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o3 Pro on MMLU-Pro: score, rank and what it means

o3 Pro scores 84.3 on MMLU-Pro, placing it #76 of 600 models in the index. The benchmark average is 73.5 and the leader is GPT-5.2 Pro at 91.6.

Score
84.3
0–100 scale
Rank
#76
of 600
Percentile
87th
within the index
Benchmark avg
73.5
all models
Leader
91.6
GPT-5.2 Pro
Gap to leader
7.3
points

Score distribution

The chart shows the top 10 models on MMLU-Pro, with o3 Pro highlighted. Longer bars mean higher scores.

GPT-5.2 Pro 91.6
GPT-5.1 Max 91.3
Claude Opus 4.5 Pro 91.2
Claude Opus 4.5 Reasoning 90.7
Gemini 3 Pro Reasoning 90.1
GPT-5.1 Reasoning 90.0
GPT-5.2 89.9
Claude Opus 4.5 Max 89.5
GPT-5.2 Vision 89.5
Gemini 3 Pro Max 89.5

Top 10 leaderboard

#ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
1 GPT-5.2 Pro OpenAI 2000000 $21.32 89.6
2 GPT-5.1 Max OpenAI 2000000 $20.50 87.9
3 Claude Opus 4.5 Pro Anthropic 200000 $20.98 89.1
4 Claude Opus 4.5 Reasoning Anthropic 2000000 $20.91 88.2
5 Gemini 3 Pro Reasoning Google DeepMind 200000 $19.69 87.5
6 GPT-5.1 Reasoning OpenAI 400000 $20.27 88.3
7 GPT-5.2 OpenAI 2000000 $19.71 88.0
8 Claude Opus 4.5 Max Anthropic 1000000 $20.90 87.8
9 GPT-5.2 Vision OpenAI 1000000 $19.03 87.4
10 Gemini 3 Pro Max Google DeepMind 2000000 $20.57 87.9

What this score means

On MMLU-Pro, o3 Pro sits at #76 of 600. The leader, GPT-5.2 Pro, scores 91.6, so the gap to the top is 7.3 points. The median model in this index scores 76.1, which puts o3 Pro above the midpoint.

OpenAI models average 84.4 on this benchmark. o3 Pro is 0.1 points below that provider line, so it is a weaker result than the average OpenAI model.

Among frontier models, the average is 86.9. o3 Pro is 2.6 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 84.3 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 $17.89 per million input tokens, o3 Pro is above the median input price of $4.00 across the 600 models scored on MMLU-Pro. The models immediately around it in the ranking are shown below so you can compare score and price together.

ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
Grok 3 Reasoning xAI 200000 $16.07 82.9
Command A Max Cohere 400000 $14.28 79.9
DeepSeek-V3.2 Base DeepSeek 128000 $5.05 80.2
MiniMax-M2 Chat MiniMax 200000 $5.02 80.2
o3 Pro OpenAI 400000 $17.89 85.8
Nova Pro Max Amazon 1000000 $14.05 81.2
o4 Vision OpenAI 200000 $17.01 84.5

Other benchmarks for o3 Pro

BenchmarkScoreRankPercentileRelative
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

FAQ

What score does o3 Pro get on MMLU-Pro?

o3 Pro scores 84.3 on MMLU-Pro in this index. The benchmark average is 73.5 and the top score is 91.6.

How does o3 Pro rank on MMLU-Pro?

It ranks #76 of 600 models, in the 87th percentile. The leader is GPT-5.2 Pro at 91.6.

Is o3 Pro good at MMLU-Pro?

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 MMLU-Pro score calculated?

MMLU-Pro is a knowledge 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 Pro cost?

o3 Pro costs $17.89 per million input tokens and $81.48 per million output tokens.

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