OpenAIReleased on Apr 16, 2025

o3: API Pricing, Context Window & Benchmarks

o3 is a language model from OpenAI, released in April 2025, with multimodal input.

OpenAI's most powerful reasoning model. o3 is a well-rounded and powerful model across domains. It sets a new standard for math, science, coding, and visual reasoning tasks. It also excels at technical writing and instruction-following.

Input
TextImage
Output
Text

o3 benchmarks

Rankings

Quality Tracker

o3 Performance Across Datasets

Scores sourced from the model's scorecard, paper, or official blog posts

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o3 pricing

Providers

o3 starts at $2.00 per million input tokens and $8.00 per million output tokens via OpenAI.

ProviderInput $/MOutput $/MContext in / outTTFT p50 / p95 sOutput avg / p5 c/sSuccess 7dModalities in / out
OpenAI logoOpenAI
$2.00$8.00200.0K/100.0K
/20.00
50/
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Cached input is the discounted price for prompt tokens served from a provider cache. TTFT is time to first token. Output is characters per second; p5 is the sustained floor exceeded by 95% of observed requests. Success is calculated from completed versus failed requests over the trailing seven days.

o3 context window

Input and output token limits for o3, plus how it ranks on long-context understanding.

InputOutput
200Ktokens
100Ktokens
301 pages of text
200K
8K128K1M

o3 API

Available from the model provider

o3 has an official provider API. It is not currently routed through the LLM Stats gateway.

Read the official API documentation

o3 latency

o3 time to first token, sustained output throughput, and failed-request rate from live API traffic over the trailing 7 days.

o3 examples

Recent arena outputs from o3, picked from the highest-ranked matchups.

o3 license

o3 is a proprietary model available under its provider's product and API terms, has a knowledge cutoff of May 2024.

License
Proprietary
Hosted access
Knowledge cutoff
May 2024

Proprietary license - usage restrictions apply

o3 resources

Official sources for o3: api documentation, paper or system card.

o3 vs other models

The most-compared alternatives to o3 are Claude Sonnet 4.5, ERNIE 5.0, Gemini 2.5 Pro. Open any pair side-by-side for benchmarks, pricing, context, and latency.

Models like o3

Models ranked just above and below o3 by LLM Stats score.

 

Claude Sonnet 4.5

Score pending
 

ERNIE 5.0

Score pending
 

Gemini 2.5 Pro

Score pending
 

o4-mini

Score pending
 

MiMo-V2-Flash

Score pending
 

GLM-4.5

Score pending

FAQ

Common questions about o3.

When was o3 released?

o3 was released on April 16, 2025 by OpenAI. This is the official o3 release date tracked on LLM Stats.

How much does o3 cost?

o3 pricing starts at $2.00 per million input tokens and $8.00 per million output tokens via OpenAI, the lowest price among tracked providers.

Is o3 available via API?

Yes, o3 is available via API. See the official documentation for authentication and endpoint details. It is served by 1 provider tracked on LLM Stats.

Who created o3?

o3 was created by OpenAI.

What is the license for o3?

o3 is released under the Proprietary license.

What is the knowledge cutoff date for o3?

o3 has a knowledge cutoff of May 2024, meaning it was trained on data up to that point and may not know about events after it.

Is o3 multimodal?

Yes, o3 is multimodal and can accept both text and images as input.

What is o3 latency?

o3 p95 time to first token is 20.00 seconds via OpenAI over the trailing 7 days. Lower time to first token means the model begins responding sooner for chat, agents and API workloads.

Where can I use o3?

o3 is available through 1 provider including OpenAI.

Where is the o3 paper or technical report?

o3 has a paper or technical report available at https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/2221c875-02dc-4789-800b-e7758f3722c1/o3-and-o4-mini-system-card.pdf. Use that source for architecture, training, release and evaluation details.

What models should I compare o3 against?

Common o3 comparisons include o3 vs Claude Sonnet 4.5, o3 vs ERNIE 5.0, o3 vs Gemini 2.5 Pro. Compare them side by side for benchmark scores, pricing, context window, latency and API availability.