Composer 2 vs o3

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

o3 is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 68 to 62. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

o3's sharpest advantage is in agentic, where it averages 69.2 against 61.7.

o3 is also the more expensive model on tokens at $10.00 input / $40.00 output per 1M tokens, versus $0.50 input / $2.50 output per 1M tokens for Composer 2. That is roughly 16.0x on output cost alone.

Quick Verdict

Pick o3 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Composer 2 only becomes the better choice if you want the cheaper token bill.

Agentic

o3

Composer 2

61.7

o3

69.2

61.7%
Terminal-Bench 2.0
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BrowseComp
75%
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OSWorld-Verified
65%

Coding

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73.7%
SWE Multilingual
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97.2%
React Native Evals
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HumanEval
78%
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SWE-bench Verified
71.7%
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LiveCodeBench
40%

Multimodal & Grounded

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MMMU-Pro
70%
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OfficeQA Pro
75%

Reasoning

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MuSR
82%
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LongBench v2
82%
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MRCRv2
81%
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ARC-AGI-2
3%

Knowledge

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MMLU
86%
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GPQA
87%
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SuperGPQA
85%
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MMLU-Pro
75%
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HLE
24%
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SimpleQA
84%

Instruction Following

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IFEval
85%

Multilingual

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MGSM
83%
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MMLU-ProX
80%

Mathematics

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AIME 2023
88%
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AIME 2024
90%
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AIME 2025
89%
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HMMT Feb 2023
84%
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HMMT Feb 2024
86%
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HMMT Feb 2025
85%
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BRUMO 2025
87%
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MATH-500
88%

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Composer 2 or o3?

o3 is ahead overall, 68 to 62.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Composer 2 or o3?

o3 has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 69.2 versus 61.7. Composer 2 stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.

Last updated: March 18, 2026

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