# OpenAI o1 Review & Benchmarks (2026): Price, Context, Specs | Alher Tech

> OpenAI o1 by OpenAI: benchmarks, pricing, context window, strengths and use cases. Data from official benchmark sources.

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Last updated: August 10, 2026

## Specs

- **Vendor**: OpenAI
- **Released**: December 5, 2024
- **Context window**: 200K tokens
- **Input**: $15 / M tokens
- **Output**: $60 / M tokens

## Benchmarks

- **mmlu**: 88.7
- **gpqa**: 78
- **humanEval**: 89.1
- **arenaElo**: 1380
- **sweBench**: 48.9
- **sweBenchPro**: 36
- **liveCodeBench**: 72
- **aiderPolyglot**: 61
- **terminalBench**: 33
- **mmluPro**: 80
- **hle**: 8.8
- **aime**: 83.3
- **math500**: 96.4
- **mmmu**: 75

## Strengths

- First frontier reasoning model, proven in production
- Strong on math, physics and competitive coding
- Handles multi-step scientific workflows

## Weaknesses

- Superseded by o3 on most metrics
- Still slow and expensive per call
- No tool use in the original release

## Best for

- Existing o1-integrated pipelines
- Benchmark-stable workloads
- Customers with negotiated o1 pricing

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