What is the best LLM for math?

GPT-5.5 Pro and GPT-5.4 Pro top most math evaluations, with Claude Opus 4.8 and Gemini 3.1 Pro close behind. DeepSeek V4 Pro and Qwen's 235B thinking model get remarkably close at a fraction of the cost, which makes them the default choice for high-volume math workloads.

Do I need a reasoning model for math?

For anything beyond arithmetic and simple algebra, yes. Reasoning models work through problems step by step before answering and are far more reliable on competition-style and multi-step problems. Most models here let you cap the thinking budget so you control cost per problem.

Can LLMs be trusted for calculations?

Not blindly. Models still make arithmetic slips inside otherwise-correct reasoning, so for production use pair the model with tool calling — let it call a calculator or run code — and use the LLM for setting up and interpreting the math rather than raw number crunching.

How much do reasoning tokens cost?

Reasoning tokens bill as output tokens, and hard problems can burn thousands of them. That's why per-token price matters double for math: DeepSeek V4 Pro at $0.87 per million output tokens can be orders of magnitude cheaper per problem than a Pro-tier frontier model — compare output prices in the list above.

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AWS Mantle(us-east-1)	gpt-5.6-sol	$5.50	$33.00	$0.55
AWS Mantle	gpt-5.6-sol	$5.50	$33.00	$0.55
Azure	gpt-5.6-sol	$5.00	$30.00	$0.50
AWS Mantle(us-east-2)	gpt-5.6-sol	$5.50	$33.00	$0.55
OpenAI	gpt-5.6-sol	$5.00	$30.00	$0.50
Alibaba Cloud(singapore)	glm-5.2	$1.40	$4.40	$0.28
CanopyWave	glm-5.2	$1.40	$4.40	$0.26
NovitaAI	glm-5.2	$1.40	$4.40	$0.26
Alibaba Cloud(us-virginia)	glm-5.2	$1.40	$4.40	$0.28
EmberCloud	glm-5.2	$1.26	$3.96	$0.23
Z AI	glm-5.2	$1.40	$4.40	$0.26
Alibaba Cloud	glm-5.2	$1.40	$4.40	$0.28
Baidu	glm-5.2	$1.40	$4.40	$0.26
Alibaba Cloud(cn-beijing)	glm-5.2	$1.40	$4.40	$0.28
Runware	glm-5.2	$0.80$0.56 -30% off	$2.55$1.79 -30% off	$0.16$0.11 -30% off
Alibaba Cloud(eu-frankfurt)	glm-5.2	$1.40	$4.40	$0.28
ByteDance	glm-5.2	$1.40	$4.40	$0.26
SCX.ai	glm-5.2	$0.55	$1.78	$0.11
Nebius AI	glm-5.2	$1.40	$4.40	—
Anthropic	claude-fable-5	$10.00	$50.00	$1.00
AWS Bedrock(us)	claude-fable-5	$11.00	$55.00	$1.10
AWS Bedrock(global)	claude-fable-5	$10.00	$50.00	$1.00
AWS Bedrock	claude-fable-5	$10.00	$50.00	$1.00
Nebius AI	minimax-m3	$0.30	$1.20	—
Together AI	minimax-m3	$0.30	$1.20	$0.06
MiniMax	minimax-m3	$0.60	$2.40	$0.12
AWS Bedrock(au)	claude-opus-4-8	$5.50	$27.50	$0.55
Anthropic	claude-opus-4-8	$5.00	$25.00	$0.50
AWS Bedrock	claude-opus-4-8	$5.00	$25.00	$0.50
AWS Bedrock(global)	claude-opus-4-8	$5.00	$25.00	$0.50
AWS Bedrock(jp)	claude-opus-4-8	$5.50	$27.50	$0.55
AWS Bedrock(eu)	claude-opus-4-8	$5.50	$27.50	$0.55
AWS Bedrock(us)	claude-opus-4-8	$5.50	$27.50	$0.55
Vertex AI (OpenAI-compatible)	grok-4-20-reasoning	$1.25	$2.50	$0.20
Xiaomi	mimo-v2.5-pro	$0.43	$0.87	$0.00
AWS Bedrock(global)	grok-4-3	$1.25	$2.50	$0.20
AWS Bedrock(us)	grok-4-3	$1.38	$2.75	$0.22
AWS Bedrock(us-west-2)	grok-4-3	$1.38	$2.75	$0.22
AWS Bedrock	grok-4-3	$1.25	$2.50	$0.20
xAI	grok-4-3	$1.25	$2.50	$0.20
Azure AI Foundry	grok-4-3	$1.25	$2.50	$0.20
Alibaba Cloud(singapore)	qwen3.6-max-preview	$1.30	$7.80	$0.13
Alibaba Cloud	qwen3.6-max-preview	$1.30	$7.80	$0.13
OpenAI	gpt-5.5-pro	$30.00	$180.00	—
OpenAI	gpt-5.5	$5.00	$30.00	$0.50
Azure	gpt-5.5	$5.00	$30.00	$0.50
Alibaba Cloud(singapore)	deepseek-v4-pro	$2.40	$4.80	$0.20
DeepInfra	deepseek-v4-pro	$1.30	$2.60	$0.10
Fireworks AI	deepseek-v4-pro	$1.32	$3.96	$0.04
Nebius AI	deepseek-v4-pro	$1.75	$3.50	—

Best Models for Math

Reasoning models for competition math, quantitative analysis, and step-by-step problem solving

Compare

19/258

Models

28/55

Providers

Vision Models (filtered)

Tool-enabled (filtered)

Free Models (filtered)


AWS Mantle(us-east-1)	gpt-5.6-sol	$5.50	$33.00	$0.55
AWS Mantle	gpt-5.6-sol	$5.50	$33.00	$0.55
Azure	gpt-5.6-sol	$5.00	$30.00	$0.50
AWS Mantle(us-east-2)	gpt-5.6-sol	$5.50	$33.00	$0.55
OpenAI	gpt-5.6-sol	$5.00	$30.00	$0.50
Alibaba Cloud(singapore)	glm-5.2	$1.40	$4.40	$0.28
CanopyWave	glm-5.2	$1.40	$4.40	$0.26
NovitaAI	glm-5.2	$1.40	$4.40	$0.26
Alibaba Cloud(us-virginia)	glm-5.2	$1.40	$4.40	$0.28
EmberCloud	glm-5.2	$1.26	$3.96	$0.23
Z AI	glm-5.2	$1.40	$4.40	$0.26
Alibaba Cloud	glm-5.2	$1.40	$4.40	$0.28
Baidu	glm-5.2	$1.40	$4.40	$0.26
Alibaba Cloud(cn-beijing)	glm-5.2	$1.40	$4.40	$0.28
Runware	glm-5.2	$0.80$0.56 -30% off	$2.55$1.79 -30% off	$0.16$0.11 -30% off
Alibaba Cloud(eu-frankfurt)	glm-5.2	$1.40	$4.40	$0.28
ByteDance	glm-5.2	$1.40	$4.40	$0.26
SCX.ai	glm-5.2	$0.55	$1.78	$0.11
Nebius AI	glm-5.2	$1.40	$4.40	—
Anthropic	claude-fable-5	$10.00	$50.00	$1.00
AWS Bedrock(us)	claude-fable-5	$11.00	$55.00	$1.10
AWS Bedrock(global)	claude-fable-5	$10.00	$50.00	$1.00
AWS Bedrock	claude-fable-5	$10.00	$50.00	$1.00
Nebius AI	minimax-m3	$0.30	$1.20	—
Together AI	minimax-m3	$0.30	$1.20	$0.06
MiniMax	minimax-m3	$0.60	$2.40	$0.12
AWS Bedrock(au)	claude-opus-4-8	$5.50	$27.50	$0.55
Anthropic	claude-opus-4-8	$5.00	$25.00	$0.50
AWS Bedrock	claude-opus-4-8	$5.00	$25.00	$0.50
AWS Bedrock(global)	claude-opus-4-8	$5.00	$25.00	$0.50
AWS Bedrock(jp)	claude-opus-4-8	$5.50	$27.50	$0.55
AWS Bedrock(eu)	claude-opus-4-8	$5.50	$27.50	$0.55
AWS Bedrock(us)	claude-opus-4-8	$5.50	$27.50	$0.55
Vertex AI (OpenAI-compatible)	grok-4-20-reasoning	$1.25	$2.50	$0.20
Xiaomi	mimo-v2.5-pro	$0.43	$0.87	$0.00
AWS Bedrock(global)	grok-4-3	$1.25	$2.50	$0.20
AWS Bedrock(us)	grok-4-3	$1.38	$2.75	$0.22
AWS Bedrock(us-west-2)	grok-4-3	$1.38	$2.75	$0.22
AWS Bedrock	grok-4-3	$1.25	$2.50	$0.20
xAI	grok-4-3	$1.25	$2.50	$0.20
Azure AI Foundry	grok-4-3	$1.25	$2.50	$0.20
Alibaba Cloud(singapore)	qwen3.6-max-preview	$1.30	$7.80	$0.13
Alibaba Cloud	qwen3.6-max-preview	$1.30	$7.80	$0.13
OpenAI	gpt-5.5-pro	$30.00	$180.00	—
OpenAI	gpt-5.5	$5.00	$30.00	$0.50
Azure	gpt-5.5	$5.00	$30.00	$0.50
Alibaba Cloud(singapore)	deepseek-v4-pro	$2.40	$4.80	$0.20
DeepInfra	deepseek-v4-pro	$1.30	$2.60	$0.10
Fireworks AI	deepseek-v4-pro	$1.32	$3.96	$0.04
Nebius AI	deepseek-v4-pro	$1.75	$3.50	—

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