Model comparison
o1-pro vs o3
o3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 47.5 to 31.5 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. o1-pro scores higher in 0 categories and o3 in 2 categories; 2 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where o3 leads 54.6 to 29.7.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is ARC-AGI-1: 23.3% for o1-pro and 60.8% for o3.
- o3 is cheaper at $2 / $8 per million input/output tokens, against $150 / $600 for o1-pro.
Side by side
| o1-pro | o3 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI | OpenAI |
| Noometry Index | 31.5 | 47.5 |
| Released | 2025-03-19 | 2025-04-16 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | 200K | 200K |
| Max output | 100K | 100K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $150 | $2 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $600 | $8 |
| Results tracked | 3 | 63 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
o1-pro: —, o3: 46.8 (#64)
| Benchmark | o1-pro | o3 |
|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified | — | 62.3% |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 58.4% |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 81.3% |
| GSO | — | 8.8% |
| WeirdML | — | 52.4% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1408 |
| CadEval | — | 74% |
| ALE-Bench | — | 933.55 |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
o1-pro: —, o3: 34.5 (#44)
| Benchmark | o1-pro | o3 |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 63% |
| GDPval | — | 30.8% |
| DeepResearch Bench | — | 45.2% |
| OSWorld | — | 23% |
| LMArena Search | — | 1144 |
| METR Time Horizons | — | 65.4% |
Reasoning o3 leads
o1-pro: 20.4 (#239), o3: 32.0 (#78)
| Benchmark | o1-pro | o3 |
|---|---|---|
| ARC-AGI-1 | 23.3% | 60.8% |
| EnigmaEval | 6.1% | 13.1% |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 6.5% |
| SimpleBench | — | 53.1% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 67.6% |
| CritPt | — | 1.4% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 38% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1402 |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 29% |
| DTBench | — | 84.8% |
| LMCA | — | 39.7% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 146.86 |
| ForecastBench | — | 62.5 |
Math Not comparable
o1-pro: —, o3: 50.2 (#58)
| Benchmark | o1-pro | o3 |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 33.3% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 84.4% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 71.4% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1426 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 97.8% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 18.7% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | — | 2.1% |
Knowledge o3 leads
o1-pro: 29.7 (#234), o3: 54.6 (#52)
| Benchmark | o1-pro | o3 |
|---|---|---|
| Humanity's Last Exam | 8.1% | 20.3% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 81.8% |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 49.4% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 85.9% |
| Confabulations | — | 14.4% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 75.3% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1402 |
Multimodal Not comparable
o1-pro: —, o3: 41.4 (#36)
| Benchmark | o1-pro | o3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1214 |
| GeoBench | — | 74% |
| VPCT | — | 52% |
Multilingual Not comparable
o1-pro: —, o3: 51.7 (#105)
| Benchmark | o1-pro | o3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1401 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1437 |
| LMArena French | — | 1430 |
| LMArena German | — | 1420 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1403 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1370 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1406 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1395 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
o1-pro: —, o3: 72.8 (#127)
| Benchmark | o1-pro | o3 |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | — | 86.9% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1368 |
Long Context Not comparable
o1-pro: —, o3: 53.3 (#6)
| Benchmark | o1-pro | o3 |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 88.9% |
| CL-bench | — | 17.8% |
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1372 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
o1-pro: —, o3: 63.5 (#64)
| Benchmark | o1-pro | o3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1410 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1359 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 83.9% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1676 |
| WildBench | — | 86.1% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1405 |
Frequently asked questions
Is o1-pro better than o3?
o3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 47.5 to 31.5 on the Noometry Index.
Which is cheaper, o1-pro or o3?
o3 is cheaper. It lists at $2 per million input tokens and $8 per million output tokens; o1-pro lists at $150 and $600.
Which has the bigger context window?
Both accept 200K tokens.
How many benchmarks do o1-pro and o3 share?
3 benchmarks have published results for both models. o1-pro has 3 scored results on Noometry and o3 has 63.