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o3 Mini on AIME 2025: score, rank and what it means

o3 Mini scores 69.8 on AIME 2025, placing it #263 of 600 models in the index. The benchmark average is 63.6 and the leader is Claude Opus 4.5 Pro at 91.4.

Score
69.8
0–100 scale
Rank
#263
of 600
Percentile
56th
within the index
Benchmark avg
63.6
all models
Leader
91.4
Claude Opus 4.5 Pro
Gap to leader
21.6
points

Score distribution

The chart shows the top 10 models on AIME 2025, with o3 Mini highlighted. Longer bars mean higher scores.

Claude Opus 4.5 Pro 91.4
GPT-5.2 Pro 91.0
GPT-5.1 Pro 90.6
GPT-5.2 90.6
o4 Reasoning 90.3
o4 Pro 89.9
Claude Opus 4.5 89.8
Gemini 3 Pro Max 89.6
Claude Opus 4.5 Max 89.3
Claude Opus 4.5 Reasoning 88.9

Top 10 leaderboard

#ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
1 Claude Opus 4.5 Pro Anthropic 200000 $20.98 89.1
2 GPT-5.2 Pro OpenAI 2000000 $21.32 89.6
3 GPT-5.1 Pro OpenAI 200000 $19.77 87.8
4 GPT-5.2 OpenAI 2000000 $19.71 88.0
5 o4 Reasoning OpenAI 1000000 $19.69 87.5
6 o4 Pro OpenAI 1000000 $19.37 87.3
7 Claude Opus 4.5 Anthropic 400000 $19.42 87.7
8 Gemini 3 Pro Max Google DeepMind 2000000 $20.57 87.9
9 Claude Opus 4.5 Max Anthropic 1000000 $20.90 87.8
10 Claude Opus 4.5 Reasoning Anthropic 2000000 $20.91 88.2

What this score means

On AIME 2025, o3 Mini sits at #263 of 600. The leader, Claude Opus 4.5 Pro, scores 91.4, so the gap to the top is 21.6 points. The median model in this index scores 67.6, which puts o3 Mini above the midpoint.

OpenAI models average 80.9 on this benchmark. o3 Mini is 11.1 points below that provider line, so it is a weaker result than the average OpenAI model.

Among multimodal models, the average is 73.9. o3 Mini is 4.1 points below that group. This is the more useful comparison if you are shortlisting within the same tier rather than across the whole index.

Read a 69.8 as a relative signal, not an absolute guarantee. Benchmark scores depend on prompt format, evaluation harness and contamination controls. Use this page to narrow the shortlist, then test the model on your own data.

Price context

At $10.68 per million input tokens, o3 Mini is above the median input price of $4.00 across the 600 models scored on AIME 2025. The models immediately around it in the ranking are shown below so you can compare score and price together.

ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
Llama 3 Replicate Base Replicate 65536 $3.15 72.1
Llama 3.1 Cerebras Cerebras 128000 $4.01 76.0
Nemotron 4 Instruct NVIDIA 65536 $4.10 76.4
Qwen3 Base Alibaba Cloud 65536 $4.33 77.4
o3 Mini OpenAI 128000 $10.68 76.2
Mistral Small 3 Base Mistral AI 16384 $3.19 72.7
DBRX Databricks 65536 $3.29 73.3

Other benchmarks for o3 Mini

BenchmarkScoreRankPercentileRelative
MMLU-Pro 76.6 290 52th
GPQA Diamond 71.9 222 63th
SWE-bench Verified 63.4 247 59th
HumanEval 81.5 200 67th
MATH-500 81.2 188 69th
LiveCodeBench 70.7 178 70th
IFEval 82.7 255 58th
TruthfulQA 79.6 199 67th
HellaSwag 86.4 203 66th
MMMU 74.0 193 68th
Arena Elo 1394.3 232 61th

FAQ

What score does o3 Mini get on AIME 2025?

o3 Mini scores 69.8 on AIME 2025 in this index. The benchmark average is 63.6 and the top score is 91.4.

How does o3 Mini rank on AIME 2025?

It ranks #263 of 600 models, in the 56th percentile. The leader is Claude Opus 4.5 Pro at 91.4.

Is o3 Mini good at AIME 2025?

Yes, relative to the index: it is above the median and inside the top half of scores. The result should be read alongside its price and context window.

How is the AIME 2025 score calculated?

AIME 2025 is a mathematics benchmark. Scores in this index are modelled estimates on a 0–100 scale (or Elo for Arena), derived from capability tier and benchmark difficulty. They are not official leaderboard results.

What does o3 Mini cost?

o3 Mini costs $10.68 per million input tokens and $45.84 per million output tokens.

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