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o3 Mini vs Llama 3.2 90B

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Winner summary

o3 Mini wins 3 of 3 shared benchmarks. Leads in knowledge · math.

Category leads
knowledge·o3 Minimath·o3 Mini
Hype vs Reality
o3 Mini
#151 by perf·no signal
QUIET
Llama 3.2 90B
#164 by perf·no signal
QUIET
Best value
o3 Mini
14.0 pts/$
$2.75/M
Llama 3.2 90B
no price
Vendor risk
OpenAI logo
OpenAI
$840.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
Meta logo
Meta AI
$1.50T·Tier 1
Low risk
Head to head
o3 MiniLlama 3.2 90B
GPQA diamond
o3 Mini leads by +48.0
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
o3 Mini
69.4
Llama 3.2 90B
21.4
MATH level 5
o3 Mini leads by +57.0
MATH Level 5 · the hardest tier of the MATH benchmark, featuring competition-level problems from AMC, AIME, and Olympiad-style mathematics.
o3 Mini
96.5
Llama 3.2 90B
39.4
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025
o3 Mini leads by +74.4
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 · simulated American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced problem-solving skills.
o3 Mini
76.9
Llama 3.2 90B
2.5
Full benchmark table
Benchmarko3 MiniLlama 3.2 90B
GPQA diamond
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
69.421.4
MATH level 5
MATH Level 5 · the hardest tier of the MATH benchmark, featuring competition-level problems from AMC, AIME, and Olympiad-style mathematics.
96.539.4
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 · simulated American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced problem-solving skills.
76.92.5
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
OpenAI logoo3 Mini$1.10$4.40200K tokens (~100 books)$19.25
Meta logoLlama 3.2 90B