The Model Index
Models/OpenAI

o4-mini

OpenAIReleased 16 Apr 2025ClosedReasoningDate verified
143132–155Index score#77 of 229 models
5/ 8Core tests taken4 of 6 areas · plus 19 anchor tests
−3Versus the frontier at releasebest then: o3
$1.1/ $4.4Price per million tokensinput / output, list price
200KContext windowtokens it reads at once

Where it sitson the frontier

Among the first models to reach this score.

Test resultsby area · tick = best by any model

Reasoning & knowledgeevidence
GPQA Diamond
80%
Humanity's Last Exam
18%
Mathsevidence
FrontierMath T1-3
36%
Codingevidence
SWE-bench Verified
no result
Terminal-Bench
no result
Agentsevidence
APEX-Agents
no result
Novel problemsevidence
ARC-AGI-2
6%
Long tasksevidence
METR time horizon
1.3 h

Independent results from the Epoch AI benchmarking hub, best reasoning setting. The core tests are shown here; anchor tests also inform the score and can be shown above.

What others sayrank on each leaderboard

The Model Indexindependent tests, our method#77of 219 · 143
Epoch Capabilities Indexoverall capability from many benchmarks#76of 239 · 145.6

Further left is better. Leaderboards measure different things: LMArena is people voting blind between two answers, the others are test scores. Click any row for the source.

Best attop three among current models

Not in the top three among current models on any category we track.

Where this model places in the top three of today's models, on category leaderboards and on our core tests.

Where to use itprices checked 1 Oct 2026

API providers 1 · per million tokens, in / out

OOpenAI$1.1 / $4.4cheapest

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Facts and sources

Released16 Apr 2025
Announcementopenai.com ↗
Release entryo3 + o4-mini
Scored aso4-mini
Artificial Analysis index–
Output speed–
Hugging Faceclosed weights

OpenAI releasesaround this one