Model comparison

GPT-5.4 vs o3-pro

GPT-5.4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 59.4 to 42.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 8 shared benchmarks.

GPT-5.4 OpenAI

59.4

Rank #16 Confirmed

o3-pro OpenAI

42.9

Rank #105 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 8 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-5.4 scores higher in 3 categories and o3-pro in 2 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where GPT-5.4 leads 61.8 to 23.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is ARC-AGI-2: 74% for GPT-5.4 and 4.9% for o3-pro.
  • GPT-5.4 is cheaper at $2.50 / $15 per million input/output tokens, against $20 / $80 for o3-pro.
  • GPT-5.4 accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 200K.

Side by side

GPT-5.4 and o3-pro specifications
GPT-5.4o3-pro
ProviderOpenAIOpenAI
Noometry Index59.442.9
Released2026-03-052025-06-10
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1.05M200K
Max output128K100K
Input $ / M tokens$2.50$20
Output $ / M tokens$15$80
Results tracked6812

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Category by category

Coding o3-pro leads

GPT-5.4: 52.6 (#33), o3-pro: 55.5 (#24)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4o3-pro
WeirdML77.7%58.2%
SWE-bench Verified76.9%—
DeepSWE51.8%—
Aider Polyglot—84.9%
LMArena WebDev1465—
SciCode56.6%—
GSO31.4%—
LMArena Coding1497—
MirrorCode15.6%—
ALE-Bench1,607—
AlgoTune1.85—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-5.4: 46.5 (#13), o3-pro: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4o3-pro
Terminal-Bench81.8%—
APEX-Agents52.4%—
τ²-bench Banking39.4%—
DeepResearch Bench35.1%—
PostTrainBench19%—
GBAEval45.1%—
LMArena Search1197—
METR Time Horizons74.3%—
Vending-Bench 26,144—

Reasoning GPT-5.4 leads

GPT-5.4: 61.8 (#19), o3-pro: 23.8 (#171)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4o3-pro
ARC-AGI-274%4.9%
Kagi LLM Benchmark63.8%72.1%
ARC-AGI-193.7%59.3%
DTBench94.4%86.9%
LMCA52%38.5%
Epoch Capabilities Index156.81147.42
NYT Connections (extended)91.3%—
CritPt23.4%—
Chess Puzzles44%—
EnigmaEval16%—
Thematic Generalization80%—
EBR-Bench25.4%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1485—
Mystery Game Puzzles37%—
ForecastBench59.5—

Math Not comparable

GPT-5.4: 73.5 (#19), o3-pro: —

Knowledge GPT-5.4 leads

GPT-5.4: 65.3 (#14), o3-pro: 29.5 (#238)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4o3-pro
Vectara Hallucination Rate7%23.3%
GPQA Diamond93.3%—
Humanity's Last Exam36.2%—
SimpleQA Verified45.1%—
Confabulations—14.2%
LMArena Expert1507—

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-5.4: 43.7 (#20), o3-pro: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4o3-pro
LMArena Vision1303—
Blueprint-Bench 227.1%—
Furniture Assembly37.5%—
LMArena Document1471—

Multilingual Not comparable

GPT-5.4: 56.2 (#23), o3-pro: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4o3-pro
LMArena Non-English1465—
LMArena Chinese1519—
LMArena French1493—
LMArena German1472—
LMArena Japanese1485—
LMArena Korean1448—
LMArena Russian1480—
LMArena Spanish1454—

Instruction Following Not comparable

GPT-5.4: 77.1 (#27), o3-pro: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4o3-pro
LMArena Instruction Following1469—

Long Context o3-pro leads

GPT-5.4: 50.3 (#8), o3-pro: 72.2 (#1)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4o3-pro
Fiction.LiveBench—97.2%
CL-bench27.9%—
CL-bench Life21.7%—
LMArena Longer Query1473—

Writing & Preference GPT-5.4 leads

GPT-5.4: 71.9 (#17), o3-pro: 57.1 (#133)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4o3-pro
LMArena Text1469—
LMArena Creative Writing1439—
Short-Story Creative Writing—84.4%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1840—
EQ-Bench 41272—
LMArena Multi-Turn1482—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-5.4 better than o3-pro?

GPT-5.4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 59.4 to 42.9 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, GPT-5.4 or o3-pro?

GPT-5.4 is cheaper. It lists at $2.50 per million input tokens and $15 per million output tokens; o3-pro lists at $20 and $80.

Is GPT-5.4 or o3-pro better for coding?

o3-pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 55.5 versus 52.6 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

GPT-5.4 does, with 1.05M tokens against 200K.

How many benchmarks do GPT-5.4 and o3-pro share?

8 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-5.4 has 68 scored results on Noometry and o3-pro has 12.

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