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o3 Nano on TruthfulQA: score, rank and what it means

o3 Nano scores 75.4 on TruthfulQA, placing it #324 of 600 models in the index. The benchmark average is 73.6 and the leader is GPT-5.1 Max at 91.1.

Score
75.4
0–100 scale
Rank
#324
of 600
Percentile
46th
within the index
Benchmark avg
73.6
all models
Leader
91.1
GPT-5.1 Max
Gap to leader
15.7
points

Score distribution

The chart shows the top 10 models on TruthfulQA, with o3 Nano highlighted. Longer bars mean higher scores.

GPT-5.1 Max 91.1
Gemini 3 Pro Reasoning 90.3
GPT-5.1 Reasoning 90.0
GPT-5.2 Pro 90.0
GPT-5.2 89.7
Gemini 3 Pro Max 89.6
Grok 4 Reasoning 89.4
Qwen3-Max Max 89.3
GPT-5.1 89.2
GPT-5.1 Turbo 89.2

Top 10 leaderboard

#ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
1 GPT-5.1 Max OpenAI 2000000 $20.50 87.9
2 Gemini 3 Pro Reasoning Google DeepMind 200000 $19.69 87.5
3 GPT-5.1 Reasoning OpenAI 400000 $20.27 88.3
4 GPT-5.2 Pro OpenAI 2000000 $21.32 89.6
5 GPT-5.2 OpenAI 2000000 $19.71 88.0
6 Gemini 3 Pro Max Google DeepMind 2000000 $20.57 87.9
7 Grok 4 Reasoning xAI 2000000 $19.67 87.8
8 Qwen3-Max Max Alibaba Cloud 400000 $18.53 85.9
9 GPT-5.1 OpenAI 2000000 $19.01 86.0
10 GPT-5.1 Turbo OpenAI 2000000 $19.19 86.1

What this score means

On TruthfulQA, o3 Nano sits at #324 of 600. The leader, GPT-5.1 Max, scores 91.1, so the gap to the top is 15.7 points. The median model in this index scores 76.3, which puts o3 Nano below the midpoint.

OpenAI models average 85.0 on this benchmark. o3 Nano is 9.6 points below that provider line, so it is a weaker result than the average OpenAI model.

Among mid-range models, the average is 71.6. o3 Nano is 3.8 points above that group. This is the more useful comparison if you are shortlisting within the same tier rather than across the whole index.

Read a 75.4 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 $7.78 per million input tokens, o3 Nano is above the median input price of $4.00 across the 600 models scored on TruthfulQA. 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 Replicate 200000 $3.75 75.7
OLMo 2 Allen Institute for AI 65536 $2.99 71.0
Mixtral Instruct Mistral AI 65536 $3.35 72.9
Nemotron 4 Base NVIDIA 8192 $3.29 73.0
o3 Nano OpenAI 32768 $7.78 70.6
GPT-4.1 Nano OpenAI 32768 $7.42 70.5
Phi-3.5 Instruct Microsoft 16384 $2.67 70.1

Other benchmarks for o3 Nano

BenchmarkScoreRankPercentileRelative
MMLU-Pro 75.3 325 46th
GPQA Diamond 64.8 364 39th
SWE-bench Verified 57.9 358 40th
HumanEval 72.5 377 37th
MATH-500 74.5 339 44th
AIME 2025 65.6 334 44th
LiveCodeBench 60.3 365 39th
IFEval 78.2 365 39th
HellaSwag 81.4 360 40th
MMMU 70.2 295 51th
Arena Elo 1354.5 355 41th

FAQ

What score does o3 Nano get on TruthfulQA?

o3 Nano scores 75.4 on TruthfulQA in this index. The benchmark average is 73.6 and the top score is 91.1.

How does o3 Nano rank on TruthfulQA?

It ranks #324 of 600 models, in the 46th percentile. The leader is GPT-5.1 Max at 91.1.

Is o3 Nano good at TruthfulQA?

It is below the median for this benchmark, so test it carefully before relying on it for this capability. The result should be read alongside its price and context window.

How is the TruthfulQA score calculated?

TruthfulQA is a safety 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 Nano cost?

o3 Nano costs $7.78 per million input tokens and $29.81 per million output tokens.

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