OpenAI o1
Long chain-of-thought reasoning — unbeatable on hard math and code.
At a glance
- Context window
- 200k tokens
- Max output
- 100k tokens
- Input price
- $15.00 / 1M tokens
- Output price
- $60.00 / 1M tokens
- Time to first token
- 12s
- Input modalities
- text, image
- Output modalities
- text
- License
- Proprietary
- Provider
- OpenAI
Benchmark scores
Public scores from each provider; bars compare this model against the leader in each benchmark.
- Tops MATH and GPQA leaderboards
- Self-checks its work
- Very slow
- Very expensive
- Overkill for simple tasks
- Research problems
- Olympiad-level math
- Algorithm design
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