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OpenAI · GPT-5.3

GPT-5.3 Codex

Closed weightsGenerally availableproprietary

OpenAI's most recent Codex-branded coding model on the API; newer general models now outscore it.

AA Intelligence
32.5#37 of 142
Input / output per 1M
$1.75/ $14.00
Output speed
120tok/s
Context window
400K tokens

Composite indexes

  • Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index#37 of 142
    33independentAA Intelligence Index v4.3.2, xhighArtificial Analysis: GPT-5.3 Codex (xhigh) ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 58

Agents and tool use

  • τ²-Bench#25 of 88
    86%independenttelecom (AA), xhighArtificial Analysis: GPT-5.3 Codex (xhigh) ↗

    Leader: GLM-5.2 at 99.1%

Reasoning and knowledge

  • Humanity’s Last Exam#27 of 147
    42.5%independentno tools (AA), xhighArtificial Analysis: GPT-5.3 Codex (xhigh) ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 61.4%

  • GPQA Diamond#28 of 142
    91.5%independentAA, xhighArtificial Analysis: GPT-5.3 Codex (xhigh) ↗

    Leader: GPT-6 Astra at 96.1%

  • CritPt#26 of 139
    16.9%independentxhighArtificial Analysis: GPT-5.3 Codex (xhigh) ↗

    Leader: GPT-5.6 Sol at 32.3%

Vision and long context

  • AA Long Context Reasoning#11 of 139
    83.3%independentxhighArtificial Analysis: GPT-5.3 Codex (xhigh) ↗

    Leader: Kimi K3 at 88.7%

  • MMMU-Pro#25 of 72
    78.5%independentAA, xhighArtificial Analysis: GPT-5.3 Codex (xhigh) ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 87.7%

Other published results

ResultScoreReported bySource
AA-Omniscience Index · xhigh10.9 index (-100 to 100)independentArtificial Analysis: GPT-5.3 Codex (xhigh) ↗

Specs

Released
February 5, 2026
Parameters
Undisclosed
Size class
Undisclosed
Input
text, image
Output
text
Context
400K tokens
Max output
128K tokens
Cached input
$0.175 / 1M
Blended 70/30
$5.425 / 1M
First token
67.40s
  • Price: OpenAI API pricing ↗ Standard (Codex section of pricing page).
  • Speed: Artificial Analysis: GPT-5.3 Codex (xhigh) (median output speed; TTFT is time to first chunk incl. reasoning) ↗

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