OpenAI o3
OpenAI o3
Version: 2025-04-16
OpenAILast updated December 2025
o3 includes significant improvements on quality and safety while supporting the existing features of o1 and delivering comparable or better performance.
Multipurpose
Multilingual
Multimodal

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Key capabilities

About this model

o3 is the most capable reasoning model in the o model series, and the first one to offer full tools support for agentic solutions.

Key model capabilities

  • Multiple APIs support: o3 is available in Responses API and Chat Completions API with Responses API supporting seamless integration with multiple tools and enhanced transparency with the reasoning summary as part of the model output.
  • Reasoning summary: In the Responses API, o3 now supports reasoning summary in its output providing more insights into its thinking process. This enhances the explainability and the effectiveness of the resulting actions and tools that leverage the insights for even better outcomes.
  • Multimodality: With enhanced vision analysis capabilities, o3 expands its reasoning capability to process and analyze visual data, extracting valuable insights and generating comprehensive text outputs. This is supported in both Responses API and Chat Completions API.
  • Full tools support includes parallel tools calling: o3 is the first reasoning model with full tools support similar to the mainline models including parallel tool calling. Use o3 for the next generation of agentic solutions. This capability is supported in both Responses API and Chat Completions API.

Use cases

See Responsible AI for additional considerations for responsible use.

Key use cases

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Out of scope use cases

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Pricing

Pricing is based on a number of factors, including deployment type and tokens used. See pricing details here.

Technical specs

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Training cut-off date

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Training time

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Input formats

With enhanced vision analysis capabilities, o3 expands its reasoning capability to process and analyze visual data, extracting valuable insights and generating comprehensive text outputs.

Output formats

In the Responses API, o3 now supports reasoning summary in its output providing more insights into its thinking process.

Supported languages

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Sample JSON response

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Model architecture

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Long context

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Optimizing model performance

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Additional assets

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Training disclosure

Training, testing and validation

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Distribution

Distribution channels

This model is provided through the Azure OpenAI Service.

More information

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Responsible AI considerations

Safety techniques

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Safety evaluations

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Known limitations

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Acceptable use

Acceptable use policy

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Quality and performance evaluations

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Benchmarking methodology

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Public data summary

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Model Specifications
Context Length200000
Quality Index0.90
LicenseCustom
Training DataMay 2024
Last UpdatedDecember 2025
Input TypeText,Image
Output TypeText
ProviderOpenAI
Languages1 Language