OpenAI's o3-mini-high model has emerged as the leading choice for coding tasks, outperforming competitors such as DeepSeek R1, o1, and Claude Sonnet 3.5 in various benchmarks. On LiveBench, o3-mini-high achieved a coding average score of 82.74, significantly higher than o1's 69.69, Claude 3.5 Sonnet's 67.13, and DeepSeek R1's 66.74. The model's performance, combined with its speed and cost-effectiveness—being approximately 2 times cheaper than Sonnet and 15 times cheaper than o1, while also being about 5 times faster than other models—is expected to shift coding workloads towards o3-mini-high.