Pythia on MATH-500: score, rank and what it means
Pythia scores 63.6 on MATH-500, placing it #428 of 600 models in the index. The benchmark average is 72.5 and the leader is GPT-5.2 Max at 96.7.
Score distribution
The chart shows the top 10 models on MATH-500, with Pythia highlighted. Longer bars mean higher scores.
Top 10 leaderboard
| # | Model | Provider | Context | Input / 1M | Avg score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GPT-5.2 Max | OpenAI | 1000000 | $21.39 | 89.2 |
| 2 | GPT-5.1 Reasoning | OpenAI | 400000 | $20.27 | 88.3 |
| 3 | GPT-5.1 Pro | OpenAI | 200000 | $19.77 | 87.8 |
| 4 | o4 Reasoning | OpenAI | 1000000 | $19.69 | 87.5 |
| 5 | Grok 4 Max | xAI | 2000000 | $19.70 | 86.6 |
| 6 | Grok 4 Reasoning | xAI | 2000000 | $19.67 | 87.8 |
| 7 | Claude Opus 4.5 Max | Anthropic | 1000000 | $20.90 | 87.8 |
| 8 | Claude Opus 4.5 | Anthropic | 400000 | $19.42 | 87.7 |
| 9 | Gemini 3 Pro Reasoning | Google DeepMind | 200000 | $19.69 | 87.5 |
| 10 | Claude Opus 4.5 Turbo | Anthropic | 2000000 | $19.57 | 85.7 |
What this score means
On MATH-500, Pythia sits at #428 of 600. The leader, GPT-5.2 Max, scores 96.7, so the gap to the top is 33.1 points. The median model in this index scores 76.0, which puts Pythia below the midpoint.
EleutherAI models average 52.0 on this benchmark. Pythia is 11.6 points above that provider line, so it is a stronger result than the average EleutherAI model.
Among open-weight models, the average is 70.8. Pythia is 7.2 points below that group. This is the more useful comparison if you are shortlisting within the same tier rather than across the whole index.
Read a 63.6 as a relative signal, not an absolute guarantee. Benchmark scores depend on prompt format, evaluation harness and contamination controls. Use this page to narrow the shortlist, then test the model on your own data.
Price context
At $1.29 per million input tokens, Pythia is below the median input price of $4.00 across the 600 models scored on MATH-500. The models immediately around it in the ranking are shown below so you can compare score and price together.
| Model | Provider | Context | Input / 1M | Avg score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DeepSeek-R1 7B | DeepSeek | 32768 | $1.79 | 63.0 |
| GPT-NeoX | EleutherAI | 16384 | $1.57 | 61.7 |
| StableLM 2 Base | Stability AI | 8192 | $1.49 | 61.9 |
| Embed 4 Pro | Cohere | 4096 | $5.05 | 63.5 |
| Pythia | EleutherAI | 32768 | $1.29 | 59.8 |
| Pythia Instruct | EleutherAI | 8192 | $1.41 | 60.8 |
| Qwen3-Coder 8B | Alibaba Cloud | 32768 | $1.43 | 61.3 |
Other benchmarks for Pythia
| Benchmark | Score | Rank | Percentile | Relative |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | 63.1 | 487 | 19th | |
| GPQA Diamond | 55.6 | 455 | 24th | |
| SWE-bench Verified | 44.8 | 467 | 22th | |
| HumanEval | 62.8 | 460 | 23th | |
| AIME 2025 | 50.0 | 460 | 23th | |
| LiveCodeBench | 52.2 | 427 | 29th | |
| IFEval | 70.4 | 454 | 24th | |
| TruthfulQA | 67.2 | 426 | 29th | |
| HellaSwag | 72.8 | 485 | 19th | |
| MMMU | 55.0 | 497 | 17th | |
| Arena Elo | 1259.9 | 476 | 21th |
FAQ
What score does Pythia get on MATH-500?
Pythia scores 63.6 on MATH-500 in this index. The benchmark average is 72.5 and the top score is 96.7.
How does Pythia rank on MATH-500?
It ranks #428 of 600 models, in the 29th percentile. The leader is GPT-5.2 Max at 96.7.
Is Pythia good at MATH-500?
It is below the median for this benchmark, so test it carefully before relying on it for this capability. The result should be read alongside its price and context window.
How is the MATH-500 score calculated?
MATH-500 is a mathematics benchmark. Scores in this index are modelled estimates on a 0–100 scale (or Elo for Arena), derived from capability tier and benchmark difficulty. They are not official leaderboard results.
What does Pythia cost?
Pythia costs $1.29 per million input tokens and $5.47 per million output tokens.