Benchmark Almanac

o4-mini

o4-mini ranks first on 10 of the 211 benchmarks with five or more models scored.

OpenAI Released April 16th, 2025 Compare with others
216
Benchmarks with a score
10
Ranked first, out of five or more models
34
In the top three
OpenAI Apr 2025

o4-mini

Closed weights

145.3 #94 of 256
Epoch Capabilities Index
Self-Reported Index 137.7 #198 of 404
  • Humanity's Last Exam 18.1% #23 /47
  • MultiChallenge 44.9% #33 /42
  • Toolathlon 14.8% #44 /50

Where it ranks

Its best score on each benchmark, and where that ranks among every model with a score there. We rank each model once, at its best setting.

Knowledge and language

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
IFEval 92.8% #5 of 60 Official leaderboard
Arena-Hard v2.0 79.1% #2 of 23 Official leaderboard
TableBench 61.7% #1 of 10 Official leaderboard
Video SimpleQA 54% #3 of 27 Official leaderboard
Seal-0 5.40% #2 of 11 Official leaderboard
Fiction.LiveBench 77.8% #12 of 57 Fiction.live leaderboard, via Epoch AI
AraGen 70.6% #11 of 42 Official leaderboard
Wer wird Millionär? LLM Benchmark 56178.0 #25 of 77 Official leaderboard
ECLeKTic 22.6% #12 of 35 Official leaderboard
MARS-Bench 47.1% #6 of 15 Official leaderboard
LMArena (Elo) 1,391 #141 of 335 Official leaderboard
DiscoX 55.1 #3 of 7 Official leaderboard
LLM Confabulation Leaderboard 15.8% #26 of 58 Official leaderboard
MMMLU 85.2% #33 of 71 Lab model card
WritingBench 72.9 #21 of 45 Official leaderboard
EQ-Bench 3 1,279 #37 of 78 Official leaderboard
Humanity's Last Exam 18.1% #23 of 47 Official leaderboard
HLE Calibration 57.0 #2 of 4 Official leaderboard
SnorkelSpatial 14.8% #15 of 27 Official leaderboard
Vectara Hallucination Leaderboard (HHEM) 4.60% #84 of 148 Official leaderboard
Global MMLU Lite 87% #27 of 43 Official leaderboard
FACTS Search 66.2% #20 of 31 Official leaderboard
SimpleQA 20% #40 of 60 Lab model card
PersonQA 36% #6 of 9 Lab model card
SimpleQA Verified 21.2% #39 of 56 Official leaderboard
FaithJudge 25.8% #26 of 37 Official leaderboard
MultiNRC 22.2% #27 of 38 Official leaderboard
Visual Aesthetic Benchmark 25% #13 of 18 Official leaderboard
FACTS Parametric 20.5% #33 of 45 Official leaderboard
IndicGenBench 41.9 #10 of 13 Official leaderboard
MultiChallenge 44.9% #33 of 42 Official leaderboard
Judgemark v2.1 56.1 #35 of 42 Official leaderboard
BullshitBench 10.9% #96 of 107 Official leaderboard
HUMAINE 20 #45 of 50 Official leaderboard
BullshitBench V2 8.00% #117 of 129 Official leaderboard
FACTS Grounding 62.1% #31 of 34 Official leaderboard
SimpleQA Hallucination Rate 79% #11 of 12 Lab model card
Vectara Hallucination Leaderboard (2025 dataset) 18.6% #97 of 104 Official leaderboard

Math and science

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
MATH Level 5 97.8% #3 of 94 Epoch AI run
AIME 2024 93.4% #4 of 88 Lab model card
SnorkelGraph 75% #2 of 24 Official leaderboard
GPQA Main 73.5% #6 of 60 Official leaderboard
PhyX 45.8% #1 of 10 Official leaderboard
UGMathBench 81.9% #1 of 7 Official leaderboard
IneqMath 15.5% #7 of 34 Official leaderboard
PolyMath 45.6% #9 of 38 Official leaderboard
AMO-Bench 40.2% #5 of 21 Official leaderboard
AIME 2025 92.7% #37 of 143 Lab model card
FutureX 26.3 #2 of 7 Official leaderboard
MATH-500 94.2% #11 of 38 Official leaderboard
USAMO 2025 19.1% #3 of 10 Official leaderboard
SnorkelSequences 68.8% #8 of 25 Official leaderboard
SMT 2025 88.7% #13 of 40 Official leaderboard
SciArena 1,029 #12 of 34 Official leaderboard
HiPhO 59.5% #13 of 36 Official leaderboard
CMT-Benchmark 18% #4 of 11 Official leaderboard
ForecastBench 0.13 #30 of 82 Official leaderboard
FrontierMath 24.8% #21 of 55 Official leaderboard
PHYBench 29.4% #11 of 28 Official leaderboard
HMMT 2025 83.3% #21 of 53 Official leaderboard
CORE-Bench 35.6% #7 of 17 Official leaderboard
FrontierMath Tier 4 6.25% #23 of 55 Epoch AI run
GPQA Diamond 79.6% #98 of 229 Epoch AI run
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 81.7% #95 of 212 Epoch AI run
PutnamBench 0.30% #6 of 12 Official leaderboard
DTBench 77.6% #98 of 180 Official leaderboard
CMIMC 2025 83.8% #18 of 33 Official leaderboard
Misguided Attention 42.9% #25 of 45 Official leaderboard
SGI-Bench 30.1% #9 of 15 Official leaderboard
LiveMathematicianBench 24.6% #11 of 17 Official leaderboard
General365 51% #15 of 23 Official leaderboard
ARC-AGI-2 6.11% #64 of 98 Official leaderboard
ARC-AGI 58.7% #63 of 95 Official leaderboard
BRUMO 2025 86.7% #28 of 42 Official leaderboard
IMO 2025 14.3% #4 of 6 Official leaderboard
Putnam-like 70.4% #4 of 6 Official leaderboard
FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 v2 36.1% #61 of 86 Official leaderboard
SimpleBench 38.7% #77 of 106 Official leaderboard
IMO-ProofBench 11.4% #15 of 20 Official leaderboard
FrontierMath Tier 4 v2 4.88% #58 of 68 Official leaderboard
FrontierScience-Olympiad 61.6% #6 of 7 Official leaderboard
FrontierScience-Research 8.33% #6 of 7 Official leaderboard
IMProofBench 6.45% #8 of 9 Official leaderboard
SciPredict 16.2% #11 of 12 Official leaderboard
miniCTX-v2 24.9% #4 of 4 Official leaderboard

Coding

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
LiveCodeBench 91% #1 of 21 Official leaderboard
LiveCodeBench v5 81.4% #1 of 21 Official leaderboard
LiveCodeBench v6 80.2% #1 of 21 Official leaderboard
AetherCode 35.5% #1 of 9 Official leaderboard
OIBench 36.4% #1 of 9 Official leaderboard
OpenAI Research Engineer Interview: Multiple Choice 83% #1 of 9 Lab model card
Codeforces rating 2,719 #7 of 47 Lab model card
AutoCodeBench 50% #6 of 34 Official leaderboard
OpenAI Research Engineer Interview: Coding 98% #2 of 7 Lab model card
AlgoTune 1.72× #6 of 18 Official leaderboard
SWE-bench Multimodal 33.9% #3 of 9 Official leaderboard
Aider Polyglot 68.9% #11 of 30 Lab model card
WeirdML 52.6% #44 of 112 Official leaderboard
SWE-bench Verified 64.6% #24 of 60 Official leaderboard
LiveSQLBench 24.2% #19 of 36 Official leaderboard
SWE-Lancer 52% #6 of 10 Lab model card
ALE-Bench 1,271 #78 of 126 Official leaderboard
PaperBench 25% #10 of 15 Lab model card
OpenAI PRs 39% #8 of 12 Lab model card
IOI (Vals) 4.83% #42 of 55 Official leaderboard
DesignArena Game Dev 993 #124 of 143 Official leaderboard
DesignArena UI Component 974 #124 of 139 Official leaderboard
DesignArena Website 978 #135 of 151 Official leaderboard
GSO-Bench 3.60% #27 of 30 Official leaderboard
DesignArena Code 966 #133 of 143 Official leaderboard
DesignArena Data Visualization 989 #113 of 118 Official leaderboard
DesignArena 3D Design 837 #134 of 136 Official leaderboard
SWE-Lancer Diamond (SWE Manager) 23% #4 of 4 Lab model card

Agents and tools

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
SnakeBench 35 #11 of 188 Official leaderboard
SnorkelWordle 91.9% #4 of 19 Official leaderboard
lmgame-Bench 45.2 #5 of 23 Official leaderboard
BFCL V4 53.2% #17 of 65 Official leaderboard
LLM Chess 440 #45 of 123 Official leaderboard
Galileo Agent Leaderboard 0.89 #11 of 29 Official leaderboard
Step Race 3 #26 of 59 Official leaderboard
BrowseComp-ZH 15.2% #4 of 9 Official leaderboard
MM-BrowseComp 7.00% #5 of 11 Official leaderboard
LisanBench 800.0 #61 of 133 Official leaderboard
MCP-Universe 26% #14 of 30 Official leaderboard
VITA-Bench 19.5% #10 of 18 Official leaderboard
GAIA 42.5% #36 of 64 Official leaderboard
TextQuests 18.6 #17 of 28 Official leaderboard
Chess Puzzles 22% #61 of 93 Epoch AI run
AgentBench FC 39.7% #8 of 12 Official leaderboard
MCPMark 17.3% #19 of 28 Official leaderboard
tau-bench 57.4% #16 of 23 Lab model card
Elimination Game 3 #44 of 56 Official leaderboard
tau2-bench 56.9% #8 of 10 Official leaderboard
Toolathlon 14.8% #44 of 50 Official leaderboard
VitaBench 2.0 27% #16 of 17 Official leaderboard
Mystery Game Puzzles 5.00% #81 of 84 Epoch AI run
BrowseComp 28.3% #79 of 81 Lab model card
DeepPlanning 13.7% #15 of 15 Official leaderboard
CocoaBench 3.30% #6 of 6 Official leaderboard

Professional work

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
MedHELM 69.7 #2 of 13 Official leaderboard
TaxEval v2 74.8% #29 of 129 Official leaderboard
CadEval 62% #3 of 13 Official leaderboard
SnorkelUnderwrite 78% #7 of 27 Official leaderboard
FinQA (Snorkel OpenEnv environment) 76.6% #8 of 22 Official leaderboard
SnorkelFinance 76.6% #8 of 22 Official leaderboard
xbench-Recruitment 61.4 #3 of 8 Official leaderboard
Finance Reasoning (Snorkel) 45.6% #9 of 21 Official leaderboard
Vals Finance Agent v1 35.9% #21 of 47 Official leaderboard
FailureSensorIQ 64.8% #11 of 24 Official leaderboard
MortgageTax 64.8% #43 of 87 Official leaderboard
ProfBench 47.5% #37 of 72 Official leaderboard
CorpFin v2 59% #76 of 119 Official leaderboard
LegalBench 79.2% #92 of 138 Official leaderboard
GDPval 27.9% #4 of 5 Official leaderboard
MedCode 33.8% #77 of 96 Official leaderboard
PRBench 38.1% #41 of 48 Official leaderboard
xbench-Marketing 43.5 #6 of 7 Official leaderboard
MedScribe 69.1% #86 of 97 Official leaderboard

Vision, audio and robotics

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
CharXiv (DQ) 94.3% #2 of 67 Official leaderboard
VisualPuzzles 57% #1 of 29 Official leaderboard
MMMU 81.6% #5 of 136 Official leaderboard
VISTA 51.8% #5 of 54 Official leaderboard
VHELM 76.0 #4 of 41 Official leaderboard
MM-HELIX 75.2% #2 of 17 Official leaderboard
MicroVQA 55.6% #3 of 19 Official leaderboard
MME-CC 35% #2 of 12 Official leaderboard
MME-Reasoning 57.5% #2 of 11 Official leaderboard
MORSE-500 22.2% #2 of 11 Official leaderboard
VPCT 57.5% #6 of 27 VPCT leaderboard, via Epoch AI
VideoReasonBench 10.7% #4 of 14 Official leaderboard
MathVista 84.3% #21 of 70 Lab model card
MATH-Vision (MathVision) 58% #40 of 105 Official leaderboard
ChartMuseum 61.5% #8 of 21 Official leaderboard
VLMsAreBiased 22.3% #2 of 5 Official leaderboard
ZeroBench 11% #36 of 76 Official leaderboard
CaP-X (CaP-Bench) 15.3% #5 of 10 Official leaderboard
ViVerBench 72.7% #4 of 8 Official leaderboard
Vision Arena 1,201 #77 of 136 Official leaderboard
VisFactor 23.2% #16 of 26 Official leaderboard
GeoBench 64% #32 of 48 Official leaderboard
CharXiv 72% #53 of 75 Lab model card
ERQA 30.7% #16 of 17 Official leaderboard

Safety and security

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
HELM Safety 97.3 #10 of 75 Official leaderboard
Multimodal Troubleshooting Virology 58% #4 of 27 Lab model card
SimpleSafetyTests 100% #12 of 75 Official leaderboard
Capture the Flag (Collegiate) 48% #3 of 13 Lab model card
AIR-Bench 2024 78.5% #26 of 82 Official leaderboard
Capture the Flag (High School) 80% #3 of 9 Lab model card
Apollo Research sabotage evaluations 0.17 #1 of 3 Lab model card
Spiral-Bench v1.2 53.6 #8 of 21 Official leaderboard
Spiral-Bench v1.0 73.3 #5 of 13 Official leaderboard
Lakera B3 (Backbone Breaker Benchmark) 59.6% #14 of 35 Official leaderboard
First-Person Fairness evaluation 0.70% #4 of 10 Lab model card
Virology Capabilities Test (VCT) 37% #3 of 7 Official leaderboard
Human Pathogen Capabilities Test 54.5% #37 of 86 Official leaderboard
FORTRESS 21.5% #34 of 73 Official leaderboard
World-Class Bio 47.5% #35 of 74 Official leaderboard
StrongREJECT 96% #9 of 19 Lab model card
Molecular Biology Capabilities Test 48.9% #45 of 90 Official leaderboard
Human Sourced Jailbreaks 99% #4 of 8 Lab model card
Capture the Flag (Professional) 41% #11 of 21 Lab model card
Tacit Knowledge and Troubleshooting 68% #21 of 30 Lab model card
Anthropic Red Team 98.2% #53 of 75 Official leaderboard
Challenging Refusal Evaluation 90% #7 of 9 Lab model card
ProtocolQA Open-Ended 27% #22 of 27 Lab model card
Cyber Range 0% #9 of 10 Lab model card
CyberGym 2.46% #31 of 34 Official leaderboard
Image generation refusals 98% #2 of 2 Lab model card

Other

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
HELM Capabilities 81.2 #2 of 60 Official leaderboard
CAIS Risk Index 35.9 #10 of 67 Official leaderboard
ACCoRD 63.8 #79 of 152 Official leaderboard
Conceptual Reasoning Index 41.2 #97 of 151 Official leaderboard
LMCA 26.5% #99 of 147 Official leaderboard
SAGE (Vals) 41.1% #57 of 81 Official leaderboard
CAIS Text Capabilities Index 15.4 #59 of 68 Official leaderboard
CAIS Vision Capabilities Index 36.8 #49 of 53 Official leaderboard

Its lab's numbers put it at 137.7, 7.6 points below its ECI

The Self-Reported Index fits one score to the 18 capability results OpenAI reported for this model, on the scale of the Epoch Capabilities Index. Labs choose which benchmarks to show and how to run them, so read it as the lab's claim, not an independent measurement. The 90% interval runs from 135.6 to 139.8. How we compute it.

Its lab's numbers next to 9 leaderboards

Where the benchmark's own leaderboard, or Epoch AI's run, also has this model. Gaps mostly come from different harnesses, effort levels and task subsets. Every pair.

Benchmark Lab says Board says Gap
SWE-bench Verified 69% SWE-bench Verified (n=477), pass@1, o4-mini no browsing launch candidate, printed chart label (Figure 19) 64.6% Leaderboard, PatchPilot-v1.1 +4.4 pts
Aider Polyglot 68.9% Aider Polyglot whole 68.9 (diff 58.2), o4-mini-high 72% Leaderboard, high, aider, diff edits −3.1 pts
MultiChallenge 43% Scale MultiChallenge 44.9% Leaderboard, high −1.9 pts
GPQA Diamond 81.4% GPQA Diamond (no tools) 79.6% Epoch AI run, high +1.8 pts
AIME 2025 92.7% AIME 2025 (no tools) 91.7% Leaderboard, high +1.0 pts
Humanity's Last Exam 17.7% Best of HLE no tools 14.28 / with python + browsing tools 17.7 18.1% Leaderboard, high −0.4 pts
SimpleQA 20% SimpleQA, accuracy (Table 4) 20.2% Leaderboard −0.2 pts
CharXiv 72% CharXiv-Reasoning 72% Leaderboard, high Same
MMMU 81.6% MMMU 81.6% Leaderboard Same

OpenAI's models over time

OpenAI's models in color, against every other model on the Epoch Capabilities Index, by release date.

50 100 150 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027 GPT-6.1 Terra GPT-6 Luna GPT-5.4 Mini GPT-5.2 Pro GPT-5 GPT-5 nano GPT-4.1 nano 50 100 150 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027 GPT-6.1 Terra GPT-6 Luna

Source: Epoch Capabilities Index, Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0)

Its launch post

The benchmarks the lab chose to headline, with the scores it gave.

Its system card

Every result in the longer documents the lab published with it. 33 of them aren't in the launch post.

Capabilities

Autonomy