The career for artificial intelligence had been narrowing for months. Gemini 2.5 Pro, Claude 4 Opus and Deepseek R1 had managed to cut distances with OpenAi models, presenting increasingly sophisticated reasoning. The overwhelming domain of 2022, when Chatgpt left the competition bewildered and several steps behind, no longer defines the current board. Today, the fight is direct.
But the firm led by Sam Altman has not been still. It has just announced O3-Pro, a new reasoning model with which, at least on paper, it intends to reaffirm its leadership position in the industry. It is available today only for some plans, excluding chatgpt plus of $ 20 per month. Access to the most advanced AI has a Price.
More tools and more context. The O3-Pro model part of the same base as O3, but with an additional stage of reinforcement training and more inference resources. It incorporates full access to the tools that have made chatgpt a more useful tool: web search, file analysis, images about Python and customization through memory.
These are functions that allow you to adapt the responses to the user’s history, access external sources in real time and solve complex tasks in several steps. Has:
- Search, code, document analysis and vision
- Customization based on active memory
- Context window of up to 200,000 tokens and maximum output of 100,000
More precise, but not faster. Of course, O3-Pro is not a model designed for speed. The answers usually take more than in O1-Pro, but in return promises to offer a plus in precision focused on complex tasks. Openai recommends using it when reliability is more important than speed.
So we could say that it is a model designed for those who need things to go well, even if that implies waiting for a few more seconds. In any case, we are talking about AI models, so hallucinations can still exist and can give us erroneous information.
Theoretically superior performance. According to internal OpenAI tests, human evaluators prefer O3-Pro against O3 in all tested categories: science, education, programming, personal writing and data analysis.
It also achieves better results in academic Benchmarks: in competitive mathematics it rises from 86 % of 93 % O1-PRO, and in programming exceeds 2,700 EL points, compared to the 2,517 of O3 and the 1,707 of O1-Pro.
Available now, but not for everyone. O3-PRO is now available for Users of the Pro Plan (200 dollars per month) and the Team Plan, where it replaces O1-PRO in the model selector. OpenAI has confirmed that Enterprise users and educational accounts will have access from next week.
At the moment, access to the most powerful models is still restricted to those who pay for the most advanced modalities. The Plus Plan of 20 dollars per month, the most popular among private users, is not mentioned. And everything indicates that, for now, it will be out of this update.
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