Preference · OpenAI

o3 Turbo on Arena Elo: score, rank and what it means

o3 Turbo scores 1456.2 on Arena Elo, placing it #61 of 600 models in the index. The benchmark average is 1349.9 and the leader is Claude Opus 4.5 Max at 1501.9.

Score
1456.2
0–100 scale
Rank
#61
of 600
Percentile
90th
within the index
Benchmark avg
1349.9
all models
Leader
1501.9
Claude Opus 4.5 Max
Gap to leader
45.7
points

Score distribution

The chart shows the top 10 models on Arena Elo, with o3 Turbo highlighted. Longer bars mean higher scores.

Claude Opus 4.5 Max 1501.9
GPT-5.2 Reasoning 1500.4
GPT-5.2 Turbo 1500.3
Claude Opus 4.5 Reasoning 1497.5
GPT-5.2 Max 1495.3
Gemini 3 Pro Turbo 1494.9
Grok 4 Max 1491.4
Claude Opus 4.5 1491.2
GPT-5.1 Pro 1490.0
Grok 4 Reasoning 1487.6

Top 10 leaderboard

#ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
1 Claude Opus 4.5 Max Anthropic 1000000 $20.90 87.8
2 GPT-5.2 Reasoning OpenAI 1000000 $20.98 87.5
3 GPT-5.2 Turbo OpenAI 1000000 $20.73 87.4
4 Claude Opus 4.5 Reasoning Anthropic 2000000 $20.91 88.2
5 GPT-5.2 Max OpenAI 1000000 $21.39 89.2
6 Gemini 3 Pro Turbo Google DeepMind 400000 $19.62 86.4
7 Grok 4 Max xAI 2000000 $19.70 86.6
8 Claude Opus 4.5 Anthropic 400000 $19.42 87.7
9 GPT-5.1 Pro OpenAI 200000 $19.77 87.8
10 Grok 4 Reasoning xAI 2000000 $19.67 87.8

What this score means

On Arena Elo, o3 Turbo sits at #61 of 600. The leader, Claude Opus 4.5 Max, scores 1501.9, so the gap to the top is 45.7 points. The median model in this index scores 1373.8, which puts o3 Turbo above the midpoint.

OpenAI models average 1449.4 on this benchmark. o3 Turbo is 6.8 points above that provider line, so it is a stronger result than the average OpenAI model.

Among frontier models, the average is 1469.8. o3 Turbo is 13.6 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 1456.2 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 $16.63 per million input tokens, o3 Turbo is above the median input price of $4.00 across the 600 models scored on Arena Elo. The models immediately around it in the ranking are shown below so you can compare score and price together.

ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
Gemini 3 Pro Vision Google DeepMind 200000 $17.59 85.5
Grok 4 xAI 200000 $17.90 86.5
Qwen3-Max Turbo Alibaba Cloud 1000000 $17.70 84.7
o3 Reasoning OpenAI 200000 $18.07 85.3
o3 Turbo OpenAI 200000 $16.63 83.4
DeepSeek-V3.2 DeepSeek 1000000 $5.88 84.0
Gemini 2.5 Pro Google DeepMind 200000 $15.20 81.6

Other benchmarks for o3 Turbo

BenchmarkScoreRankPercentileRelative
MMLU-Pro 82.7 111 82th
GPQA Diamond 77.7 95 84th
SWE-bench Verified 70.7 98 84th
HumanEval 87.4 81 87th
MATH-500 90.6 41 93th
AIME 2025 83.0 55 91th
LiveCodeBench 80.7 36 94th
IFEval 89.1 80 87th
TruthfulQA 83.6 91 85th
HellaSwag 91.8 44 93th
MMMU 79.7 63 90th

FAQ

What score does o3 Turbo get on Arena Elo?

o3 Turbo scores 1456.2 on Arena Elo in this index. The benchmark average is 1349.9 and the top score is 1501.9.

How does o3 Turbo rank on Arena Elo?

It ranks #61 of 600 models, in the 90th percentile. The leader is Claude Opus 4.5 Max at 1501.9.

Is o3 Turbo good at Arena Elo?

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 Arena Elo score calculated?

Arena Elo is a preference 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 Turbo cost?

o3 Turbo costs $16.63 per million input tokens and $83.71 per million output tokens.

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