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o4-mini-2025-04-16

Made by OpenAI. Released 2025-04-16. Accessibility not recorded. We hold no price for this model: no seller we can read lists it any more, so what follows is what was measured, not what it cost.

What it scores, by house

BenchmarkHouseScoreEvaluatedScaffold
chess puzzlesEpoch AI0.2±0.042026-08-07medium
chess puzzlesEpoch AI0.1±0.032026-07-11low
chess puzzlesEpoch AI0.3±0.042025-12-08high
frontiermathEpoch AI0.1±0.022025-11-16low
frontiermathEpoch AI0.2±0.032025-11-13high
frontiermathEpoch AI0.2±0.022025-11-13medium
frontiermath tier 4Epoch AI0.0±0.022025-08-07medium
frontiermath tier 4Epoch AI0.1±0.042025-07-01high
frontiermath tier 4 v2Epoch AI0.0±0.032026-06-11high
frontiermath tiers 1 3 v2Epoch AI0.2±0.022026-08-27low
frontiermath tiers 1 3 v2Epoch AI0.3±0.032026-08-27medium
frontiermath tiers 1 3 v2Epoch AI0.4±0.032026-06-11high
gpqa diamondEpoch AI0.8±0.032026-08-07medium
gpqa diamondEpoch AI0.8±0.032026-07-11low
gpqa diamondEpoch AI0.8±0.022025-04-16high
math level 5near its ceilingEpoch AI1.0±0.002025-04-16high
mystery game puzzlesEpoch AI0.1±0.022026-08-27high
otis mock aime 2024 2025near its ceilingEpoch AI0.7±0.072026-08-07medium
otis mock aime 2024 2025near its ceilingEpoch AI0.6±0.072026-07-13low
otis mock aime 2024 2025near its ceilingEpoch AI0.8±0.052025-04-16high
simpleqa verifiedEpoch AI0.2±0.012026-08-27low
simpleqa verifiedEpoch AI0.2±0.012026-08-27high
aider polyglotcollected by Epoch AI72.0high
ale benchcollected by Epoch AI826high
algotunecollected by Epoch AI1.7high
arc aginear its ceilingcollected by Epoch AI0.6high
arc aginear its ceilingcollected by Epoch AI0.2low
arc aginear its ceilingcollected by Epoch AI0.4medium
arc agi 2collected by Epoch AI0.0low
arc agi 2collected by Epoch AI0.0medium
arc agi 2collected by Epoch AI0.1high
cad evalcollected by Epoch AI0.6medium
critptcollected by Epoch AI0.0high
dtbenchnear its ceilingcollected by Epoch AI0.8high
enigma evalcollected by Epoch AI0.1high
enigma evalcollected by Epoch AI0.1medium
fictionlivebenchcollected by Epoch AI0.6medium
forecastbenchcollected by Epoch AI61.8unknown
gdpvalcollected by Epoch AI0.3high
geobenchcollected by Epoch AI3717high
geobenchcollected by Epoch AI3651medium
gsocollected by Epoch AI0.0OpenHands
hlecollected by Epoch AI0.1medium
hlecollected by Epoch AI0.2high
lech mazur writingcollected by Epoch AI7.5medium
lmcacollected by Epoch AI26.5high
metr time horizonscollected by Epoch AI76.5medium
simplebenchcollected by Epoch AI0.4high
vpctcollected by Epoch AI0.6medium
weirdmlcollected by Epoch AI0.5high

These scores are not comparable between houses and are not added up. A score is dated by when it was evaluated, not when the model was released, and a score without its scaffold is not a measurement — which is why both are printed.

What retires, and when

  • deprecation2026-10-23
  • deprecation2026-10-23

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