one year on
OpenAI launches o3-pro reasoning model
The company’s most capable model arrives for ChatGPT Pro and Team subscribers and in the API at $20 per million input tokens and $80 per million output tokens.
OpenAI today released o3-pro, a more powerful version of its o3 reasoning model, for ChatGPT Pro and Team subscribers. O3-pro replaces o1-pro in the model picker and costs $20 per million input tokens and $80 per million output tokens in the API.
The two moves, announced simultaneously, highlight a tug-of-war in OpenAI’s strategy: pushing the frontier with a premium model while racing to commoditize reasoning capabilities as competitors like Google and Anthropic release their own advanced models.
In internal evaluations, o3-pro outperforms o3 across all tested categories and beats Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro on the AIME 2024 math benchmark and Anthropic’s Claude 4 Opus on GPQA Diamond, a PhD-level science test. The model supports web search, file analysis, vision, and Python execution. Drawbacks include longer response times than o1-pro, no image generation, and temporary chat being disabled for now.
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Within six months, o3-pro became the default reasoning model for Pro users, but the 80% price cut on o3 reshaped the API market, forcing competitors to slash prices and accelerating the adoption of reasoning models in production applications.