MATH-500
Models solve 500 competition math problems drawn from the MATH test set. Final answers are checked against the reference answers.
Near saturation, since DeepSeek-R1 already scored 97.3 percent in January 2025.
- Level
- Competition The strongest students, in olympiad-style contests
- Scored
- Checked automatically A program checks the result against an answer key, unit tests or the expected final state.
- Answers
- Short answer A number, word or short string matched to a key.
LongCat-Flash-Thinking leads with 99.2%
Best score per model as labs report them in their own cards. Labs pick their own settings, so these compare less cleanly than independent runs.
- 99.2
LongCat-Flash-Thinking
- 98.6 Sarvam 105B
- 98.6
Cogito v2.1
- 98.2 GLM-4.5
- 98.1 GLM-4.5-Air
- 98.1 INTELLECT-3
- 98.0
Qwen3-235B-A22B
- 98.0
Qwen3-30B-A3B
- 98.0
InternVL3.5-241B-A28B
- 97.9 o3-mini
- 97.8 nvidia-nemotron-nano-9b-v2
- 97.6
LongCat-Flash-Omni
- 97.4
Qwen3-8B
- 97.4 Kimi K2
- 97.4
Llama-3.3-Nemotron-Super-49B-v1.5
- 97.4
Falcon H1R 7B
- 97.3
DeepSeek-R1
- 97.2
Qwen3-32B
- 97.0
Llama-3.1-Nemotron-Ultra-253B-v1
- 97.0
Qwen3-4B
- 97.0 Sarvam 30B
- 96.9
Nemotron Nano 12B v2 VL
- 96.8
Qwen3-14B
- 96.8
MiniMax-M1-80k
- 96.6
Llama-3.3-Nemotron-Super-49B-v1
- 96.6
Code World Model (CWM)
- 96.4 o1
- 96.4
ERNIE-4.5-300B-A47B
- 96.4
LongCat-Flash-Chat
- 96.3 Hermes 4 405B
- 96.2 Kimi k1.5
- 96.2 Claude 3.7 Sonnet
- 96.2
Hunyuan-T1
- 96.0 LFM2.5-24B-A2B
- 95.9
Magistral Small 1.0
- 95.8 MiMo-7B-RL
- 95.7
EXAONE Deep 32B
- 95.4
Solar Pro 2
- 95.4
Nemotron 3 Nano 4B
- 95.0
Llama 4 Behemoth
- 94.6
Phi-4-mini-reasoning
- 94.5
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B
- 94.3
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B
- 94.3
Magistral Medium 1.0
- 93.9
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B
- 93.8 Hermes 4.3 36B
- 93.4
Qwen3-1.7B
- 92.5
Phi-4-mini-flash-reasoning
- 92.1
Trinity Mini
- 91.0
Mistral Medium 3
- 90.6 Reka Flash 3
- 90.2
DeepSeek-V3
- 88.8 LFM2.5-8B-A1B
- 88.0 LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking
- 85.5 o1-preview
- 83.9
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B
- 83.8
Falcon-H1-34B
- 83.0
InternLM3-8B-Instruct
- 83.0 Mercury
- 82.0
Amazon Nova Premier
- 74.2 LFM2-8B-A1B
- 71.8
Phi-4 Mini
- 69.0 Granite 3.3 8B Instruct
- 43.4
BitNet b1.58 2B4T
- 42.4 LFM2-1.2B
- 18.4
Qwen-14B
- 6.80
Qwen-7B
- 1
LongCat-Flash-Thinking 99.2%
- 2 Sarvam 105B 98.6%
- 3
Cogito v2.1 98.6%
- 4 GLM-4.5 98.2%
- 5 GLM-4.5-Air 98.1%
- 6 INTELLECT-3 98.1%
- 7
Qwen3-235B-A22B 98%
- 8
Qwen3-30B-A3B 98%
- 9
InternVL3.5-241B-A28B 98%
- 10 o3-mini 97.9%
- 11 nvidia-nemotron-nano-9b-v2 97.8%
- 12
LongCat-Flash-Omni 97.6%
- 13
Qwen3-8B 97.4%
- 14 Kimi K2 Jul 2025 97.4%
- 15
Llama-3.3-Nemotron-Super-49B-v1.5 97.4%
- 16
Falcon H1R 7B 97.4%
- 17
DeepSeek-R1 97.3%
- 18
Qwen3-32B 97.2%
- 19
Llama-3.1-Nemotron-Ultra-253B-v1 97%
- 20
Qwen3-4B 97%
- 21 Sarvam 30B 97%
- 22
Nemotron Nano 12B v2 VL 96.9%
- 23
Qwen3-14B 96.8%
- 24
MiniMax-M1-80k 96.8%
- 25
Llama-3.3-Nemotron-Super-49B-v1 96.6%
- 26
Code World Model (CWM) 96.6%
- 27 o1 96.4%
- 28
ERNIE-4.5-300B-A47B 96.4%
- 29
LongCat-Flash-Chat 96.4%
- 30 Hermes 4 405B 96.3%
- 31 Kimi k1.5 96.2%
- 32 Claude 3.7 Sonnet 96.2%
- 33
Hunyuan-T1 96.2%
- 34 LFM2.5-24B-A2B 96%
- 35
Magistral Small 1.0 95.9%
- 36 MiMo-7B-RL 95.8%
- 37
EXAONE Deep 32B 95.7%
- 38
Solar Pro 2 95.4%
- 39
Nemotron 3 Nano 4B 95.4%
- 40
Llama 4 Behemoth 95%
- 41
Phi-4-mini-reasoning 94.6%
- 42
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B 94.5%
- 43
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B 94.3%
- 44
Magistral Medium 1.0 94.3%
- 45
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B 93.9%
- 46 Hermes 4.3 36B 93.8%
- 47
Qwen3-1.7B 93.4%
- 48
Phi-4-mini-flash-reasoning 92.5%
- 49
Trinity Mini 92.1%
- 50
Mistral Medium 3 91%
- 51 Reka Flash 3 90.6%
- 52
DeepSeek-V3 90.2%
- 53 LFM2.5-8B-A1B 88.8%
- 54 LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking 88%
- 55 o1-preview 85.5%
- 56
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B 83.9%
- 57
Falcon-H1-34B 83.8%
- 58
InternLM3-8B-Instruct 83%
- 59 Mercury 83%
- 60
Amazon Nova Premier 82%
- 61 LFM2-8B-A1B 74.2%
- 62
Phi-4 Mini 71.8%
- 63 Granite 3.3 8B Instruct 69%
- 64
BitNet b1.58 2B4T 43.4%
- 65 LFM2-1.2B 42.4%
- 66
Qwen-14B 18.4%
- 67
Qwen-7B 6.80%
| # | Model | Score | Setting | Date | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | | 99.2% | Sep 2025 | Model card | |
| 2 | Sarvam 105B | 98.6% | Mar 2026 | Model card | |
| 3 | | 98.6% | Nov 2025 | Model card | |
| 4 | GLM-4.5 | 98.2% | Jul 2025 | Model card | |
| 5 | GLM-4.5-Air | 98.1% | Aug 2025 | Model card | |
| 6 | INTELLECT-3 | 98.1% | Nov 2025 | Model card | |
| 7 | | 98% | Apr 2025 | Model card | |
| 8 | | 98% | May 2025 | Model card | |
| 9 | | 98% | Aug 2025 | Model card | |
| 10 | o3-mini | 97.9% | Jan 2025 | Model card | |
| 11 | nvidia-nemotron-nano-9b-v2 | 97.8% | Aug 2025 | Model card | |
| 12 | | 97.6% | Oct 2025 | Model card | |
| 13 | | 97.4% | May 2025 | Model card | |
| 14 | Kimi K2 Jul 2025 | 97.4% | Jul 2025 | Model card | |
| 15 | | 97.4% | Jul 2025 | Model card | |
| 16 | | 97.4% | Jan 2026 | Model card | |
| 17 | | 97.3% | Jan 2025 | Model card | |
| 18 | | 97.2% | May 2025 | Model card | |
| 19 | | 97% | Apr 2025 | Model card | |
| 20 | | 97% | May 2025 | Model card | |
| 21 | Sarvam 30B | 97% | Mar 2026 | Model card | |
| 22 | | 96.9% | Nov 2025 | Model card | |
| 23 | | 96.8% | May 2025 | Model card | |
| 24 | | 96.8% | Jun 2025 | Model card | |
| 25 | | 96.6% | Mar 2025 | Model card | |
| 26 | | 96.6% | Sep 2025 | Model card | |
| 27 | o1 | 96.4% | Dec 2024 | Model card | |
| 28 | | 96.4% | Jun 2025 | Model card | |
| 29 | | 96.4% | Aug 2025 | Model card | |
| 30 | Hermes 4 405B | 96.3% | Aug 2025 | Model card | |
| 31 | Kimi k1.5 | 96.2% | Jan 2025 | Model card | |
| 32 | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | 96.2% | Feb 2025 | Model card | |
| 33 | | 96.2% | Mar 2025 | Model card | |
| 34 | LFM2.5-24B-A2B | 96% | Oct 2026 | Model card | |
| 35 | | 95.9% | Jun 2025 | Model card | |
| 36 | MiMo-7B-RL | 95.8% | Apr 2025 | Model card | |
| 37 | | 95.7% | Mar 2025 | Model card | |
| 38 | | 95.4% | Jul 2025 | Model card | |
| 39 | | 95.4% | Mar 2026 | Model card | |
| 40 | | 95% | Apr 2025 | Model card | |
| 41 | | 94.6% | Apr 2025 | Model card | |
| 42 | | 94.5% | Jan 2025 | Model card | |
| 43 | | 94.3% | Jan 2025 | Model card | |
| 44 | | 94.3% | Jun 2025 | Model card | |
| 45 | | 93.9% | Jan 2025 | Model card | |
| 46 | Hermes 4.3 36B | 93.8% | Dec 2025 | Model card | |
| 47 | | 93.4% | May 2025 | Model card | |
| 48 | | 92.5% | Jul 2025 | Model card | |
| 49 | | 92.1% | Dec 2025 | Model card | |
| 50 | | 91% | May 2025 | Model card | |
| 51 | Reka Flash 3 | 90.6% | Mar 2025 | Model card | |
| 52 | | 90.2% | Dec 2024 | Model card | |
| 53 | LFM2.5-8B-A1B | 88.8% | May 2026 | Model card | |
| 54 | LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking | 88% | Jan 2026 | Model card | |
| 55 | o1-preview | 85.5% | Sep 2024 | Model card | |
| 56 | | 83.9% | Jan 2025 | Model card | |
| 57 | | 83.8% | May 2025 | Model card | |
| 58 | | 83% | Jan 2025 | Model card | |
| 59 | Mercury | 83% | Jun 2025 | Model card | |
| 60 | | 82% | Apr 2025 | Model card | |
| 61 | LFM2-8B-A1B | 74.2% | Oct 2025 | Model card | |
| 62 | | 71.8% | Mar 2025 | Model card | |
| 63 | Granite 3.3 8B Instruct | 69% | Apr 2025 | Model card | |
| 64 | | 43.4% | Apr 2025 | Model card | |
| 65 | LFM2-1.2B | 42.4% | Nov 2025 | Model card | |
| 66 | | 18.4% | Sep 2023 | Model card | |
| 67 | | 6.80% | Sep 2023 | Model card |
8 models have held number one since its release in May 2023
Lab claims count from the day the card came out, independent runs from the model’s release.
The best score passed 85% in Sep 2024
All the scores we have, one dot each, so a model tested at several settings appears more than once.
Labs headline it less often now, last in Oct 2026
Launch posts from every lab that has listed it, one tick per post. Tall colored ticks include it, and short gray ones leave it out.
| Date | Launch post | Score | As the post writes it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 Oct 2026 | LFM2.5-24B-A2B | 96 | MATH-500 |
| 28 May 2026 | LFM2.5-8B-A1B | 88.8 | MATH500 |
| 16 Mar 2026 | 95.4 | MATH500 (reasoning on) | |
| 6 Mar 2026 | Sarvam 30B | 97 | Math500 |
| 6 Mar 2026 | Sarvam 105B | 98.6 | Math500 |
| 20 Jan 2026 | LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking | 88 | MATH-500 (± 0.72) |
| 3 Dec 2025 | Hermes 4.3 36B | 93.8 | MATH-500 |
| 1 Dec 2025 | 92.1 | Math-500 | |
| 26 Nov 2025 | INTELLECT-3 | 98.1 | MATH-500 |
| 19 Nov 2025 | 98.6 | MATH-500 | |
| 31 Oct 2025 | 97.6 | MATH500(acc) | |
| 7 Oct 2025 | LFM2-8B-A1B | 74.2 | MATH 500 |
| 24 Sep 2025 | 96.6 | Math-500 | |
| 21 Sep 2025 | 99.2 | MATH500(Mean@1) | |
| 29 Aug 2025 | 96.4 | MATH500(acc) | |
| 26 Aug 2025 | Hermes 4 405B | 96.3 | MATH-500 (reasoning) |
| 25 Aug 2025 | 98 | MATH500 | |
| 18 Aug 2025 | 97.8 | MATH500 | |
| 28 Jul 2025 | GLM-4.5 | 98.2 | MATH 500 |
| 25 Jul 2025 | 97.4 | MATH500 (pass@1, avg of 4) | |
| 11 Jul 2025 | Kimi K2 | 97.4 | MATH-500, Acc |
| 10 Jul 2025 | 95.4 | Math500 | |
| 9 Jul 2025 | 92.5 | Math500 | |
| 30 Jun 2025 | 96.4 | MATH-500 | |
| 26 Jun 2025 | Mercury | 83 | MATH-500 (% accuracy) |
| 16 Jun 2025 | 96.8 | MATH-500 | |
| 20 May 2025 | 83.8 | MATH-500 | |
| 7 May 2025 | 91 | Math500 Instruct 0-shot | |
| 30 Apr 2025 | 94.6 | MATH-500 | |
| 30 Apr 2025 | 82 | MATH-500 | |
| 29 Apr 2025 | MiMo-7B-RL | 95.8 | MATH-500 (Pass@1) |
| 29 Apr 2025 | 98 | MATH-500 | |
| 16 Apr 2025 | Granite 3.3 8B Instruct | 69 | MATH-500 |
| 15 Apr 2025 | 43.4 | MATH-500 | |
| 7 Apr 2025 | 97 | MATH500 (reasoning on) | |
| 5 Apr 2025 | 95 | MATH-500 | |
| 24 Mar 2025 | MATH-500 (Pass@1) | ||
| 21 Mar 2025 | 96.2 | MATH-500 | |
| 18 Mar 2025 | 95.7 | MATH-500 (pass@1) | |
| 18 Mar 2025 | 96.6 | MATH500 (reasoning on) | |
| 16 Mar 2025 | Math-500 | ||
| 10 Mar 2025 | Reka Flash 3 | 90.6 | MATH-500 |
| 24 Feb 2025 | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | 96.2 | Math problem-solving MATH 500 (64K extended thinking) |
| 31 Jan 2025 | o3-mini | 97.9 | Math (pass@1) |
| 20 Jan 2025 | Kimi k1.5 | 96.2 | MATH-500 (EM), long-CoT |
| 20 Jan 2025 | 97.3 | MATH-500 (Pass@1) | |
| 13 Jan 2025 | 83 | MATH-500(0-shot), Thinking Mode | |
| 26 Dec 2024 | 90.2 | MATH-500 (EM) | |
| 17 Dec 2024 | o1 | 96.4 | MATH (pass @1) |
| 12 Sep 2024 | o1-preview | 85.5 | MATH pass@1 (500-problem split) |
43 system cards report it, from 18 labs
Besides launch posts, we read the system cards, model cards and technical reports labs publish with a release. They report far more, including safety and frontier-risk tests.
| Date | Document | Score | As the document writes it | Section |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 Jan 2026 | | 97.4 | MATH500 pass@1 (Table 4) | Capabilities |
| 28 Nov 2025 | LFM2-8B-A1B technical report | 74.2 | MATH 500, LFM2-8B-A1B (Table 7) | Capabilities |
| 28 Nov 2025 | LFM2-1.2B technical report | 42.4 | MATH 500, LFM2-1.2B (Table 6) | Capabilities |
| 6 Nov 2025 | | 96.9 | MATH-500, reasoning on, SFT stage 4 final model, mean of 4 runs (Table 6) | Capabilities |
| 31 Oct 2025 | | 97.6 | MATH500 (acc) (Table 13) | Capabilities |
| 30 Sep 2025 | | 96.6 | Math-500, pass@1 averaged over 20 samples (Table 12) | Capabilities |
| 23 Sep 2025 | | 99.2 | MATH-500(Mean@1) (Table 2) | Capabilities |
| 1 Sep 2025 | | 96.4 | MATH500 (acc) (Table 3) | Capabilities |
| 25 Aug 2025 | | 98 | MATH500 (Table 2) | Capabilities |
| 25 Aug 2025 | Hermes 4 405B technical report | 96.2 | MATH-500, reasoning mode (Table 3). Non-reasoning 73.8. v1 printed 96.3 | Capabilities |
| 8 Aug 2025 | GLM-4.5 technical report | 98.2 | MATH 500 (Table 4) | Capabilities |
| 8 Aug 2025 | GLM-4.5-Air technical report | 98.1 | MATH 500 (Table 4) | Capabilities |
| 30 Jul 2025 | | 83.8 | MATH-500 (Table 24) | Capabilities |
| 21 Jul 2025 | Kimi K2 technical report | 97.4 | MATH-500 (Acc.) (Table 3) | Capabilities |
| 9 Jul 2025 | | 92.5 | Math500, pass@1 averaged over 8 samples (Table 4) | Capabilities |
| 29 Jun 2025 | | 96.4 | MATH-500 (Table 5) | Capabilities |
| 16 Jun 2025 | | 96.8 | MATH-500 (Table 2) | Capabilities |
| 12 Jun 2025 | | 95.9 | MATH-500, SFT + RL (Magistral Small) column (Table 3) | Capabilities |
| 12 Jun 2025 | | 94.3 | MATH-500 (Table 2) | Capabilities |
| 14 May 2025 | | 97.4 | MATH-500, thinking mode (Table 17). Non-thinking 87.4 (Table 18) | Capabilities |
| 14 May 2025 | | 97 | MATH-500, thinking mode (Table 17). Non-thinking 84.8 (Table 18) | Capabilities |
| 14 May 2025 | | 97.2 | MATH-500, thinking mode (Table 13). Non-thinking 88.6 (Table 14) | Capabilities |
| 14 May 2025 | | 98 | MATH-500, thinking mode (Table 15). Non-thinking 89.8 (Table 16) | Capabilities |
| 14 May 2025 | | 98 | MATH-500, thinking mode (Table 11). Non-thinking 91.2 (Table 12) | Capabilities |
| 14 May 2025 | | 96.8 | MATH-500, thinking mode (Table 15). Non-thinking 90.0 (Table 16) | Capabilities |
| 14 May 2025 | | 93.4 | MATH-500, thinking mode (Table 19). Non-thinking 73.0 (Table 20) | Capabilities |
| 12 May 2025 | MiMo-7B-RL technical report | 95.8 | MATH500 (Pass@1) (Table 4, Table 5, Table 6) | Capabilities |
| 2 May 2025 | | 96.6 | MATH500, reasoning on, reasoning off 74.0 (Table 4) | Capabilities |
| 2 May 2025 | | 97 | MATH500, reasoning on, reasoning off 80.4 (Table 5) | Capabilities |
| 30 Apr 2025 | | 94.6 | MATH-500, pass@1 (Table 3) | Capabilities |
| 30 Apr 2025 | | 82 | MATH-500, 0-shot CoT, +/-3.4 (Table 1) | Capabilities |
| 16 Apr 2025 | | 43.4 | MATH-500 (0-shot; EM) (Table 1) | Capabilities |
| 16 Mar 2025 | | 95.7 | MATH-500, pass@1 with k=8 (Table 2) | Capabilities |
| 3 Mar 2025 | | 71.8 | MATH-500, Phi-4-Mini row of the CoT reasoning comparison (Table 9) | Capabilities |
| 20 Jan 2025 | Kimi k1.5 technical report | 96.2 | MATH-500 (EM), long-CoT (Table 2). Short-CoT 94.6 (Table 3) | Capabilities |
| 20 Jan 2025 | | 97.3 | MATH-500 (Pass@1), DeepSeek-R1 (Table 8, same as final column of Table 3) | Capabilities |
| 20 Jan 2025 | | 94.3 | MATH-500 pass@1, DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B (Table 15) | Capabilities |
| 20 Jan 2025 | | 93.9 | MATH-500 pass@1, DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B (Table 15) | Capabilities |
| 20 Jan 2025 | | 83.9 | MATH-500 pass@1, DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B (Table 15) | Capabilities |
| 20 Jan 2025 | | 94.5 | MATH-500 pass@1, DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B (Table 15) | Capabilities |
| 26 Dec 2024 | | 90.2 | MATH-500 (EM), DeepSeek-V3 (Table 6) | Capabilities |
| 28 Sep 2023 | | 6.8 | MATH on the Lightman et al. (2023) test set, greedy decoding (Table 12) | Capabilities |
| 28 Sep 2023 | | 18.4 | MATH on the Lightman et al. (2023) test set, greedy decoding (Table 12) | Capabilities |
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