o3-mini: API Pricing, Context Window & Benchmarks
o3-mini is a language model from OpenAI, released in January 2025.
A smaller variant of O3, expected to offer enhanced multimodal capabilities, improved reasoning, and more efficient resource utilization compared to previous models while maintaining strong performance on core tasks.
o3-mini benchmarks
Rankings
Quality Tracker
o3-mini Performance Across Datasets
Scores sourced from the model's scorecard, paper, or official blog posts
llm-stats.com - Wed Jul 29 2026o3-mini pricing
Providers
o3-mini starts at $1.10 per million input tokens and $4.40 per million output tokens via Azure. See all 2 providers below with their per-token pricing, latency, throughput, and modality support.
| Provider | Input $/M | Output $/M | Context in / out | TTFT p50 / p95 s | Output avg / p5 c/s | Success 7d | Modalities in / out |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Azure | $1.10 | $4.40 | 200.0K/100.0K | —/5.20 | 115/— | — | / |
 OpenAI | $1.10 | $4.40 | 200.0K/100.0K | —/5.20 | 115/— | — | / |
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-mini context window
Input and output token limits for o3-mini, plus how it ranks on long-context understanding.
o3-mini API
Available from the model provider
o3-mini has an official provider API. It is not currently routed through the LLM Stats gateway.
Read the official API documentationo3-mini latency
o3-mini time to first token, sustained output throughput, and failed-request rate from live API traffic over the trailing 7 days.
o3-mini examples
Recent arena outputs from o3-mini, picked from the highest-ranked matchups.
o3-mini license
o3-mini is a proprietary model available under its provider's product and API terms, has a knowledge cutoff of September 2023.
- License
- Proprietary
- Hosted access
- Knowledge cutoff
- September 2023
Proprietary license - usage restrictions apply
o3-mini resources
Official sources for o3-mini: api documentation, paper or system card, official launch post, source repository.
o3-mini vs other models
The most-compared alternatives to o3-mini are Kimi-k1.5, Claude 3 Opus, Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B v1. Open any pair side-by-side for benchmarks, pricing, context, and latency.
Models like o3-mini
Models ranked just above and below o3-mini by LLM Stats score.
FAQ
Common questions about o3-mini.