# o1-mini vs Step 3

> Step 3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.9 to 33.7 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/o1-mini-vs-step-3
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 15

## Summary

- They share 15 benchmarks with published results for both. o1-mini scores higher in 0 categories and Step 3 in 8 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Step 3 leads 27.6 to 8.9.
- Step 3 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | o1-mini | Step 3 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI | StepFun |
| Noometry Index | 33.7 | 39.9 |
| Rank | 230 | 145 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- o1-mini: 35.1 (#218)
- Step 3: 39.5 (#144)

| Benchmark | o1-mini | Step 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1362 | 1367 |
| Aider Polyglot | 32.9% | — |
| WeirdML | 36.3% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 48% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 89% | — |
| MBPP+ | 78.8% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- o1-mini: 24.3 (#112)
- Step 3: —

| Benchmark | o1-mini | Step 3 |
|---|---|---|
| Cybench | 10% | — |

## Reasoning

- o1-mini: 8.9 (#340)
- Step 3: 27.6 (#102)

| Benchmark | o1-mini | Step 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1333 | 1355 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0.8% | — |
| SimpleBench | 18.1% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 62.3% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 14% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 72.3% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 57.9% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 135.82 | — |
| LiveBench | 57.8% | — |

## Math

- o1-mini: 33.7 (#168)
- Step 3: 34.9 (#148)

| Benchmark | o1-mini | Step 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1358 | 1366 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 46.9% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 62% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 89.2% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 1.7% | — |

## Knowledge

- o1-mini: 34.8 (#180)
- Step 3: 36.2 (#161)

| Benchmark | o1-mini | Step 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1316 | 1333 |
| GPQA Diamond | 62.4% | — |
| Confabulations | 18.6% | — |

## Multimodal

- o1-mini: —
- Step 3: 34.9 (#81)

| Benchmark | o1-mini | Step 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1176 |

## Multilingual

- o1-mini: 43.8 (#177)
- Step 3: 46.5 (#154)

| Benchmark | o1-mini | Step 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1289 | 1327 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1314 | 1396 |
| LMArena German | 1278 | 1371 |
| LMArena Korean | 1223 | 1271 |
| LMArena Russian | 1283 | 1331 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1302 | 1372 |
| LMArena French | 1292 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1245 | — |

## Instruction Following

- o1-mini: 67.0 (#200)
- Step 3: 70.6 (#159)

| Benchmark | o1-mini | Step 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1304 | 1332 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 65.4% | — |

## Long Context

- o1-mini: 40.1 (#156)
- Step 3: 40.3 (#152)

| Benchmark | o1-mini | Step 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1321 | 1326 |

## Writing & Preference

- o1-mini: 48.6 (#196)
- Step 3: 54.5 (#146)

| Benchmark | o1-mini | Step 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1317 | 1351 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1244 | 1322 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1314 | 1340 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 64.9% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 40.9% | — |

## FAQ

### Is o1-mini better than Step 3?

Step 3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.9 to 33.7 on the Noometry Index.

### Is o1-mini or Step 3 better for coding?

Step 3 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 39.5 versus 35.1 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do o1-mini and Step 3 share?

15 benchmarks have published results for both models. o1-mini has 39 scored results on Noometry and Step 3 has 17.