AI Models · Paid vs Paid

o3 Paid vs SCExtract Paid

o3 vs Extract compared — price per token, context window, multimodality, openness and which to choose. Full 2026 breakdown.

Prices & specs refreshed from live data · olud.ai

Open-model prices = cheapest provider via OpenRouter; official maker rates may be higher.

o3PaidOpenAI
$2 /M input
$8 /M outputManaged API (no infra to run)
TypeProprietary
Context window200K tokens
MultimodalYes
Self-hostNo
SCExtractPaidScaledown
$0.04 /M input
Free /M outputManaged API (no infra to run)
TypeProprietary
Context window1M tokens
MultimodalYes
Self-hostNo
Choose Extract for the lower output price (Free/M vs $8/M). It also gives you the larger 1M context window.

o3 vs Extract specs

Speco3ExtractWinner
MakerOpenAIScaledown–
TypeProprietaryProprietary–
Context window200K tokens1M tokensSCExtract
Input price$2/M$0.04/MSCExtract
Output price$8/MFree/MSCExtract
Vision / multimodalYesYes= Tie
Tool / function callingYesNoo3
Self-hostableNo (API only)No (API only)–
LicenseProprietaryProprietary–

Price gap & when to choose each

Choose o3 if…
  • You want frontier performance through a managed API
  • You value reliability & ecosystem
  • You don't want to manage infrastructure
SCChoose Extract if…
  • You want frontier performance through a managed API
  • You need the longer 1M context window
  • You want the lower output price
  • You value reliability & ecosystem
  • You don't want to manage infrastructure

Feature comparison

Capabilityo3Extract
Open weights (downloadable)✗✗
Self-hostable✗✗
Runs fully offline✗✗
Vision / multimodal✓✓
Tool / function calling✓✗
1M+ context window✗✓

Benchmarks: o3 vs Extract

Independent benchmark scores measured by Artificial Analysis. Higher is better (except latency).

o3
Extract
Intelligence index
20.2
–
Math index
88.3
–
GPQA
82.7%
–
MMLU-Pro
85.3%
–
Humanity's Last Exam
20.1%
–
Long Context Reasoning
74.7%
–
LiveCodeBench
80.8%
–
MATH-500
99.2%
–
AIME
90.3%
–
AIME 2025
88.3%
–
IFBench
71.4%
–
τ²-Bench
80.7%
–
Terminal-Bench Hard
37.1%
–
Speed
150 tok/s
–
Latency
3.53s
–
Intelligence per $
5.8
–

Benchmark data by Artificial Analysis.

How o3 and Extract score

🤝 Neck and neck on these criteria (3.0 vs 3.2 / 5).
Criteriono3Extract
Cost-efficiency3.55.0
Context window4.05.0
Openness1.51.5
Self-hosting1.01.0
Multimodality5.03.5

Scores come from live data — output price (cost), context length, open vs closed weights (openness & self-hosting) and vision/tool support (multimodality). Raw task quality isn't scored here; it depends on your benchmark — see the verdict.

What each model is

o3 Paid

OpenAI · Proprietary

o3 is a well-rounded and powerful model across domains. It sets a new standard for math, science, coding, and visual reasoning tasks. It also excels at technical writing and instruction-following....

Extract Paid

Scaledown · Proprietary

Extract is a description-driven entity extraction model from ScaleDown. Instead of a fixed set of entity types, callers describe the fields they want in plain English through `provider.options.scaledown.entities`, and the...

Other models in these families

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Other variants tracked
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Frequently asked questions

o3 vs Extract — which is cheaper?

Extract is cheaper on output (Free/M vs $8/M).

Which has the larger context window?

Extract offers the larger context window (1M tokens).

o3 vs Extract — which should I pick in 2026?

Choose Extract for the lower output price (Free/M vs $8/M). It also gives you the larger 1M context window.

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