OpenAI o4-mini vs o3: Can a Smaller Reasoner Replace o3?

OpenAI o4-miniOpenAI o3
arenaElo13621418
humanEval88.692.4
sweBench6069.1
mmlu85.490.2
gpqa74.283.3
aime9291.6
Price in/out ($/M)$1.1 / $4.4$10 / $40

Our verdict

o4-mini lands within 10 GPQA points of o3 at ~10% of the price. Unless you need the absolute top of the reasoning curve, o4-mini is the smarter default for reasoning workloads at scale.

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