What do people complain about with o3 Mini High?

Sometimes makes things up People find it expensive

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o3 Mini High

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by OpenAI

CLOSEDHOSTEDAPILONG CONTEXTPAIDREASONING

RANKED #66 OF 318 ASSISTANTS · OVERALL #90 OF 493 RANKED · VIBE SCORE 6.2 · 465 VOICES · ranks as of 22:24 UTC · 25 Oct 2026

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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

103 mentions

SAD5.8

79 mentions

VIBE TRAJECTORY

26 weeks · 108 voices in this window

HOLDING UP

Recent vibe is steady. No clear fade in the crowd.

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.

WHAT THE INTERNET SAYS

The internet is split on o3 Mini High. Biggest praise: help with code. Biggest gripe: getting facts right.

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PEOPLE LOVE

Popular for coding help (5 mentions)

PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT

Sometimes makes things up (5 mentions)
People find it expensive (3 mentions)

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Getting facts rightA SORE SPOT
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Help with codePEOPLE LOVE THIS
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LOOKING FOR AN ALTERNATIVE?

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REDDIT · 2025-06-14 · 815 UPVOTES
LLM 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 UPVOTES
AI will kill software.
AI will kill software.
REDDIT · 2025-02-03 · 441 UPVOTES
o3-mini-high is insane
o3-mini-high is insane
REDDIT · 2025-02-09 · 439 UPVOTES
o3-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 UPVOTES
Flappy 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 UPVOTES
o3-mini-high reasoning
o3-mini-high reasoning
REDDIT · 2025-02-05 · 258 UPVOTES
Give 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 UPVOTES
The first non trivial research mathematics proof done by AI
The first non trivial research mathematics proof done by AI
REDDIT · 2025-04-11 · 209 UPVOTES
We are not the same
We are not the same
REDDIT · 2025-01-31 · 196 UPVOTES
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…
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 UPVOTES
Think 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 UPVOTES
Google 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

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