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Best AI model for Math Tutoring (2026)
Step-by-step math help that doesn't make things up. Ranked from 346 live models on the OpenRouter catalog, weighted for reasoning quality, structured output.
| # | Model | Score | In / 1M | Out / 1M | Context | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6moonshotai/kimi-k2.6 | 116 | $0.80 | $3.50 | 262,144 | Try → |
| 2 | Google: Gemma 4 26B A4B (free)google/gemma-4-26b-a4b-it:free | 116 | Free | Free | 262,144 | Try → |
| 3 | Google: Gemma 4 26B A4B google/gemma-4-26b-a4b-it | 116 | $0.07 | $0.35 | 262,144 | Try → |
| 4 | Google: Gemma 4 31B (free)google/gemma-4-31b-it:free | 116 | Free | Free | 262,144 | Try → |
| 5 | Google: Gemma 4 31Bgoogle/gemma-4-31b-it | 116 | $0.13 | $0.38 | 262,144 | Try → |
| 6 | Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plusqwen/qwen3.6-plus | 116 | $0.33 | $1.95 | 1,000,000 | Try → |
| 7 | Z.ai: GLM 5V Turboz-ai/glm-5v-turbo | 116 | $1.20 | $4.00 | 202,752 | Try → |
| 8 | xAI: Grok 4.20x-ai/grok-4.20 | 116 | $2.00 | $6.00 | 2,000,000 | Try → |
| 9 | Xiaomi: MiMo-V2-Omnixiaomi/mimo-v2-omni | 116 | $0.40 | $2.00 | 262,144 | Try → |
| 10 | OpenAI: GPT-5.4 Nanoopenai/gpt-5.4-nano | 116 | $0.20 | $1.25 | 400,000 | Try → |
| 11 | OpenAI: GPT-5.4 Miniopenai/gpt-5.4-mini | 116 | $0.75 | $4.50 | 400,000 | Try → |
| 12 | Mistral: Mistral Small 4mistralai/mistral-small-2603 | 116 | $0.15 | $0.60 | 262,144 | Try → |
| 13 | ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Litebytedance-seed/seed-2.0-lite | 116 | $0.25 | $2.00 | 262,144 | Try → |
| 14 | Qwen: Qwen3.5-9Bqwen/qwen3.5-9b | 116 | $0.10 | $0.15 | 262,144 | Try → |
| 15 | OpenAI: GPT-5.4openai/gpt-5.4 | 116 | $2.50 | $15.00 | 1,050,000 | Try → |
How we ranked these
For Math Tutoring, we weight models on reasoning quality, structured output. Higher means better. Scores combine OpenRouter's model metadata (context length, modality support, tool calling, structured output, reasoning capability) with public pricing. See full methodology →
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