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o4 Vision on LiveCodeBench: score, rank and what it means

o4 Vision scores 81.3 on LiveCodeBench, placing it #31 of 600 models in the index. The benchmark average is 61.0 and the leader is Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning at 85.1.

Score
81.3
0–100 scale
Rank
#31
of 600
Percentile
95th
within the index
Benchmark avg
61.0
all models
Leader
85.1
Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning
Gap to leader
3.8
points

Score distribution

The chart shows the top 10 models on LiveCodeBench, with o4 Vision highlighted. Longer bars mean higher scores.

Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning 85.1
Grok 4 Reasoning 85.1
Claude Opus 4.5 85.0
GPT-5.2 Max 84.8
Grok 4 Turbo 84.7
GPT-5.1 Turbo 84.6
GPT-5.2 Pro 84.6
GPT-5.2 Reasoning 84.6
Claude Opus 4.5 Pro 84.1
Gemini 3 Pro Max 83.6

Top 10 leaderboard

#ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
1 Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning Anthropic 400000 $19.48 87.7
2 Grok 4 Reasoning xAI 2000000 $19.67 87.8
3 Claude Opus 4.5 Anthropic 400000 $19.42 87.7
4 GPT-5.2 Max OpenAI 1000000 $21.39 89.2
5 Grok 4 Turbo xAI 1000000 $19.21 86.7
6 GPT-5.1 Turbo OpenAI 2000000 $19.19 86.1
7 GPT-5.2 Pro OpenAI 2000000 $21.32 89.6
8 GPT-5.2 Reasoning OpenAI 1000000 $20.98 87.5
9 Claude Opus 4.5 Pro Anthropic 200000 $20.98 89.1
10 Gemini 3 Pro Max Google DeepMind 2000000 $20.57 87.9

What this score means

On LiveCodeBench, o4 Vision sits at #31 of 600. The leader, Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning, scores 85.1, so the gap to the top is 3.8 points. The median model in this index scores 64.7, which puts o4 Vision above the midpoint.

OpenAI models average 77.2 on this benchmark. o4 Vision is 4.1 points above that provider line, so it is a stronger result than the average OpenAI model.

Among frontier models, the average is 80.6. o4 Vision is 0.7 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 81.3 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 $17.01 per million input tokens, o4 Vision is above the median input price of $4.00 across the 600 models scored on LiveCodeBench. The models immediately around it in the ranking are shown below so you can compare score and price together.

ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
Claude Opus 4.5 Reasoning Anthropic 2000000 $20.91 88.2
o4 Pro OpenAI 1000000 $19.37 87.3
o4 OpenAI 2000000 $17.74 85.4
Grok 4 Max xAI 2000000 $19.70 86.6
o4 Vision OpenAI 200000 $17.01 84.5
Qwen3-Max Pro Alibaba Cloud 400000 $18.87 86.2
GPT-5.1 Reasoning OpenAI 400000 $20.27 88.3

Other benchmarks for o4 Vision

BenchmarkScoreRankPercentileRelative
MMLU-Pro 84.2 78 87th
GPQA Diamond 80.9 47 92th
SWE-bench Verified 75.6 35 94th
HumanEval 88.9 58 90th
MATH-500 91.7 29 95th
AIME 2025 80.4 84 86th
IFEval 89.1 81 87th
TruthfulQA 85.3 64 89th
HellaSwag 91.2 57 91th
MMMU 80.7 49 92th
Arena Elo 1473.2 28 95th

FAQ

What score does o4 Vision get on LiveCodeBench?

o4 Vision scores 81.3 on LiveCodeBench in this index. The benchmark average is 61.0 and the top score is 85.1.

How does o4 Vision rank on LiveCodeBench?

It ranks #31 of 600 models, in the 95th percentile. The leader is Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning at 85.1.

Is o4 Vision good at LiveCodeBench?

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 LiveCodeBench score calculated?

LiveCodeBench 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 Vision cost?

o4 Vision costs $17.01 per million input tokens and $90.05 per million output tokens.

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