Composer 2 vs o3-mini

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

o3-mini is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 70 to 62. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

o3-mini's sharpest advantage is in agentic, where it averages 66.6 against 61.7. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is Terminal-Bench 2.0, 61.7% to 67%.

o3-mini is also the more expensive model on tokens at $1.10 input / $4.40 output per 1M tokens, versus $0.50 input / $2.50 output per 1M tokens for Composer 2.

Quick Verdict

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

Agentic

o3-mini

Composer 2

61.7

o3-mini

66.6

61.7%
Terminal-Bench 2.0
67%
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BrowseComp
74%
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OSWorld-Verified
61%

Coding

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73.7%
SWE Multilingual
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97.2%
React Native Evals
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SWE-bench Verified
49.3%
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SWE-bench Pro
57%

Multimodal & Grounded

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MMMU-Pro
73%
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OfficeQA Pro
76%

Reasoning

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LongBench v2
82%
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MRCRv2
80%

Knowledge

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MMLU
86.9%
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GPQA
77.2%
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FrontierScience
66%

Instruction Following

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IFEval
93.9%

Multilingual

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MMLU-ProX
73%

Mathematics

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AIME 2024
87.3%

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Composer 2 or o3-mini?

o3-mini is ahead overall, 70 to 62. The biggest single separator in this matchup is Terminal-Bench 2.0, where the scores are 61.7% and 67%.

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

o3-mini has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 66.6 versus 61.7. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 18, 2026

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