OpenAI · frontier · Released 2026-02-06

o3 Pro: pricing, context window and benchmarks

o3 Pro is a frontier model from OpenAI. It offers a 400,000-token context window, costs $17.89 per million input tokens and $81.48 per million output tokens, and averages 85.8 across the index's benchmark suite.

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Input price
$17.89
per 1M tokens
Output price
$81.48
per 1M tokens
Context
400,000
tokens
Avg score
85.8
rank #39 of 600
Arena Elo
1471.9
modelled
Max output
8,192
tokens

Pricing

o3 Pro costs $17.89 per million input tokens and $81.48 per million output tokens. A blended 3:1 input-to-output mix works out to about $33.79 per million tokens. Cached input is listed at $1.46 per million tokens.

ItemPriceNotes
Input$17.89per 1M tokens
Output$81.48per 1M tokens
Cached input$1.46per 1M tokens
Blended 3:1$33.79estimate per 1M tokens
1M in + 1M out$99.37estimate

Benchmarks

Scores below are modelled estimates on a 0–100 scale. Use them to compare relative position, not as official vendor results.

BenchmarkScoreRankPercentileRelative
MMLU-Pro 84.3 76 87th
GPQA Diamond 78.7 75 88th
SWE-bench Verified 76.9 23 96th
HumanEval 90.6 38 94th
MATH-500 92.4 17 97th
AIME 2025 83.5 51 92th
LiveCodeBench 82.4 21 97th
IFEval 90.9 57 91th
TruthfulQA 88.4 18 97th
HellaSwag 92.5 34 94th
MMMU 83.1 21 97th
Arena Elo 1471.9 31 95th

What o3 Pro is good for

o3 Pro sits in the frontier tier of the index. It is aimed at work where answer quality matters more than unit cost: hard reasoning, multi-step coding, document analysis and multimodal inputs. At $17.89 per million input tokens and a 400,000-token context window, it is a premium option, so reserve it for tasks where a cheaper model measurably fails.

Strengths

  • Top-tier average benchmark score (85.8), placing it #39 of 600.
  • Large 400,000-token context window for long documents and agent traces.
  • Accepts more than text, including image input where the provider supports it.
  • Reasoning-oriented profile, useful for multi-step problems and structured analysis.
  • Coding benchmarks are a relative strength within its tier.

Trade-offs

  • Proprietary licence: you cannot download the weights or self-host the model.
  • Premium input pricing at $17.89 per million tokens.
  • Cost can climb quickly on long outputs and high-volume traffic.

How it compares

ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
Claude Sonnet 4.5 Turbo Anthropic 1000000 $18.37 85.9
Grok 3 Max xAI 2000000 $17.66 85.9
Qwen3-Max Max Alibaba Cloud 400000 $18.53 85.9
Qwen3-Max Reasoning Alibaba Cloud 2000000 $18.12 85.9
o3 Pro OpenAI 400000 $17.89 85.8
Claude Opus 4.5 Turbo Anthropic 2000000 $19.57 85.7

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FAQ

How much does o3 Pro cost?

o3 Pro is listed at $17.89 per million input tokens and $81.48 per million output tokens. Cached input is $1.46 per million tokens. A blended 3:1 input-to-output mix is about $33.79 per million tokens.

What is the context window of o3 Pro?

o3 Pro has a context window of 400,000 tokens and can emit up to 8,192 output tokens per request in this index.

Is o3 Pro open weights?

No. o3 Pro is a proprietary model with a proprietary licence, so you cannot download the weights.

How does o3 Pro score on benchmarks?

o3 Pro averages 85.8 across the scored benchmarks in this index, ranking #39 of 600 models. Its strongest relative result is Arena Elo at 1471.9.

What is o3 Pro best for?

o3 Pro sits in the frontier tier of the index. It is aimed at work where answer quality matters more than unit cost: hard reasoning, multi-step coding, document analysis and multimodal inputs. At $17.89 per million input tokens and a 400,000-token context window, it is a premium option, so reserve it for tasks where a cheaper model measurably fails.

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