108
Rank 66 of 80 ranked models · Plausible rank range 57–69

o3-mini is a model from OpenAI, released on Jan 31, 2025. Its SI-IQ is 105 (90% interval 101–108), estimated from 9 benchmark results by 2 independent evaluators. Its strongest area is Math and its weakest is Knowledge.

Facts

Developer
OpenAI
Released
Jan 31, 2025
Access
API access
Benchmarks used
9 results from 2 evaluators
API price
$1.10 input / $4.40 output per 1M tokens (developer's price list, Oct 18, 2026)
Context window
200,000 tokens

Ability by area (SI-IQ, 90% interval)

6080100120140160Reasoning105Math106Knowledge101

Every benchmark result we used

Each score is one value exactly as the source published it: for Epoch AI the best of its run settings, for OpenRouter the median hosting provider (the developer's own hosting when it ran the test). “Implied SI-IQ” is the ability that this single result points to; the overall SI-IQ is their precision-weighted average.

Benchmark Area Score Implied SI-IQ Evaluated by As listed by the source Retrieved Source
Chess Puzzles Reasoning 15.0% 106 Epoch AI o3-mini-2025-01-31_high Oct 18, 2026 Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub · data file
Mystery Game Puzzles Reasoning 7.0% 70 Epoch AI o3-mini-2025-01-31_high Oct 18, 2026 Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub · data file
FrontierMath Tier 4 Math 0.0% 102 Epoch AI o3-mini-2025-01-31_high Oct 18, 2026 Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub · data file
FrontierMath Tiers 1–3 Math 18.6% 105 Epoch AI o3-mini-2025-01-31_high Oct 18, 2026 Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub · data file
MATH Level 5 Math 96.5% 108 Epoch AI o3-mini-2025-01-31_high Oct 18, 2026 Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub · data file
OTIS Mock AIME 2024–2025 Math 76.9% 106 Epoch AI o3-mini-2025-01-31_high Oct 18, 2026 Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub · data file
Aider Polyglot Coding 53.8% 98 Aider o3-mini (medium) Oct 18, 2026 Aider LLM Leaderboards · data file
GPQA Diamond Knowledge 77.0% 103 Epoch AI o3-mini-2025-01-31_high Oct 18, 2026 Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub · data file
SimpleQA Verified Knowledge 15.3% 88 Epoch AI o3-mini-2025-01-31_high Oct 18, 2026 Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub · data file

Human preference (Arena)

On the Arena leaderboard, where people vote between two anonymous answers, o3-mini has a rating of 1,348 (1,345–1,352) from 56,741 votes (published Oct 15, 2026). Human preference is a different measure from benchmark ability and is not part of SI-IQ. Arena (Hugging Face)

Models with similar SI-IQ

ModelSI-IQ
GPT-5 nanoOpenAI105o3-mini vs GPT-5 nano
gpt-oss-120bOpenAI106o3-mini vs gpt-oss-120b
Claude Haiku 4.5Anthropic104o3-mini vs Claude Haiku 4.5
MiniMax-M3MiniMax108o3-mini vs MiniMax-M3
Gemini 2.5 Pro (Jun 2025)Google DeepMind108o3-mini vs Gemini 2.5 Pro (Jun 2025)

Computed with SI-IQ method version 1.0.0. Read the full methodology

Data sources: Aider polyglot leaderboard data (Apache-2.0); Arena leaderboard dataset on Hugging Face (CC BY 4.0); Epoch AI, ‘Capabilities & benchmarking’ (CC BY 4.0); API list prices via LiteLLM's price table (MIT); each price links to the developer's pricing page.