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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Alibaba Cloud	glm-5.2	$1.40	$4.40	$0.28
Alibaba Cloud(cn-beijing)	glm-5.2	$1.40	$4.40	$0.28
Alibaba Cloud(singapore)	glm-5.2	$1.40	$4.40	$0.28
ByteDance	glm-5.2	$1.40	$4.40	$0.26
EmberCloud	glm-5.2	$1.26	$3.96	$0.23
Alibaba Cloud(us-virginia)	glm-5.2	$1.40	$4.40	$0.28
Alibaba Cloud(eu-frankfurt)	glm-5.2	$1.40	$4.40	$0.28
Alibaba Cloud	glm-5.2	$1.40	$4.40	$0.28
Z AI	glm-5.2	$1.40	$4.40	$0.26
NovitaAI	glm-5.2	$1.40	$4.40	$0.26
Z AI	glm-5.2	$1.40	$4.40	$0.26
CanopyWave	glm-5.2	$1.40	$4.40	$0.26
Granite	glm-5.2	$1.40	$4.40	$0.26
NovitaAI	glm-5.2	$1.40	$4.40	$0.26
Runware	glm-5.2	$0.80	$2.55	$0.16
SCX.ai	glm-5.2	$0.55	$1.78	$0.11
EmberCloud	glm-5.2	$1.26	$3.96	$0.23
Nebius AI	glm-5.2	$1.40	$4.40	—
SCX.ai	glm-5.2	$0.55	$1.78	$0.11
Baidu	glm-5.2	$1.40	$4.40	$0.26
Baidu	glm-5.2	$1.40	$4.40	$0.26
Nebius AI	glm-5.2	$1.40	$4.40	—
ByteDance	glm-5.2	$1.40	$4.40	$0.26
Runware	glm-5.2	$0.80	$2.55	$0.16
CanopyWave	glm-5.2	$1.40	$4.40	$0.26
SCX.ai(au)	glm-5.2	$0.55	$1.78	$0.11
Alibaba Cloud	qwen3.6-max-preview	$1.30	$7.80	$0.13
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
Nebius AI	qwen3-235b-a22b-thinking-2507	$0.20	$0.60	—
NovitaAI	qwen3-235b-a22b-thinking-2507	$0.30	$3.00	—
NovitaAI	qwen3-235b-a22b-thinking-2507	$0.30	$3.00	—
Vertex AI (OpenAI-compatible)	kimi-k2-thinking	$0.60	$2.50	$0.06
Alibaba Cloud	kimi-k2-thinking	$0.57	$2.29	—
Moonshot AI	kimi-k2-thinking	$0.60	$2.50	$0.15
ByteDance	kimi-k2-thinking	$0.60	$2.50	$0.12
Vertex AI (OpenAI-compatible)	kimi-k2-thinking	$0.60	$2.50	$0.06
MiniMax	minimax-m3	$0.60	$2.40	$0.12
Together AI	minimax-m3	$0.30	$1.20	$0.06
Nebius AI	minimax-m3	$0.30	$1.20	—
Together AI	minimax-m3	$0.30	$1.20	$0.06
Nebius AI	minimax-m3	$0.30	$1.20	—
MiniMax	minimax-m3	$0.60	$2.40	$0.12
Alibaba Cloud(eu-frankfurt)	deepseek-v4-pro	$2.40	$4.80	$0.20
CanopyWave	deepseek-v4-pro	$1.74	$3.48	$0.01
Fireworks AI	deepseek-v4-pro	$1.32	$3.96	$0.04
DeepInfra	deepseek-v4-pro	$1.30	$2.60	$0.10
Runware	deepseek-v4-pro	$0.96	$1.92	$0.08
Together AI	deepseek-v4-pro	$1.32	$3.96	$0.13
CanopyWave	deepseek-v4-pro	$1.74	$3.48	$0.01

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