OpenRouter model

OpenAI: o3 Pro

The o-series of models are trained with reinforcement learning to think before they answer and perform complex reasoning. The o3-pro model uses more compute to think harder and provide consistently...

Provider
OpenRouter
Availability
Available
Model ID
openai/o3-pro
Snapshot
2026-10-07
Evaluation Verdict

OpenAI o3 is the full-scale frontier reasoning flagship (71.7% SWE-bench Verified, 92.4% AIME, 76.2% LiveCodeBench), providing supreme mathematical and algorithmic deduction for complex software architecture.

OpenAI: o3 Pro Benchmarks & Agentic Accuracy

Verified primary research & developer preference metrics

Primary Sources Verified
SWE-bench Verified
71.7%
High ReasoningOpenAI System Card ↗
LiveCodeBench
76.2%
High ReasoningLiveCodeBench ↗
LMSYS Coding Elo
1415Elo
Coding ArenaLMSYS Arena ↗
AIME 2024 / 2025
92.4%
High ReasoningOpenAI System Card ↗
Pricing ($ / 1M tokens)
$5/ $20
$2.5 cached readStandard API Pricing

What This Means in Real Software Development

  • Frontier reasoning scores: 92.4% on AIME 2024 and 83.3% on GPQA Diamond, surpassing human PhD baselines.
  • Scores 71.7% on SWE-bench Verified, resolving deep architectural bugs and intricate concurrency issues.
  • Full internal chain-of-thought verification prevents reasoning shortcuts and logical hallucination.
  • Ideal for complex compiler optimizations, cryptographic protocol implementations, and high-stakes planning.

Swarm Multi-Agent Topology

Tier 1: Frontier Architect & Deductive SpecialistRole: Primary / Planner

Best Paired With: Gemini 3.8 Flash for fast subagent implementation

Supreme logical accuracy prevents flawed architecture from entering Task Programs. Perfect for root-cause diagnosis of intermittent production failures.

Git Worktree Isolation Advantage:

Executes deep debugging passes in isolated worktrees, testing hypotheses against actual unit test outputs.

What Developers & Practitioners Are Saying

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

Field Consensus

"OpenAI's pinnacle reasoning model. Dominates competitive coding, Olympiad mathematics, and deep algorithmic bottlenecks with unprecedented rigor."

Verified Real-World Strengths

  • Staggering 92.4% on AIME and 77.3% on GPQA Diamond
  • Exceptional SWE-bench Verified (69.1%) with relentless self-correction
  • Solves obscure race conditions, performance bottlenecks, and algorithmic complexity issues

Production Caveats & Gaps

  • Frontier pricing ($5.00/M input, $20.00/M output)
  • Thinking token latency can exceed 60 seconds on complex tasks
  • Hidden chain-of-thought complicates latency-critical interactive workflows
Benchmark Reality Check

What the benchmark tests: Pushes the frontier of contamination-free math, competitive algorithms, and multi-hour deduction.

Production caveat: Prone to overthinking simple syntax tasks if thinking effort is left on 'high'.

Primary Sources & Methodology Citations

Head-to-Head Frontier Comparisons: OpenAI: o3 Pro vs Rivals

Standardized, side-by-side benchmark & economics comparison against peer models

Flagship Comparative Matrix
ModelRole / TierSWE-benchLiveCodeBenchLMSYS EloAIMEInput / Output
OpenAI: o3 ProOpenRouterCurrent
Tier 1: Frontier Architect & Deductive Specialist71.7%76.2%141592.4%$5 / $20
Tier 1: Frontier Large-Context Architect71%62.4%139586.5%$2.5 / $10
Tier 1: Frontier Architect & Planner70.3%59.2%139080%$3 / $15
Tier 1: Frontier Systems Specialist58.5%54.2%137576%$2 / $8
Tier 1: Master Autonomous Architect69.5%74%141891.2%$2.5 / $10

OpenAI: o3 Pro model overview

OpenAI: o3 Pro is listed in the public Swarm catalog through OpenRouter. This page summarizes the verified catalog fields used by Swarm without claiming real-time access for every provider account.

Provider
OpenRouter
Family
OpenRouter
Context window
200K tokens
Thinking support
off
Availability status
Available
Catalog ID
openrouter/openai/o3-pro
  • File input
  • Image input
  • Text input
  • Text output
  • Reasoning
  • Tools
  • Structured output
  • JSON

Run OpenAI: o3 Pro in Swarm

Verified CLI workflow & multi-agent architecture

Quickstart Guide →
bash — swarm run
$swarm ctl model set --provider openrouter --model openrouter/openai/o3-pro

# Or switch interactively inside the terminal TUI:

>/models

Subagent Role Matrix

Assign OpenAI: o3 Pro 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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