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o4 Pro on HumanEval: score, rank and what it means

o4 Pro scores 92.1 on HumanEval, placing it #21 of 600 models in the index. The benchmark average is 74.0 and the leader is GPT-5.2 Pro at 96.8.

Score
92.1
0–100 scale
Rank
#21
of 600
Percentile
97th
within the index
Benchmark avg
74.0
all models
Leader
96.8
GPT-5.2 Pro
Gap to leader
4.7
points

Score distribution

The chart shows the top 10 models on HumanEval, with o4 Pro 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, o4 Pro sits at #21 of 600. The leader, GPT-5.2 Pro, scores 96.8, so the gap to the top is 4.7 points. The median model in this index scores 77.4, which puts o4 Pro above the midpoint.

OpenAI models average 87.6 on this benchmark. o4 Pro is 4.5 points above that provider line, so it is a stronger result than the average OpenAI model.

Among frontier models, the average is 90.8. o4 Pro is 1.3 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 92.1 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 $19.37 per million input tokens, o4 Pro 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
GPT-5.2 Reasoning OpenAI 1000000 $20.98 87.5
GPT-5.1 Max OpenAI 2000000 $20.50 87.9
Claude Opus 4.5 Reasoning Anthropic 2000000 $20.91 88.2
Qwen3-Max Pro Alibaba Cloud 400000 $18.87 86.2
o4 Pro OpenAI 1000000 $19.37 87.3
Grok 4 xAI 200000 $17.90 86.5
GPT-4.1 Pro OpenAI 400000 $17.56 85.2

Other benchmarks for o4 Pro

BenchmarkScoreRankPercentileRelative
MMLU-Pro 87.7 23 96th
GPQA Diamond 82.7 21 97th
SWE-bench Verified 78.5 13 98th
MATH-500 89.8 50 92th
AIME 2025 89.9 6 99th
LiveCodeBench 81.8 28 95th
IFEval 90.9 58 90th
TruthfulQA 87.9 22 96th
HellaSwag 94.4 10 98th
MMMU 84.1 13 98th
Arena Elo 1471.2 32 95th

FAQ

What score does o4 Pro get on HumanEval?

o4 Pro scores 92.1 on HumanEval in this index. The benchmark average is 74.0 and the top score is 96.8.

How does o4 Pro rank on HumanEval?

It ranks #21 of 600 models, in the 97th percentile. The leader is GPT-5.2 Pro at 96.8.

Is o4 Pro 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 o4 Pro cost?

o4 Pro costs $19.37 per million input tokens and $70.19 per million output tokens.

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