1-bit Bonsai 8B vs o3-pro

Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.

Agentic
Coding
Multimodal & Grounded
Reasoning
Knowledge
Instruction Following
Multilingual
Mathematics

1-bit Bonsai 8B· o3-pro

Quick Verdict

Pick o3-pro if you want the stronger benchmark profile. 1-bit Bonsai 8B only becomes the better choice if you would rather avoid the extra latency and token burn of a reasoning model.

o3-pro is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 67 to 50. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

o3-pro's sharpest advantage is in knowledge, where it averages 66.8 against 30. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is GPQA, 30% to 89%.

o3-pro is the reasoning model in the pair, while 1-bit Bonsai 8B is not. That usually helps on harder chain-of-thought-heavy tests, but it can also mean more latency and more token spend in real use. o3-pro gives you the larger context window at 200K, compared with 64K for 1-bit Bonsai 8B.

Operational tradeoffs

PriceFree*Pricing unavailable
SpeedN/A27 t/s
TTFTN/A84.93s
Context64K200K

Decision framing

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Runtime metrics show N/A when BenchLM does not have a sourced snapshot for that exact model. The scoring rules and freshness policy are documented on the methodology page.

Benchmark1-bit Bonsai 8Bo3-pro
Agentic
Terminal-Bench 2.069%
BrowseComp76%
OSWorld-Verified68%
Coding
HumanEval80%
LiveCodeBench44%
SWE-bench Pro55%
Multimodal & Grounded
MMMU-Pro70%
OfficeQA Pro79%
Reasoningo3-pro wins
MuSR50%84%
BBH89%
LongBench v281%
MRCRv281%
Knowledgeo3-pro wins
GPQA30%89%
MMLU88%
SuperGPQA87%
HLE26%
FrontierScience77%
SimpleQA86%
Instruction Followingo3-pro wins
IFEval79.8%82%
Multilingual
MGSM83%
MMLU-ProX80%
Mathematicso3-pro wins
MATH-50066%89%
AIME 202390%
AIME 202492%
AIME 202591%
HMMT Feb 202386%
HMMT Feb 202488%
HMMT Feb 202587%
BRUMO 202589%
Frequently Asked Questions (5)

Which is better, 1-bit Bonsai 8B or o3-pro?

o3-pro is ahead overall, 67 to 50. The biggest single separator in this matchup is GPQA, where the scores are 30% and 89%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, 1-bit Bonsai 8B or o3-pro?

o3-pro has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 66.8 versus 30. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, 1-bit Bonsai 8B or o3-pro?

o3-pro has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 89.8 versus 66. Inside this category, MATH-500 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, 1-bit Bonsai 8B or o3-pro?

o3-pro has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 81.8 versus 50. Inside this category, MuSR is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, 1-bit Bonsai 8B or o3-pro?

o3-pro has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 82 versus 79.8. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 31, 2026

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