Benchmark Almanac

o3

o3 ranks first on 9 of the 185 benchmarks it has scores on.

OpenAI Released 16 Apr 2025 Family o3 The lab's model card
189
Benchmarks with a score
9
Ranked first, out of five or more models
28
In the top three
OpenAI Apr 2025

o3

Closed weights Flagship

146.9 #76 of 271
Epoch Capabilities Index
  • Humanity's Last Exam 20.3% #20 /47
  • SWE-bench Verified 62.3% #27 /32
  • Toolathlon 17% #43 /50

Where it ranks

Its best score on each benchmark, and where that ranks among every model with a score there. We rank each model once, at its best setting.

Knowledge and language

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
ECLeKTic 43.1% #1 of 35 Official leaderboard
Arena-Hard v2.0 85.9% #1 of 23 Official leaderboard
Fiction.LiveBench 88.9% #6 of 57 Epoch AI
WritingBench 80.5 #5 of 45 Official leaderboard
Lech Mazur Creative Writing 8.39 #5 of 44 Epoch AI
MMLU-Pro 85% #30 of 212 Official leaderboard
WideSearch 5.10% #1 of 6 Official leaderboard
SimpleQA 49% #13 of 59 Model card
Wer wird Millionär? LLM Benchmark 112800.0 #18 of 76 Official leaderboard
MMMLU 88.8% #16 of 62 Model card
Vectara Hallucination Leaderboard (HHEM) 6.80% #39 of 148 Official leaderboard
LMArena (Elo) 1,432 #90 of 333 Official leaderboard
SimpleQA Verified 52.3% #16 of 56 Official leaderboard
Slop Score 31.8 #5 of 17 Official leaderboard
EQ-Bench 3 1,500 #23 of 78 Official leaderboard
Creative Writing v3 73.3 #37 of 120 Official leaderboard
LLM Confabulation Leaderboard 14.4% #19 of 58 Official leaderboard
MultiNRC 45.5% #13 of 38 Official leaderboard
FACTS Search 74.8% #11 of 31 Official leaderboard
FACTS Parametric 57.1% #16 of 45 Official leaderboard
Humanity's Last Exam 20.3% #20 of 47 Official leaderboard
PersonQA 59% #4 of 9 Model card
Judgemark v2.1 75.1 #20 of 42 Official leaderboard
Longform Creative Writing (EQ-Bench) 62.7 #57 of 119 Official leaderboard
FaithJudge 17.8% #18 of 37 Official leaderboard
FACTS Multimodal 39.9% #19 of 39 Official leaderboard
CL-bench 17.8% #13 of 24 Official leaderboard
BullshitBench 23.6% #62 of 107 Official leaderboard
IndicGenBench 50.0 #8 of 13 Official leaderboard
BullshitBench V2 26% #76 of 122 Official leaderboard
MultiChallenge 56.6% #22 of 35 Official leaderboard
SimpleQA Hallucination Rate 51% #8 of 12 Model card
FACTS Benchmark Suite 39.9% #27 of 40 Official leaderboard
FACTS Grounding 69.6% #26 of 34 Official leaderboard

Math and science

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
MATH Level 5 97.8% #4 of 94 Epoch AI
AIME 2024 91.6% #13 of 87 Model card
HiPhO 64.8% #6 of 35 Official leaderboard
BRUMO 2025 95.8% #10 of 42 Official leaderboard
PHYBench 34.8% #7 of 28 Official leaderboard
SMT 2025 87.7% #14 of 40 Official leaderboard
DTBench 74.7% #69 of 178 Official leaderboard
GPQA Diamond 81.8% #85 of 219 Epoch AI
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 84.4% #79 of 202 Epoch AI
AIME 2025 88.9% #57 of 143 Model card
HMMT 2025 77.5% #24 of 53 Official leaderboard
FrontierMath 18.7% #32 of 70 Epoch AI
SimpleBench 53.1% #50 of 100 Official leaderboard
IMO 2025 16.7% #3 of 6 Official leaderboard
CritPt 1.40% #89 of 160 Epoch AI
CMIMC 2025 82.5% #19 of 33 Official leaderboard
CORE-Bench 24.4% #10 of 17 Official leaderboard
ARC-AGI-2 6.53% #59 of 95 Official leaderboard
ForecastBench 63.5 #54 of 86 Official leaderboard
ARC-AGI 60.8% #58 of 92 Official leaderboard
FrontierMath Tier 4 2.08% #39 of 55 Epoch AI
FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 v2 33.3% #67 of 89 Epoch AI
ATLAS (OpenCompass) 33.8% #4 of 5 Official leaderboard

Coding

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
AutoCodeBench 51.1% #2 of 34 Official leaderboard
Aider Polyglot 81.3% #4 of 54 Epoch AI
LiveCodeBench v5 77.4% #2 of 21 Official leaderboard
LiveCodeBench v6 75.8% #2 of 21 Official leaderboard
SWE-bench Multimodal 36% #1 of 9 Official leaderboard
Codeforces rating 2,706 #8 of 41 Model card
METR Time Horizon 91 min #7 of 31 Official leaderboard
ArtifactsBench 54% #7 of 20 Official leaderboard
CodeClash 1,343 #3 of 8 Official leaderboard
SWE-Lancer 54% #4 of 10 Model card
WeirdML 52.4% #45 of 112 Official leaderboard
OpenAI PRs 44% #5 of 12 Model card
METR Time Horizon 1.1 120 min #11 of 26 Official leaderboard
OpenAI Research Engineer Interview: Coding 97% #3 of 7 Model card
OpenAI Research Engineer Interview: Multiple Choice 80% #4 of 9 Model card
ALE-Bench 934 #58 of 121 Epoch AI
GSO-Bench 8.82% #18 of 30 Official leaderboard
LiveSQLBench 23.7% #22 of 36 Official leaderboard
MLE-bench 31.6% #8 of 12 Official leaderboard
SWE-Lancer Diamond (SWE Manager) 41% #3 of 4 Model card
SWE-bench Verified 62.3% #27 of 32 Epoch AI
TasteVal 8.28× #17 of 20 Official leaderboard
PaperBench 18% #12 of 14 Model card

Agents and tools

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
Step Race 5 #2 of 59 Official leaderboard
SnakeBench 36 #7 of 183 Official leaderboard
BFCL V4 63% #7 of 65 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Word Association 352 #6 of 36 Official leaderboard
LisanBench 3308.7 #33 of 133 Official leaderboard
LLM Chess 778 #32 of 124 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Chess Openings 934 #3 of 11 Official leaderboard
VITA-Bench 26.3% #5 of 18 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Checkers 989 #12 of 38 Official leaderboard
MCP-Universe 26.4% #10 of 30 Official leaderboard
VitaBench 2.0 40.3% #7 of 20 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Chess 923 #14 of 39 Official leaderboard
Elimination Game 4 #21 of 56 Official leaderboard
ITBench 51.7% #5 of 13 Official leaderboard
MCPMark 25.4% #11 of 28 Official leaderboard
Mystery Game Puzzles 29% #32 of 80 Epoch AI
Pencil Puzzle Bench 3.30% #23 of 53 Official leaderboard
tau-bench 61.2% #10 of 23 Model card
GAIA 62.1% #25 of 57 Official leaderboard
Chess Puzzles 37% #37 of 83 Epoch AI
Game Arena Five in a Row 540 #9 of 20 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Poker 1.17 #14 of 31 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Bargaining 193 #17 of 36 Official leaderboard
OSWorld-Verified 56% #16 of 33 Official leaderboard
LMArena Search Arena 1,196 #19 of 35 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Reversi 457 #20 of 36 Official leaderboard
Kaggle Game Arena 268 #22 of 39 Official leaderboard
Galileo Agent Leaderboard 0.86 #18 of 31 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Dark Hex 221 #23 of 38 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Four in a Row 294 #23 of 38 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Nine Men's Morris 561 #22 of 36 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Ultimate Tic-Tac-Toe 243 #23 of 36 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Word Art 276 #23 of 35 Official leaderboard
DeepResearch Bench 45.2% #16 of 24 Epoch AI
Game Arena Go 554 #25 of 36 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Lines of Action 412 #25 of 36 Official leaderboard
BrowseComp 49.7% #58 of 77 Model card
Game Arena Clobber 141 #28 of 36 Official leaderboard
Toolathlon 17% #43 of 50 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Dots and Boxes 594 #32 of 37 Official leaderboard
OSWorld 23% #8 of 9 Epoch AI
Game Arena Coin Game 147 #33 of 35 Official leaderboard

Professional work

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
CadEval 74% #1 of 15 Epoch AI
xbench-Recruitment 78.5 #1 of 8 Official leaderboard
xbench-Marketing 50.8 #1 of 7 Official leaderboard
FailureSensorIQ 67.6% #4 of 24 Official leaderboard
Vals Finance Agent v1 47.7% #8 of 47 Official leaderboard
TaxEval v2 74.6% #34 of 129 Official leaderboard
ProfBench 52.4% #22 of 72 Official leaderboard
MedCode 47.3% #33 of 96 Official leaderboard
LegalBench 83.8% #48 of 138 Official leaderboard
PRBench 48.6% #16 of 44 Official leaderboard
MortgageTax 65.7% #37 of 86 Official leaderboard
StockBench 1.90% #6 of 13 Official leaderboard
CorpFin v2 59.7% #73 of 119 Official leaderboard
GDPval 30.8% #7 of 11 Epoch AI
MedScribe 76.7% #67 of 98 Official leaderboard
Vending-Bench $1,843 #8 of 9 Official leaderboard
SpreadsheetBench 23.3% #2 of 2 Official leaderboard

Vision, audio and robotics

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
MMMU 82.9% #4 of 136 Official leaderboard
VHELM 81.0 #2 of 41 Official leaderboard
VisualPuzzles 54% #2 of 29 Official leaderboard
MathVista 86.8% #8 of 64 Model card
Video-MMMU 83.3% #3 of 23 Official leaderboard
MMMU-Pro 76.4% #10 of 57 Official leaderboard
ERQA 41.5% #3 of 17 Official leaderboard
Math-VR 59.3% #5 of 26 Official leaderboard
VISTA 50.1% #11 of 54 Official leaderboard
VisuLogic 29.5% #4 of 17 Official leaderboard
EnigmaEval 13.1% #10 of 41 Epoch AI
VPCT 52% #7 of 28 Epoch AI
GeoBench 74% #21 of 48 Official leaderboard
Vision Arena 1,216 #68 of 136 Official leaderboard
ZeroBench 6.00% #36 of 66 Official leaderboard
CharXiv 78.6% #37 of 67 Model card
Drone-Bench 55% #12 of 19 Official leaderboard
Point-Bench 43.5% #11 of 17 Official leaderboard
ClockBench 12.2% #25 of 37 Official leaderboard

Safety and security

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
HELM Safety 98.2 #2 of 75 Official leaderboard
Multimodal Troubleshooting Virology 59% #2 of 26 Model card
Capture the Flag (Collegiate) 68% #1 of 13 Model card
Virology Capabilities Test (VCT) 43.8% #1 of 7 Official leaderboard
Spiral-Bench v1.0 86.1 #2 of 13 Official leaderboard
BaxBench 46.4% #6 of 34 Official leaderboard
AIR-Bench 2024 84.5% #15 of 82 Official leaderboard
Spiral-Bench v1.2 63.4 #4 of 21 Official leaderboard
Capture the Flag (High School) 82% #2 of 9 Model card
FORTRESS 16% #15 of 66 Official leaderboard
StrongREJECT 97% #5 of 22 Model card
Human Sourced Jailbreaks 100% #2 of 8 Model card
PCT (Polarized Contrastive Pairs) 39% #13 of 46 Official leaderboard
Capture the Flag (Professional) 55% #9 of 21 Model card
SimpleSafetyTests 99% #37 of 75 Official leaderboard
Image generation refusals 98% #1 of 2 Model card
Challenging Refusal Evaluation 92% #5 of 9 Model card
Tacit Knowledge and Troubleshooting 70% #17 of 29 Model card
ProtocolQA Open-Ended 30% #16 of 25 Model card
Apollo Research sabotage evaluations 0.58 #2 of 3 Model card
Anthropic Red Team 98.3% #52 of 75 Official leaderboard
Cyber Range 0% #8 of 10 Model card
First-Person Fairness evaluation 0.60% #9 of 10 Model card

Other

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
CAIS Risk Index 30.2 #2 of 65 Official leaderboard
HELM Capabilities 81.1 #3 of 60 Official leaderboard
ACCoRD 71.4 #41 of 150 Official leaderboard
LMCA 39.7% #52 of 139 Epoch AI
Conceptual Reasoning Index 53.0 #57 of 149 Official leaderboard
CAIS Text Capabilities Index 25.6 #42 of 66 Official leaderboard
CAIS Vision Capabilities Index 46.5 #35 of 53 Official leaderboard
SAGE (Vals) 41.8% #56 of 81 Official leaderboard

OpenAI's models over time

OpenAI's models in color, against every other model on the Epoch Capabilities Index, by release date.

50 75 100 125 150 175 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027 GPT-6.1 Terra GPT-6 Luna GPT-5.5 Instant GPT-5.4 Mini GPT-5.2 Pro GPT-5 GPT-5 nano 50 75 100 125 150 175 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027 GPT-6.1 Terra GPT-6 Luna

Its launch post

The benchmarks the lab chose to headline, with the scores it gave.

Its system card

Every result in the longer documents the lab published with it. 33 of them aren't in the launch post.

Capabilities

Autonomy