OpenAI o3 vs OpenAI o4 Mini High
Compare OpenAI o3 and OpenAI o4 Mini High, both from OpenAI, in 29 community votes, openai o4 mini high wins 71% of head-to-head duels, tested across 54 shared challenges.
Web Design: OpenAI o4 Mini High wins 75% of votes
Image Generation: OpenAI o4 Mini High wins 75% of votes
Reasoning: OpenAI o3 wins 67% of votes
Conversation: OpenAI o4 Mini High wins 100% of votes
Our Verdict
OpenAI o4 Mini HighWinner
OpenAI o3Runner-up
Pick OpenAI o4 Mini High. In 29 blind votes, OpenAI o4 Mini High wins 71% of the time. That's not luck.
Pick OpenAI o3 for Reasoning. Pick OpenAI o4 Mini High for Conversation, Web Design, Image Generation. OpenAI o4 Mini High is 9.1x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
Clear winner
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
OpenAI o3
Input
$10.00
Output
$40.00
OpenAI o4 Mini High
Input
$1.10
9.1× cheaper
Output
$4.40
9.1× cheaper
OpenAI o4 Mini High is cheaper on both — 9.1× input, 9.1× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
66%
OpenAI o3 uses 69.5x more bold
OpenAI o3
OpenAI o4 Mini High
68%Vocabulary70%
14wSentence Length18w
0.26Hedging0.33
0.7Bold0.0
3.0Lists1.3
0.00Emoji0.02
0.38Headings0.00
0.12Transitions0.04
Based on 16 + 14 text responses
Research
What we learned reading every model
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