← Model explorer

Sourced model record · Catalog current through July 21, 2026

o3-mini

A reviewed catalog record from OpenAI, released January 31, 2025. This page reports only what named sources publish about this exact record, with receipts.

API accessClosed weightsLanguage

What the evidence says

Developer
OpenAI
Released
January 31, 2025
Domains
Language
Tasks
Language modeling/generation · Question answering · Quantitative reasoning · Code generation
Access
API access
Weights
Closed weights

Across the boards

Each row is one named authority's own current view. Nothing is combined.

LMArena overall
1347.7 · rank #184 · 57,313 battles · published July 20, 2026 · board
LMArena coding arena
1415.9 · rank #162 · board
LMArena creative writing arena
1301.0 · rank #204 · board
LMArena instruction following arena
1343.5 · rank #178 · board
LMArena hard prompts arena
1370.2 · rank #176 · board
LMArena multi-turn arena
1339.6 · rank #189 · board
LMArena long queries arena
1358.4 · rank #178 · board
LMArena math arena
1381.6 · rank #151 · board
Aider polyglot
53.8% · rank #32 · system o3-mini (medium) (system result, not a bare-model score)

Platform facts

OpenRouter's platform listing, retrieved July 22, 2026. Routed platform prices, not first-party provider prices.

Input price
$1.10 per 1M tokens
Output price
$4.40 per 1M tokens
Context length
200,000 tokens
Listed on OpenRouter
January 31, 2025

Common questions

What is o3-mini?

o3-mini is a OpenAI model released January 31, 2025, according to Epoch AI's reviewed catalog record. The record classifies it under language.

How does o3-mini rank on LMArena?

In the LMArena style-controlled text snapshot published July 20, 2026, o3-mini holds official rank 184 with a rating of 1347.7 across 57,313 battles.

What does o3-mini cost?

OpenRouter lists it at $1.10 per million input tokens and $4.40 per million output tokens, retrieved July 22, 2026. Those are the platform's routed prices, not first-party provider prices.