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GPT-5.1 vs o3

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Winner summary

GPT-5.1 wins 19 of 26 shared benchmarks. Leads in agentic · reasoning · general.

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agentic·GPT-5.1reasoning·GPT-5.1knowledge·o3general·GPT-5.1math·GPT-5.1coding·GPT-5.1language·GPT-5.1
Hype vs Reality
GPT-5.1
#138 by perf·#4 by attention
DESERVED
o3
#111 by perf·no signal
QUIET
Best value
1.2x better value than GPT-5.1
GPT-5.1
8.6 pts/$
$5.63/M
o3
10.2 pts/$
$5.00/M
Vendor risk
OpenAI logo
OpenAI
$840.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
OpenAI logo
OpenAI
$840.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
Head to head
GPT-5.1o3
APEX-Agents
GPT-5.1 leads by +0.3
APEX-Agents · evaluates AI agents on complex, multi-step tasks requiring planning, tool use, and autonomous decision-making in realistic environments.
GPT-5.1
17.5
o3
17.2
ARC-AGI
GPT-5.1 leads by +12.0
ARC-AGI · the original Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing whether AI can solve novel visual pattern recognition tasks without memorization.
GPT-5.1
72.8
o3
60.8
ARC-AGI-2
GPT-5.1 leads by +11.1
ARC-AGI-2 · the second iteration of the Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing novel pattern recognition and abstract reasoning without prior training data.
GPT-5.1
17.6
o3
6.5
Chess Puzzles
o3 leads by +6.3
Chess Puzzles · tests strategic and tactical reasoning by having models solve chess puzzle positions, evaluating lookahead and pattern recognition abilities.
GPT-5.1
28.4
o3
34.8
Cl Bench
GPT-5.1 leads by +5.9
GPT-5.1
23.7
o3
17.8
DeepResearch Bench
o3 leads by +2.4
DeepResearch Bench · evaluates AI on complex multi-step research tasks requiring information gathering, synthesis, and producing comprehensive analyses.
GPT-5.1
42.8
o3
45.2
Dtbench
GPT-5.1 leads by +8.9
GPT-5.1
83.5
o3
74.7
FrontierMath-2025-02-28-Private
GPT-5.1 leads by +35.8
FrontierMath (Feb 2025) · original research-level math problems created by mathematicians, testing capabilities at the boundary of current AI mathematical reasoning.
GPT-5.1
54.5
o3
18.7
FrontierMath-Tier-4-2025-07-01-Private
GPT-5.1 leads by +17.4
FrontierMath Tier 4 (Jul 2025) · the most challenging tier of frontier mathematics, containing problems that push the absolute limits of AI mathematical reasoning.
GPT-5.1
20.8
o3
3.5
GPQA diamond
GPT-5.1 leads by +7.7
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
GPT-5.1
83.5
o3
75.8
GSO-Bench
GPT-5.1 leads by +4.9
GSO-Bench · evaluates AI models on real-world open-source software engineering tasks, testing the ability to understand and resolve actual GitHub issues.
GPT-5.1
13.7
o3
8.8
HELM · GPQA
o3 leads by +31.1
GPT-5.1
44.2
o3
75.3
HELM · IFEval
GPT-5.1 leads by +6.6
GPT-5.1
93.5
o3
86.9
HELM · MMLU-Pro
o3 leads by +28.0
GPT-5.1
57.9
o3
85.9
HELM · Omni-MATH
o3 leads by +25.0
GPT-5.1
46.4
o3
71.4
HELM · WildBench
GPT-5.1 leads by +0.2
GPT-5.1
86.3
o3
86.1
HLE
GPT-5.1 leads by +3.5
HLE (Humanity's Last Exam) · a reasoning benchmark designed to be the hardest public evaluation of AI. Questions span mathematics, physics, philosophy, and logic · curated to be at or beyond the frontier of human expert capability. Tested with and without tool augmentation. Claude Opus 4.7 scores 46.9% without tools and 54.7% with tools · making it one of the few benchmarks where the top score is below 60%.
GPT-5.1
19.8
o3
16.3
Lmca
GPT-5.1 leads by +4.9
GPT-5.1
51.6
o3
46.7
Mystery Game Puzzles
o3 leads by +11.0
GPT-5.1
10.8
o3
21.8
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025
GPT-5.1 leads by +4.2
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 · simulated American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced problem-solving skills.
GPT-5.1
88.6
o3
84.4
SimpleBench
GPT-5.1 leads by +0.1
SimpleBench · tests fundamental reasoning capabilities with straightforward problems designed to expose gaps in basic logical and spatial thinking.
GPT-5.1
43.8
o3
43.7
SimpleQA Verified
o3 leads by +1.4
SimpleQA Verified · short factual questions with verified answers, measuring factual accuracy and the tendency to hallucinate or provide incorrect information.
GPT-5.1
48.0
o3
49.4
SWE-Bench verified
GPT-5.1 leads by +5.7
SWE-bench Verified · 500 human-validated tasks from 12 real Python repositories (Django, Flask, scikit-learn, sympy, and others). Each task requires the model to produce a git patch that resolves a real GitHub issue and passes the test suite. The verified subset eliminates ambiguous tasks from the original SWE-bench. Claude Mythos Preview leads at 93.9%, crossing 90% for the first time in 2026. Opus 4.6 scores 80.8%. The benchmark remains the most-cited evaluation for code-generation capability.
GPT-5.1
68.0
o3
62.3
SWE-Bench Verified (Bash Only)
GPT-5.1 leads by +7.6
SWE-Bench Verified (Bash Only) · a curated subset of SWE-bench where models fix real Python repository bugs using only bash commands, no agent frameworks.
GPT-5.1
66.0
o3
58.4
VPCT
GPT-5.1 leads by +10.0
VPCT (Visual Pattern Completion Test) · tests visual reasoning and pattern recognition by having models complete visual sequences and transformations.
GPT-5.1
38.0
o3
28.0
WeirdML
GPT-5.1 leads by +8.4
WeirdML · tests models on unusual and adversarial machine learning tasks that require creative problem-solving beyond standard patterns.
GPT-5.1
60.8
o3
52.4
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkGPT-5.1o3
APEX-Agents
APEX-Agents · evaluates AI agents on complex, multi-step tasks requiring planning, tool use, and autonomous decision-making in realistic environments.
17.517.2
ARC-AGI
ARC-AGI · the original Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing whether AI can solve novel visual pattern recognition tasks without memorization.
72.860.8
ARC-AGI-2
ARC-AGI-2 · the second iteration of the Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing novel pattern recognition and abstract reasoning without prior training data.
17.66.5
Chess Puzzles
Chess Puzzles · tests strategic and tactical reasoning by having models solve chess puzzle positions, evaluating lookahead and pattern recognition abilities.
28.434.8
Cl Bench
23.717.8
DeepResearch Bench
DeepResearch Bench · evaluates AI on complex multi-step research tasks requiring information gathering, synthesis, and producing comprehensive analyses.
42.845.2
Dtbench
83.574.7
FrontierMath-2025-02-28-Private
FrontierMath (Feb 2025) · original research-level math problems created by mathematicians, testing capabilities at the boundary of current AI mathematical reasoning.
54.518.7
FrontierMath-Tier-4-2025-07-01-Private
FrontierMath Tier 4 (Jul 2025) · the most challenging tier of frontier mathematics, containing problems that push the absolute limits of AI mathematical reasoning.
20.83.5
GPQA diamond
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
83.575.8
GSO-Bench
GSO-Bench · evaluates AI models on real-world open-source software engineering tasks, testing the ability to understand and resolve actual GitHub issues.
13.78.8
HELM · GPQA
44.275.3
HELM · IFEval
93.586.9
HELM · MMLU-Pro
57.985.9
HELM · Omni-MATH
46.471.4
HELM · WildBench
86.386.1
HLE
HLE (Humanity's Last Exam) · a reasoning benchmark designed to be the hardest public evaluation of AI. Questions span mathematics, physics, philosophy, and logic · curated to be at or beyond the frontier of human expert capability. Tested with and without tool augmentation. Claude Opus 4.7 scores 46.9% without tools and 54.7% with tools · making it one of the few benchmarks where the top score is below 60%.
19.816.3
Lmca
51.646.7
Mystery Game Puzzles
10.821.8
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 · simulated American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced problem-solving skills.
88.684.4
SimpleBench
SimpleBench · tests fundamental reasoning capabilities with straightforward problems designed to expose gaps in basic logical and spatial thinking.
43.843.7
SimpleQA Verified
SimpleQA Verified · short factual questions with verified answers, measuring factual accuracy and the tendency to hallucinate or provide incorrect information.
48.049.4
SWE-Bench verified
SWE-bench Verified · 500 human-validated tasks from 12 real Python repositories (Django, Flask, scikit-learn, sympy, and others). Each task requires the model to produce a git patch that resolves a real GitHub issue and passes the test suite. The verified subset eliminates ambiguous tasks from the original SWE-bench. Claude Mythos Preview leads at 93.9%, crossing 90% for the first time in 2026. Opus 4.6 scores 80.8%. The benchmark remains the most-cited evaluation for code-generation capability.
68.062.3
SWE-Bench Verified (Bash Only)
SWE-Bench Verified (Bash Only) · a curated subset of SWE-bench where models fix real Python repository bugs using only bash commands, no agent frameworks.
66.058.4
VPCT
VPCT (Visual Pattern Completion Test) · tests visual reasoning and pattern recognition by having models complete visual sequences and transformations.
38.028.0
WeirdML
WeirdML · tests models on unusual and adversarial machine learning tasks that require creative problem-solving beyond standard patterns.
60.852.4
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
OpenAI logoGPT-5.1$1.25$10.00400K tokens (~200 books)$34.38
OpenAI logoo3$2.00$8.00200K tokens (~100 books)$35.00