OpenAI model

O3 Mini 2025 01 31

O3 Mini 2025 01 31 in the public OpenAI catalog.

Provider
OpenAI
Availability
Available
Model ID
o3-mini-2025-01-31
Snapshot
2026-10-07
Evaluation Verdict

OpenAI o3-mini is a specialized STEM and coding reasoning model with an exceptional 87.3% on AIME 2024 and 69.5% on LiveCodeBench, excelling at algorithmic correctness and multi-step math.

O3 Mini 2025 01 31 Benchmarks & Agentic Accuracy

Verified primary research & developer preference metrics

Primary Sources Verified
SWE-bench Verified
49.3%
High Reasoning (Baseline)OpenAI Official System Card ↗
LiveCodeBench
69.5%
High ReasoningLiveCodeBench v2 Leaderboard ↗
LMSYS Coding Elo
1360Elo
Coding ArenaLMSYS Arena ↗
AIME 2024 / 2025
87.3%
High Reasoning (Pass@1)OpenAI Technical Announcement ↗
Pricing ($ / 1M tokens)
$1.1/ $4.4
$0.55 cached readStandard API Pricing

What This Means in Real Software Development

  • Dominates competitive algorithmic problem-solving with 69.5% on LiveCodeBench and 97.9% on MATH-500.
  • Achieves 49.3% baseline on SWE-bench Verified (jumping to 61%+ under advanced multi-turn agent harnesses).
  • Supports adjustable reasoning effort (low, medium, high) alongside native tool calling and Structured Outputs.
  • Priced at $0.14/M input and $4.40/M output, sitting in the sweet spot between lightweight flash models and heavy frontier weights.

Swarm Multi-Agent Topology

Tier 2: Dedicated Logic & Test EngineerRole: Coder Subagent

Best Paired With: Claude 3.7 Sonnet as Planner or Gemini 3.8 Flash as Finder

Excels at writing comprehensive unit test suites and verifying complex boundary conditions before code merges. Perfect for Stage 2 integration barriers in Task Programs.

Git Worktree Isolation Advantage:

Because o3-mini produces highly deterministic logic patches, running it inside isolated Git worktrees guarantees clean test assertion commits with zero branch pollution.

What Developers & Practitioners Are Saying

Real-world field observations, production strengths, and developer consensus

Field Consensus

"The gold standard for developer price-to-performance in reasoning models. Blazingly fast compared to o1, offering frontier STEM deduction at utility rates."

Verified Real-World Strengths

  • Top-tier LiveCodeBench (52.6%) and AIME (79.2%) for just $1.10/M input
  • High throughput for a reasoning model
  • Excellent for isolated algorithmic modules, regex authoring, and SQL tuning

Production Caveats & Gaps

  • Context window smaller than Gemini (200k vs 1M+)
  • Can overthink simple string formatting or file listing tasks
  • Lacks multimodal image inputs
Benchmark Reality Check

What the benchmark tests: Validates high-speed reasoning and STEM deduction on standardized problem sets.

Production caveat: Requires clear prompt boundaries to prevent unnecessary reasoning loops on trivial tasks.

Primary Sources & Methodology Citations

O3 Mini 2025 01 31 model overview

O3 Mini 2025 01 31 is listed in the public Swarm catalog through OpenAI. This page summarizes the verified catalog fields used by Swarm without claiming real-time access for every provider account.

Provider
OpenAI
Family
O3
Context window
200K tokens
Thinking support
Not supported
Availability status
Available
Catalog ID
openai/o3-mini-2025-01-31
  • File input
  • Text input
  • Text output
  • Reasoning
  • Tools
  • Structured output
  • JSON

Run O3 Mini 2025 01 31 in Swarm

Verified CLI workflow & multi-agent architecture

Quickstart Guide →
bash — swarm run
$swarm ctl model set --provider openai --model openai/o3-mini-2025-01-31

# Or switch interactively inside the terminal TUI:

>/models

Subagent Role Matrix

Assign O3 Mini 2025 01 31 to specialized system roles in ~/.swarm/config.json:

  • Primary / Planner: Orchestrates full task DAGs and multi-stage pipelines.
  • Coder Subagent: Generates code and unit tests inside private Git worktrees.
  • Finder Subagent: Performs read-only code search, symbol discovery, and mapping.
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