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

As of Oct 14, 2026, O3 Mini from OpenAI. Was SOTA in Reasoning. Was SOTA in Reasoning from 2025-02-09 to 2025-02-17.

Computed automaticallyas of Oct 14, 2026methodology v1.0confidence: medium
General LLMNot SOTA · #7#7 · 0dReasoningWas SOTAWAS_SOTA · 612dMathNot SOTA · #11#11 · 0dScienceNot SOTA · #94#94 · 0dCodingNot SOTA · #9#9 · 0dLong contextNot SOTA · #9#9 · 0dFactualityNot SOTA · #74#74 · 0dAbstraction (ARC)Not SOTA · #67#67 · 0d
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Why

The ruling, in plain English

Last listed at #7 in General LLM on 2025-04-16.

Receipts

Evidence

Scores come from the latest ingested snapshot
SourceScoreDateTypeReceipt
LMArena Text (style-controlled, overall)
o3-mini-high · high
1286.8801255732205 1282.1–1291.72025-04-16INDEP.snap_9a4e972507c9
LMArena Text (style-controlled, math)
o3-mini-high · high
1400.853529400201 1389.8–1412.22025-07-01INDEP.snap_9a4e972507c9
GPQA Diamond
o3-mini-2025-01-31_high · high
0.7702020202020202 0.7–0.82025-01-31INDEP.snap_e03cddec1fbb
LMArena Text (style-controlled, coding)
o3-mini-high · high
1389.858553821059 1382.1–1399.12025-05-22INDEP.snap_9a4e972507c9
LMArena Text (style-controlled, longer query)
o3-mini-high · high
1310.439346917322 1300.4–1322.52025-04-16INDEP.snap_9a4e972507c9
SimpleQA Verified
o3-mini-2025-01-31_high · high
0.153 0.1–0.22025-01-31INDEP.snap_e03cddec1fbb
ARC-AGI
o3-mini-2025-01-31_high · high
0.3452025-01-31INDEP.snap_e03cddec1fbb
Reign history

Where it sits in the succession

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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
Honest about the gaps

Where it is not the crown

CategoryThis modelWhy
General LLMNot SOTA · #7Last listed at #7 in General LLM on 2025-04-16.
ReasoningWas SOTAWas SOTA in Reasoning from 2025-02-09 to 2025-02-17.
MathNot SOTA · #11Last listed at #11 in Math on 2025-07-01.
ScienceNot SOTA · #94Last listed at #94 in Science on 2025-01-31. That board does not award a crown.
CodingNot SOTA · #9Last listed at #9 in Coding on 2025-05-22.
Long contextNot SOTA · #9Last listed at #9 in Long context on 2025-04-16.
FactualityNot SOTA · #74Last listed at #74 in Factuality on 2025-01-31.
Abstraction (ARC)Not SOTA · #67Last listed at #67 in Abstraction (ARC) on 2025-01-31. That board does not award a crown.