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How smart is o3-mini?

o3-mini is a model from OpenAI, released on Jan 31, 2025. Its SI-IQ is 105 (90% interval 101–108), estimated from 9 benchmark results by 2 evaluators.

Data as of Oct 18, 2026 · method 1.0.0

Every benchmark result we used

Each score is one value exactly as the source published it: for Epoch AI the best of its run settings, for OpenRouter the median hosting provider (the developer's own hosting when it ran the test). “Implied SI-IQ” is the ability that this single result points to; the overall SI-IQ is their precision-weighted average.

Human preference (Arena)

On the Arena leaderboard, where people vote between two anonymous answers, o3-mini has a rating of 1,348 (1,345–1,352) from 56,741 votes (published Oct 15, 2026). Human preference is a different measure from benchmark ability and is not part of SI-IQ. Arena (Hugging Face)

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Computed with SI-IQ method version 1.0.0. Read the full methodology

Data sources: Aider polyglot leaderboard data (Apache-2.0); Arena leaderboard dataset on Hugging Face (CC BY 4.0); Epoch AI, ‘Capabilities & benchmarking’ (CC BY 4.0); LiteLLM, model_prices_and_context_window.json (MIT) (licences and changes).