OpenAI o3-mini is a cost-efficient language model optimized for STEM reasoning tasks, particularly excelling in science, mathematics, and coding. This model supports the `reasoning_effort` parameter, which can be set to... (description from the OpenRouter listing)
| Benchmark | Domain | Score | vs best recorded | Setting | Run | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LMCA | agents | 19.0% | 29% | high | — | External ↗ |
| DTBench | reasoning | 68.8% | 70% | high | — | External ↗ |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | games | 7.0% ±2.6 | 8% | high | 27 Aug 2026 | Epoch ↗ |
| FrontierMath-Tiers-1-3-v2-Private | math | 18.6% ±2.3 | 20% | high | 11 Jun 2026 | Eval log ↗ |
| FrontierMath-Tier-4-v2-Private | math | 0.0% | 0% | high | 11 Jun 2026 | Eval log ↗ |
| Chess Puzzles | games | 17.0% ±3.8 | 24% | high | 8 Dec 2025 | Eval log ↗ |
| SimpleQA Verified | knowledge | 15.3% ±1.1 | 20% | high | 31 Aug 2026 | Eval log ↗ |
| FrontierMath-Tier-4-2025-07-01-Privatesuperseded | math | 4.2% ±2.9 | 9% | high | 1 Jul 2025 | Epoch ↗ |
| GSO-Bench | coding | 1.3% | 3% | low | — | External ↗ |
| ARC-AGI-2 | reasoning | 3.0% | 3% | high | — | External ↗ |
| FrontierMath-2025-02-28-Privatesuperseded | math | 12.4% ±1.9 | 24% | high | 16 Nov 2025 | Epoch ↗ |
| Lech Mazur Writing | other | 61.7% | 72% | high | — | External ↗ |
| WeirdML | coding | 43.7% ±0.0 | 47% | high | — | External ↗ |
| Aider polyglot | coding | 60.4% | 69% | high | — | External ↗ |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | math | 76.9% ±5.2 | 77% | high | 27 Feb 2025 | Eval log ↗ |
| SimpleBench | reasoning | 22.8% | 28% | high | — | External ↗ |
| GPQA diamond | science | 77.0% ±2.6 | 80% | high | 13 Feb 2025 | Eval log ↗ |
| MATH level 5 | math | 96.5% ±0.4 | 98% | high | 13 Feb 2025 | Epoch ↗ |
| ARC-AGI | reasoning | 34.5% | 35% | high | — | External ↗ |
Source: Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub (CC BY 4.0). “External” rows are leaderboard results Epoch collects from third parties. Best reported setting per benchmark is shown.
13 observations (OpenRouter listing + Internet Archive snapshots). History accumulates with every ingest run; a single point means no change has been observed yet.