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o3 Mini High
by OpenAI
CLOSEDHOSTEDAPILONG CONTEXTPAIDREASONING
RANKED #59 OF 244 ASSISTANTS · OVERALL #96 OF 6,530 · VIBE SCORE 6.3 · 302 VOICES
OpenAI o3-mini-high is the same model as [o3-mini](/openai/o3-mini) with reasoning_effort set to high. o3-mini is a cost-efficient language model optimized for STEM reasoning tasks, particularly excelling in science, mathematics, and...
HAPPY9.2
80 mentions
SAD5.8
62 mentions
VIBE TRAJECTORY
26 weeks · 33 voices
QUIETLY DEGRADING
Recent vibe and chatter are both sliding.
HOW TO USE IT
Closed model. OpenAI hosts it, so you use it through an app or an API.
PREFER OPEN SOURCE? THE CROWD HAS PICKS
o3 Mini High is closed, so you rent it. These open-weight models can genuinely stand in for it. Download once, own forever.
- OPEN WEIGHTS7.6
Qwen3.8 27BAlibabaPick for top-tier multimodal reasoning, coding, and vision at a much lower cost.🏆 NEAR-PEER QUALITY💻 STRONG AT CODE💸 COST EFFICIENT9.5k VOICESMATCH★★★ - OPEN WEIGHTS6.7
Mistral SmallMistralPick for speedy multimodal assistance and vision tasks on local or low-cost setups.⚡ FAST🪶 RUNS ON LESS🔒 PRIVATE & OFFLINE929 VOICESMATCH★★★
WHAT THE INTERNET SAYS
People are mostly happy with o3 Mini High. Biggest praise: help with code. Biggest gripe: getting facts right.
245 POSTS · 57 COMMENTS · REDDIT · DEV.TO · BLOG · LEMMY · GITHUB · X
PEOPLE LOVE
- Popular for coding help (4 mentions)
PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT
- Sometimes makes things up (2 mentions)
TOPIC BY TOPIC
- Help with codePEOPLE LOVE THIS
4 thumbs up · 0 thumbs down
- Getting facts rightA SORE SPOT
1 thumbs up · 2 thumbs down
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- REDDIT · 2025-06-14 · 815 UPVOTESLLM combo (GPT4.1 + o3-mini-high + Gemini 2.0 Flash) delivers superhuman performance by completing 12 work-years of systematic reviews in…
LLM combo (GPT4.1 + o3-mini-high + Gemini 2.0 Flash) delivers superhuman performance by completing 12 work-years of systematic reviews in just 2 days, offering scalable, mass reproducibility across the systematic review literature field
- REDDIT · 2025-02-15 · 487 UPVOTESAI will kill software.
AI will kill software.
- REDDIT · 2025-02-03 · 441 UPVOTESo3-mini-high is insane
o3-mini-high is insane
- REDDIT · 2025-02-09 · 439 UPVOTESo3-mini high now has 50 messages per day for plus users. is it the same for you?
o3-mini high now has 50 messages per day for plus users. is it the same for you?
- REDDIT · 2025-02-24 · 361 UPVOTESFlappy Bird One-Shot Claude 3.7 vs o3 Mini-High..
Flappy Bird One-Shot Claude 3.7 vs o3 Mini-High..
- REDDIT · 2025-01-31 · 291 UPVOTESo3-mini-high reasoning
o3-mini-high reasoning
- REDDIT · 2025-02-05 · 258 UPVOTESGive me a prompt for Deep Research and I'll run it for you!
Give me a prompt for Deep Research and I'll run it for you!
- REDDIT · 2025-04-13 · 235 UPVOTESThe first non trivial research mathematics proof done by AI
The first non trivial research mathematics proof done by AI
- REDDIT · 2025-04-11 · 209 UPVOTESWe are not the same
We are not the same
- REDDIT · 2025-01-31 · 196 UPVOTESo3-mini-high has a distinct quota different from o3-mini. The "150 a day" limit is for o3-mini specifically, as o3-mini-high is metered on…
o3-mini-high has a distinct quota different from o3-mini. The "150 a day" limit is for o3-mini specifically, as o3-mini-high is metered on a per-week basis.
- REDDIT · 2025-03-06 · 181 UPVOTESThink Deeper just got smarter. Now powered by o3-mini-high free in Copilot.
Think Deeper just got smarter. Now powered by o3-mini-high free in Copilot.
- REDDIT · 2025-03-27 · 180 UPVOTESGoogle cooked something amazing: better than o3-mini high and free to use
Google cooked something amazing: better than o3-mini high and free to use