O3 Mini

by OpenAI

O3 Mini is OpenAI's lighter-weight reasoning model, delivering strong reasoning at lower cost than full O3. Released January 31, 2025, it is optimized for science, mathematics, and coding challenges. The model exposes adjustable reasoning effort across three levels, low, medium, and high, so developers can tune how much computation each request spends: low for latency-sensitive tasks, medium for balanced performance, and high for harder problems that need deeper reasoning. O3 Mini supports structured outputs, function calling, and streaming, with a 200,000 token context window and up to 100,000 output tokens. It is text-only without vision, positioning it as an efficient option for reasoning workloads that do not need image input.

Key info

Input
Output
Features
Context window
200K
Max output
100K
Input price
$1.10 /1M
Output price
$4.40 /1M
  • US residency available
  • Zero data retention via Enterprise
  • No training by default
  • GDPR DPA available

Available routes

O3 Mini runs on 1 route through the Opper gateway. Compare residency, ZDR, and training posture at a glance β€” full data-handling detail per route below.

ProviderRegionZero data retentionTrainingInputOutput
OpenAIUSEnterpriseNo$1.10$4.40

Training posture across routes: No training on prompts by default.

Data handling per route

Each route hosting O3 Mini has its own privacy posture, residency, and GDPR terms. Postures are maintained by Opper with a last-verification timestamp.

OpenAI β€” United StatesπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ

Zero data retention is available via Opper Enterprise contract. No training on customer data. US; SCCs; DPA available.

Zero data retention
Available via Opper Enterprise contract.
Training
No training on customer data.
Logging
Abuse monitoring (30-day retention)
Third-party access
None disclosed
GDPR DPA
DPA available
Transfer mechanism
SCCs

Benchmarks

Independent benchmark scores β€” composite indices for reasoning, coding, and math, plus individual eval scores where available.

Global rank#203 of 531 LLMs
TierEfficient
Output speed176 tok/s
First token6.83s
Intelligence Index19.0
Coding Index17.9
Reasoning & knowledge
MMLU-Pro
79%
GPQA Diamond
75%
Humanity's Last Exam
9%
Coding
LiveCodeBench
72%
SciCode
40%
Agentic & tool use
Terminal-Bench Hard
7%
τ²-Bench Telecom
29%

Get started

Call O3 Mini through the Opper gateway with one API key. Let your coding agent set it up, or call it directly β€” Opper is drop-in compatible with the OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google AI SDKs.

Set it up with your agent

Copy this and paste it into your coding agent β€” Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and more β€” and it'll wire up Opper for you.

Or call it directly

import OpenAI from "openai";
const client = new OpenAI({
apiKey: process.env.OPPER_API_KEY,
baseURL: "https://api.opper.ai/v3/compat",
});
const completion = await client.chat.completions.create({
model: "openai/o3-mini",
messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Hello" }],
});
console.log(completion.choices[0].message.content);

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