o3 (2025-04-16)
OpenAIProprietary
o3 (2025-04-16) is a vision-language model from OpenAI. It ranks 86 of 167 on LMArena’s overall vision board with 1214±7 from 45,567 votes. Its best category is Entity recognition (#23 of 51). License: Proprietary.
Key figures
- Developer
- OpenAI
- License
- Proprietary
- First seen (our snapshots)
- 2026-10-26
Who it suits
- Overall #86 of 167: lower half; consider it mainly for cost or deployment reasons.
- Strongest category: Entity recognition (#23 of 51).
- Proprietary; used through OpenAI’s apps or API.
Neighbours on the overall board
| # | Model | Score | Votes | License | Δ vs this model |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 83 |  Mistral Medium 3.5 Mistral | 1222 | 5,375 | Modified MIT | +8 |
| 84 | Mistral Large 3 Mistral | 1220 | 9,254 | Apache 2.0 | +6 |
| 85 | GPT-6 Luna (Max) OpenAI | 1216 | 3,662 | Proprietary | +2 |
| 86 | o3 (2025-04-16) OpenAI | 1214 | 45,567 | Proprietary | |
| 87 |  Qwen-VL-Max (2025-08-13) Alibaba | 1213 | 3,170 | Proprietary | -1 |
| 88 | GPT-4.1 (2025-04-14) OpenAI | 1210 | 40,998 | Proprietary | -4 |
| 89 |  Grok 4 (0709) xAI | 1210 | 30,173 | Proprietary | -4 |
Alternatives · More from OpenAI
| # | Model | Score | Votes | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 | GPT-5.4 (High) OpenAI | 1303 | 30,747 | Proprietary |
| 21 | GPT-5.5 OpenAI | 1297 | 28,781 | Proprietary |
| 25 | GPT-5.5 (High) OpenAI | 1293 | 27,067 | Proprietary |
| 27 | GPT-5.4 OpenAI | 1292 | 22,804 | Proprietary |
| 29 | GPT-6.1 Sol (Max) OpenAI | 1288 | 2,330 | Proprietary |
Alternatives · Top open-weight models
| # | Model | Score | Votes | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 |  GLM-5.3-Flash Z.ai | 1294 | 16,254 | MIT |
| 34 |  Kimi K2.6 Moonshot AI | 1282 | 16,368 | Modified MIT |
| 38 |  DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-20260910 (Max) DeepSeek | 1278 | 4,100 | MIT |
| 39 |  Gemma 4 31B Google | 1276 | 40,219 | Apache 2.0 |
| 44 | Qwen3.8-27B Alibaba | 1269 | 7,614 | Apache 2.0 |
How to read these scores
- If two scores differ by less than their ± intervals, the models are statistically close.
- Each category board is computed independently; do not compare scores across categories.
- Models with few votes move more; ranks of new entries may change.
FAQ
Where does o3 (2025-04-16) rank among vision models?
Overall rank 86 (1214); OCR rank 87 (1218); Diagrams rank 89 (1220); Homework rank 86 (1234); Captioning rank 20 (1210); Entity recognition rank 23 (1234); Creative writing rank 85 (1201); Humor rank 65 (1222); English rank 88 (1221); Chinese rank 78 (1237) (LMArena, data as of Oct 26, 2026).
How good is o3 (2025-04-16) at OCR?
o3 (2025-04-16) ranks 87 of 123 on LMArena’s OCR board with 1218 (14,380 votes).
Is o3 (2025-04-16) better with Chinese or English prompts?
Chinese board: #78 of 128 (1237); English board: #88 of 167 (1221). The boards are computed separately, so compare ranks rather than scores.
Is o3 (2025-04-16) open-weight?
No. LMArena lists it as Proprietary; it is available through OpenAI’s apps or API.
How far is o3 (2025-04-16) from #1?
#1 overall is Claude Fable 5 (High) (1325); o3 (2025-04-16) has 1214, 111 points behind.
Sources
LMArena data published Oct 19, 2026.
Synced here Oct 26, 2026.
Price, context length and release date have no reliable public data here and are not shown; all figures come from snapshots, blanks are –.