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o3 Turbo on HumanEval: score, rank and what it means

o3 Turbo scores 87.4 on HumanEval, placing it #81 of 600 models in the index. The benchmark average is 74.0 and the leader is GPT-5.2 Pro at 96.8.

Score
87.4
0–100 scale
Rank
#81
of 600
Percentile
87th
within the index
Benchmark avg
74.0
all models
Leader
96.8
GPT-5.2 Pro
Gap to leader
9.4
points

Score distribution

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

GPT-5.2 Pro 96.8
Gemini 3 Pro Pro 95.0
o4 Max 94.6
Grok 4 Reasoning 93.8
Claude Opus 4.5 93.7
GPT-5.2 Max 93.6
Claude Opus 4.5 Pro 93.4
Grok 4 Max 93.4
GPT-5.2 Turbo 93.2
GPT-5.1 Reasoning 92.9

Top 10 leaderboard

#ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
1 GPT-5.2 Pro OpenAI 2000000 $21.32 89.6
2 Gemini 3 Pro Pro Google DeepMind 200000 $19.80 87.3
3 o4 Max OpenAI 2000000 $19.51 86.2
4 Grok 4 Reasoning xAI 2000000 $19.67 87.8
5 Claude Opus 4.5 Anthropic 400000 $19.42 87.7
6 GPT-5.2 Max OpenAI 1000000 $21.39 89.2
7 Claude Opus 4.5 Pro Anthropic 200000 $20.98 89.1
8 Grok 4 Max xAI 2000000 $19.70 86.6
9 GPT-5.2 Turbo OpenAI 1000000 $20.73 87.4
10 GPT-5.1 Reasoning OpenAI 400000 $20.27 88.3

What this score means

On HumanEval, o3 Turbo sits at #81 of 600. The leader, GPT-5.2 Pro, scores 96.8, so the gap to the top is 9.4 points. The median model in this index scores 77.4, which puts o3 Turbo above the midpoint.

OpenAI models average 87.6 on this benchmark. o3 Turbo is 0.2 points below that provider line, so it is a weaker result than the average OpenAI model.

Among frontier models, the average is 90.8. o3 Turbo is 3.4 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 87.4 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 $16.63 per million input tokens, o3 Turbo is above the median input price of $4.00 across the 600 models scored on HumanEval. The models immediately around it in the ranking are shown below so you can compare score and price together.

ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
Claude 3.7 Sonnet Turbo Anthropic 200000 $15.56 82.3
Command A Pro Cohere 200000 $14.28 81.3
Nova Pro Max Amazon 1000000 $14.05 81.2
Doubao 1.5 Pro Reasoning ByteDance 128000 $14.56 81.6
o3 Turbo OpenAI 200000 $16.63 83.4
Kimi K2 Instruct Moonshot AI 1000000 $5.80 82.3
Llama 4 Maverick Meta AI 200000 $5.36 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
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
Arena Elo 1456.2 61 90th

FAQ

What score does o3 Turbo get on HumanEval?

o3 Turbo scores 87.4 on HumanEval in this index. The benchmark average is 74.0 and the top score is 96.8.

How does o3 Turbo rank on HumanEval?

It ranks #81 of 600 models, in the 87th percentile. The leader is GPT-5.2 Pro at 96.8.

Is o3 Turbo good at HumanEval?

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 HumanEval score calculated?

HumanEval is a coding 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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