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o3-mini

o3-mini

also answers to: o3-mini-2025-01-31

2025-01-31still running · lived 1 year, 6 months · plot reserved

The first reasoning model OpenAI gave away: free ChatGPT users got it on the day it launched, which meant a great many people used a model that thinks before it answers without ever choosing one. Reasoning stopped being a paid tier that January. Its shutdown is 23 October.

Provider
OpenAI
Cause of death
Superseded
Funeral
2026-10-23
Succeeded by
o4-mini

“Succeeded by” is this site’s reading of model lineage, not the provider’s official migration guidance.

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