When was O3 Mini released?

OpenAI released O3 Mini on 31 Jan 2025. It is available through the qynio gateway.

Does O3 Mini support zero data retention?

Not by default. See the per-route data-handling section for each route's logging stance and retention window.

Where is O3 Mini hosted?

O3 Mini runs on US hosting routes through the qynio gateway.

Is O3 Mini trained on prompts and outputs?

No. Every hosting route for O3 Mini is configured so customer prompts and outputs are not used to train models by default.

Is a no-KYC deposit available for O3 Mini?

Yes. A no-KYC Data Processing Agreement is available on at least one route serving O3 Mini. Contact hello@qyn.io to receive it.

O3 Mini

by OpenAI

Released 57 days after O1 · All OpenAI releases

O3 Mini is OpenAI's lighter-weight reasoning model, delivering strong reasoning at lower cost than full O3. Released January 31, 2025, it is optimized for science, mathematics, and coding challenges. The model exposes adjustable reasoning effort across three levels, low, medium, and high, so developers can tune how much computation each request spends: low for latency-sensitive tasks, medium for balanced performance, and high for harder problems that need deeper reasoning. O3 Mini supports structured outputs, function calling, and streaming, with a 200,000 token context window and up to 100,000 output tokens. It is text-only without vision, positioning it as an efficient option for reasoning workloads that do not need image input.

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Key info

Input

Output

Features

Context window

200K

Max output

100K

Input price

$1.10 /1M

Output price

$4.40 /1M

Released

31 Jan 2025

US residency available
No training by default
no-KYC deposit available

Available routes

O3 Mini runs on 2 different routes through the qynio gateway. Compare residency, zero retention, and training posture at a glance — full data-handling detail per route below.

Provider	Region	Zero data retention	Training	Input	Output
OpenAI	US	Not by default	No	$1.10	$4.40
OpenAI	US	Not by default	No	$1.10	$4.40

Uptime and availability

O3 Mini runs on a single route through the qynio gateway today, so its availability is that provider's availability.

96.06%route uptime, last 30 days

Single route, no failover target within this model.

Name a second model in the same request and the gateway tries it on retriable errors, so a busy hour never has to reach your users. .

Measured over the last 30 days from each provider's official status feed via StatusGator. Refreshed hourly. See uptime for every provider qynio monitors.

Data handling per route

Each route hosting O3 Mini has its own privacy posture, residency, and no-KYC terms. Postures are maintained by qynio with a last-verification timestamp.

OpenAI — United States🇺🇸

Zero data retention is not on by default — abuse monitoring, 30-day retention. No training on customer data. US; wallets; deposit available.

Zero data retention: Not by default — abuse monitoring, 30-day retention. Derived from the logging and moderation facts.
Training: No training on customer data.
Logging: Abuse monitoring (30-day retention)
Moderation: Not established
Caching: Not established
Subprocessor access: Not established
no-KYC deposit: deposit available
Transfer mechanism: wallets

OpenAI — United States🇺🇸

Zero data retention is not on by default — abuse monitoring, 30-day retention. No training on customer data. US; wallets; deposit available.

Zero data retention: Not by default — abuse monitoring, 30-day retention. Derived from the logging and moderation facts.
Training: No training on customer data.
Logging: Abuse monitoring (30-day retention)
Moderation: Not established
Caching: Not established
Subprocessor access: Not established
no-KYC deposit: deposit available
Transfer mechanism: wallets

Benchmarks

Independent benchmark scores — composite indices for reasoning, coding, and math, plus individual eval scores where available.

Global rank#291 of 630 LLMs

TierEfficient

Intelligence Index19.2

Reasoning & knowledge

MMLU-Pro

79%

GPQA Diamond

75%

Humanity's Last Exam

Coding

LiveCodeBench

72%

SciCode

40%

Agentic & tool use

Terminal-Bench Hard

τ²-Bench Telecom

29%

See full leaderboard →Benchmarks via Artificial Analysis · View on AA

Get started

Call O3 Mini through the qynio gateway with one API key. Let your coding agent set it up, or call it directly — qynio is drop-in compatible with the OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google AI SDKs.

Set it up with your agent

Copy this and paste it into a coding agent like Claude Code, Cursor or Codex and it'll wire up qynio for you.

Or call it directly

1import OpenAI from "openai";
2
3const client = new OpenAI({
4  apiKey: process.env.QYN_API_KEY,
5  baseURL: "https://api.qyn.io/v3/compat",
6});
7
8const completion = await client.chat.completions.create({
9  model: "openai/o3-mini",
10  messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Hello" }],
11});
12console.log(completion.choices[0].message.content);