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VERIFIEDOct 142026
Is O3 state of the art?
It used to be.Was SOTA in General LLM.

As of Oct 14, 2026, O3 from OpenAI. Was SOTA in General LLM. Was SOTA in Math from 2025-09-29 to 2025-11-13. Currently ranked #18.

Computed automaticallyas of Oct 14, 2026methodology v1.0confidence: medium
General LLMWas SOTA#78 · 443dGeneral LLM · paretoNot SOTA · #100#100 · 0dReasoningWas SOTA#90 · 436dReasoning · paretoNot SOTA · #118#118 · 0dMathWas SOTA#18 · 380dMath · paretoNot SOTA · #18#18 · 0dScienceNot SOTA · #84#84 · 0dCodingNot SOTA · #27#27 · 0dLong contextWas SOTA#109 · 443dLong context · paretoNot SOTA · #145#145 · 0d
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The ruling, in plain English

Was SOTA in General LLM from 2025-07-28 to 2025-08-18. Currently ranked #78.

Receipts

Evidence

Scores come from the latest ingested snapshot
SourceScoreDateTypeReceipt
LMArena Text (style-controlled, overall)
o3-2025-04-16
1431.700777381976 1428.1–1435.32026-10-08INDEP.snap_368d64825bf4
LMArena Text (style-controlled, hard prompts)
o3-2025-04-16
1441.4530443124902 1436.7–1446.22026-10-08INDEP.snap_368d64825bf4
Humanity's Last Exam
o3-2025-04-16_high · high
0.20320000000000002 0.2–0.22025-04-16INDEP.snap_fee7890b5dd0
GPQA Diamond
o3-2025-04-16_high · high
0.8181818181818182 0.8–0.92025-04-16INDEP.snap_fee7890b5dd0
SWE-bench Verified
o3-2025-04-16_medium · medium
0.6231884057971014 0.6–0.72025-04-16INDEP.snap_fee7890b5dd0
LMArena Text (style-controlled, longer query)
o3-2025-04-16
1411.3264770238652 1405.2–1417.52026-10-08INDEP.snap_368d64825bf4
LMArena Vision (style-controlled)
o3-2025-04-16
1215.62571045441 1209.0–1222.22026-10-09INDEP.snap_44d0155ee751
LMArena Text factuality
o3-2025-04-16
1404.3046636069087 1397.7–1410.92026-10-08INDEP.snap_f051faf18005
ARC-AGI
o3-2025-04-16_high · high
0.60832025-04-16INDEP.snap_fee7890b5dd0
Reign history

Where it sits in the succession

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General LLM
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
GPT-4O
O1 Preview
O1
DeepSeek R1
O1
GPT-4.5 Preview
O3
Gemini 2.5 Pro
Gemini 2.5 Pro
O3
Claude Opus 4.1
Gemini 2.5 Pro
GPT-5
Gemini 2.5 Pro
GPT-5
Gemini 2.5 Pro
Claude Sonnet 4.5
Gemini 2.5 Pro
Gemini 2.5 Pro
GPT-4.5 Preview
Gemini 3 Pro
Claude Opus 4.6
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
Claude Opus 4.6
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
GPT-5.4
Muse Spark
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 4.7
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
Muse Spark
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 4.7
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
GPT-5.5
Muse Spark
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 4.7
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
Muse Spark
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 4.7
Muse Spark
Claude Fable 5
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Fable 5
Claude Opus 4.6
Muse Spark 1.1
Claude Fable 5
Claude Opus 5
Claude Fable 5
Claude Fable 5
Claude Opus 4.6
Muse Spark 1.2
Claude Fable 5
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 4.7
Muse Spark 1.2
Claude Fable 5
Claude Fable 5.1
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 4.7
Gemini 3.8 Flash
Muse Spark 1.2
Gemini 4 Argon
Reasoning
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
O1 Mini
O1 Preview
O1 Preview
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
O1 Preview
O1
O1 Preview
DeepSeek R1
O1
DeepSeek R1
O1
O3 Mini
DeepSeek R1
O1
DeepSeek R1
GPT-4.5 Preview
O1
DeepSeek R1
GPT-4.5 Preview
DeepSeek R1
DeepSeek V3 0324
GPT-4.5 Preview
O3
Claude Opus 4
O3
Gemini 2.5 Pro
Gemini 2.5 Pro
O3
Gemini 2.5 Pro
O3
Qwen3 235B A22b Instruct 2507
Claude Opus 4.1
Gemini 2.5 Pro
GPT-5
Qwen3 235B A22b Instruct 2507
Claude Opus 4.1
Gemini 2.5 Pro
GPT-5
Claude Opus 4.1
Claude Sonnet 4.5
Gemini 2.5 Pro
Gemini 3 Pro
Claude Opus 4.5
Gemini 3 Pro
Claude Opus 4.6
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 4.6
Muse Spark
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 4.7
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 4.7
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Fable 5
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 4.7
Claude Fable 5
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Fable 5
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 5
Claude Fable 5
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Fable 5
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 5
Claude Fable 5
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 4.7
Claude Fable 5
Claude Fable 5.1
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 4.7
Claude Opus 5.5
Gemini 4 Argon
Math
Gemini 1.5 Pro 002
Gemini 2.5 Pro Exp 03.25
Gemini 2.5 Pro Exp 03.25
O3
O4 Mini
Gemini 2.5 Pro Exp 03.25
Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 05.06
O3
O4 Mini
Gemini 2.5 Pro Exp 03.25
Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 05.06
Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06.05
O3
O4 Mini
Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06.05
GPT-5
GPT-5 Mini
O3
GPT-5
GPT-5 Pro
Gemini 3 Pro Preview
GPT-5 Pro
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
GPT-5.4 Pro
Muse Spark
Long context
O1
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
O1
O1 Preview
DeepSeek R1
Gemini 2.0 Flash 001
O1
DeepSeek R1
O1
Claude 3.7 Sonnet
GPT-4.5 Preview
GPT-4.5 Preview
DeepSeek V3 0324
GPT-4.5 Preview
DeepSeek V3 0324
GPT-4.1
GPT-4.5 Preview
DeepSeek V3 0324
GPT-4.1
GPT-4.5 Preview
O3
O3
Gemini 2.5 Pro
Gemini 2.5 Pro
O3
Claude Opus 4.1
Gemini 2.5 Pro
GPT-5
Gemini 2.5 Pro
GPT-5
Gemini 2.5 Pro
Claude Sonnet 4.5
Gemini 2.5 Pro
Gemini 2.5 Pro
GPT-4.5 Preview
Claude Sonnet 4.5
DeepSeek V3.2 Exp
Gemini 2.5 Pro
Gemini 3 Pro
Claude Opus 4.5
Claude Sonnet 4.5
Gemini 3 Pro
Claude Opus 4.6
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Sonnet 4.6
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
Claude Opus 4.6
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
Claude Opus 4.6
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
GLM 5.1
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 4.7
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 4.7
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
GPT-5.5
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 4.7
GPT-5.5
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 4.7
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 4.7
Claude Opus 4.8
Claude Fable 5
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 4.7
Claude Opus 4.8
Claude Fable 5
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 4.7
Claude Fable 5
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 4.7
Kimi K3
Claude Fable 5
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 5
Kimi K3
Claude Fable 5
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 5
Muse Spark 1.2
Claude Fable 5
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 4.7
Claude Fable 5
Claude Fable 5.1
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 4.7
Gemini 3.8 Flash
Claude Opus 5.5
Gemini 4 Argon
Honest about the gaps

Where it is not the crown

CategoryThis modelWhy
General LLMWas SOTAWas SOTA in General LLM from 2025-07-28 to 2025-08-18. Currently ranked #78.
ReasoningWas SOTAWas SOTA in Reasoning from 2025-08-04 to 2025-08-18. Currently ranked #90.
MathWas SOTAWas SOTA in Math from 2025-09-29 to 2025-11-13. Currently ranked #18.
ScienceNot SOTA · #84Last listed at #84 in Science on 2025-04-16. That board does not award a crown.
CodingNot SOTA · #27Last listed at #27 in Coding on 2025-04-16.
Long contextWas SOTAWas SOTA in Long context from 2025-07-28 to 2025-08-18. Currently ranked #109.
VisionNot SOTA · #59Ranked #59 in Vision.
FactualityNot SOTA · #105Ranked #105 in Factuality.