diff --git a/Project.toml b/Project.toml
index 6d627abf2a..147db537d3 100644
--- a/Project.toml
+++ b/Project.toml
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ CodecBzip2 = "523fee87-0ab8-5b00-afb7-3ecf72e48cfd"
 CodecZlib = "944b1d66-785c-5afd-91f1-9de20f533193"
 DataStructures = "864edb3b-99cc-5e75-8d2d-829cb0a9cfe8"
 ForwardDiff = "f6369f11-7733-5829-9624-2563aa707210"
-JSON = "682c06a0-de6a-54ab-a142-c8b1cf79cde6"
+JSON3 = "0f8b85d8-7281-11e9-16c2-39a750bddbf1"
 LinearAlgebra = "37e2e46d-f89d-539d-b4ee-838fcccc9c8e"
 MutableArithmetics = "d8a4904e-b15c-11e9-3269-09a3773c0cb0"
 NaNMath = "77ba4419-2d1f-58cd-9bb1-8ffee604a2e3"
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ CodecBzip2 = "~0.6, 0.7, 0.8"
 CodecZlib = "~0.6, 0.7"
 DataStructures = "0.18"
 ForwardDiff = "0.5, 0.6, 0.7, 0.8, 0.9, 0.10"
-JSON = "~0.21"
+JSON3 = "1"
 JSONSchema = "1"
 LinearAlgebra = "<0.0.1, 1.6"
 MutableArithmetics = "1"
diff --git a/docs/src/submodules/FileFormats/overview.md b/docs/src/submodules/FileFormats/overview.md
index 3a77f8ee5a..1d75c96c95 100644
--- a/docs/src/submodules/FileFormats/overview.md
+++ b/docs/src/submodules/FileFormats/overview.md
@@ -114,22 +114,7 @@ MathOptInterface.Utilities.IndexMap with 1 entry:
 julia> MOI.write_to_file(dest, "file.mof.json")
 
 julia> print(read("file.mof.json", String))
-{
-  "name": "MathOptFormat Model",
-  "version": {
-    "major": 1,
-    "minor": 7
-  },
-  "variables": [
-    {
-      "name": "x1"
-    }
-  ],
-  "objective": {
-    "sense": "feasibility"
-  },
-  "constraints": []
-}
+{"name":"MathOptFormat Model","version":{"major":1,"minor":7},"variables":[{"name":"x1"}],"objective":{"sense":"feasibility"},"constraints":[]}
 ```
 
 ## Read from file
diff --git a/src/FileFormats/MOF/MOF.jl b/src/FileFormats/MOF/MOF.jl
index f6de179f28..b4dc9772c7 100644
--- a/src/FileFormats/MOF/MOF.jl
+++ b/src/FileFormats/MOF/MOF.jl
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 module MOF
 
 import ..FileFormats
-import JSON
+import JSON3
 import MathOptInterface as MOI
 
 """
diff --git a/src/FileFormats/MOF/read.jl b/src/FileFormats/MOF/read.jl
index 3ae49c735f..ab4efa1ded 100644
--- a/src/FileFormats/MOF/read.jl
+++ b/src/FileFormats/MOF/read.jl
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ function Base.read!(io::IO, model::Model)
     if !MOI.is_empty(model)
         error("Cannot read model from file as destination model is not empty.")
     end
-    object = JSON.parse(io; dicttype = Dict{String,Any})
+    object = JSON3.read(io, Dict{String,Any})
     file_version = _parse_mof_version(object["version"]::Dict{String,Any})
     if !(file_version in _SUPPORTED_VERSIONS)
         version = _SUPPORTED_VERSIONS[1]
diff --git a/src/FileFormats/MOF/write.jl b/src/FileFormats/MOF/write.jl
index f9477e5293..c229751b5c 100644
--- a/src/FileFormats/MOF/write.jl
+++ b/src/FileFormats/MOF/write.jl
@@ -29,8 +29,7 @@ function Base.write(io::IO, model::Model)
         objective = objective,
         constraints = constraints,
     )
-    indent = options.print_compact ? nothing : 2
-    Base.write(io, JSON.json(object, indent))
+    JSON3.write(io, object)
     return
 end
 
diff --git a/test/FileFormats/MOF/MOF.jl b/test/FileFormats/MOF/MOF.jl
index 662064cd6b..2263f479e9 100644
--- a/test/FileFormats/MOF/MOF.jl
+++ b/test/FileFormats/MOF/MOF.jl
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ module TestMOF
 
 using Test
 
-import JSON
+import JSON3
 import JSONSchema
 import MathOptInterface as MOI
 
@@ -16,8 +16,9 @@ const MOF = MOI.FileFormats.MOF
 
 const TEST_MOF_FILE = "test.mof.json"
 
-const SCHEMA =
-    JSONSchema.Schema(JSON.parsefile(MOI.FileFormats.MOF.SCHEMA_PATH))
+const SCHEMA = JSONSchema.Schema(
+    JSON3.read(read(MOI.FileFormats.MOF.SCHEMA_PATH, String), Dict{String,Any}),
+)
 
 function runtests()
     for name in names(@__MODULE__, all = true)
@@ -39,7 +40,7 @@ function _validate(filename::String)
         "r",
         MOI.FileFormats.AutomaticCompression(),
     ) do io
-        object = JSON.parse(io)
+        object = JSON3.read(io, Dict{String,Any})
         ret = JSONSchema.validate(SCHEMA, object)
         if ret !== nothing
             error(
@@ -112,8 +113,10 @@ function test_HS071()
     MOI.set(model, MOI.NLPBlock(), HS071(x))
     MOI.set(model, MOI.ObjectiveSense(), MOI.MIN_SENSE)
     MOI.write_to_file(model, TEST_MOF_FILE)
-    @test replace(read(TEST_MOF_FILE, String), '\r' => "") ==
-          replace(read(joinpath(@__DIR__, "nlp.mof.json"), String), '\r' => "")
+    target = read(joinpath(@__DIR__, "nlp.mof.json"), String)
+    target = replace(target, r"\s" => "")
+    target = replace(target, "MathOptFormatModel" => "MathOptFormat Model")
+    @test read(TEST_MOF_FILE, String) == target
     _validate(TEST_MOF_FILE)
     return
 end