Mathematics-based software & services for education, engineering, and research | Maple
Overview
Maple | Powerful math software that is easy to use
What is Maple?
Maple is math software that combines the world’s most powerful math engine with an interface that makes it extremely easy to analyze, explore, visualize, and solve mathematical problems.
- Solve math problems easily and accurately, without worrying that you’ve lost a minus sign somewhere
- Solve math problems quickly that you could never do by hand (or that you wouldn’t want to do by hand because life is too short!)
- Solve problems from virtually any branch of mathematics or field that relies on mathematics, such as calculus, algebra, differential equations, statistics, control design, linear algebra, physics, optimization, group theory, differential geometry, signal processing, special functions, number theory, financial modeling, etc. etc.
- Gain insight into your problem, solution, data, or concept using a huge variety of customizable 2-D and 3-D plots and animations
- Keep problems, solutions, visualizations, and explanations all together in a single, easy-to-follow document, so you don’t have to waste time reconstructing your thought processes
- Develop complex solutions using a sophisticated programming language designed for mathematics, so your code is shorter, easier to write, easier to debug, and easier to maintain
- Create interactive applications for yourself, your students, or your colleagues, without having to be an expert programmer, and share them over the web
Which version of Maple is for me?
Maple is part of the Maple Math Suite.
Check out the full range of math education products to find the one that suits you best.
Maple: Behind the Scenes
Maple is the result of over 30 years of dedication and effort by many talented people. In this video, you’ll hear from a few of these people, and get a glimpse into the guiding principles that underlie Maple’s development, making it what it is today.
Explore the new features
AI-Powered Assistance
Boost Productivity with the AI Assistant: Your personal AI Assistant will help you do unfamiliar or complex tasks in Maple in a fraction of the time!
Document Import
Bring Your Documents into Maple: Turn your PDFs, printed course notes, hand-written scribbles and other documents into Maple documents where the math is live and ready to be used.
New! Maple Classroom
Technology Preview: Create a class, assign Maple activities, and see in real time how students are working through the math. Get greater visibility into student thinking, not just the final answer.
Advanced Math
More Math, Faster Math: Experience enhanced core functionality, customer requested improvements, and more.
Linear Recurrence Equations
Cutting-edge Solvers for Linear Recurrence Equations: New algorithms solve even more LRE problems, faster, in computer science, pure and applied math, economics, biology, digital signal processing, and many other fields.
Plotting Themes
Plot It Your Way: Give all your graphs a consistent, custom look, easily, with new plotting themes.
Education
Try Another, and Another: Maple’s practice problem generator is better than ever, so students can keep trying similar problems in even more areas of math, until they feel confident. Plus more!
Programming
More Programming Tools: New low-level commands and options simplify code and enable you to provide a smoother experience for the users of your work.
Performance
Faster Operations: Many common operations, including solving polynomial systems and computations involving units, are significantly faster.
Ongoing Math Library Improvements
Continuous Improvements: Get updates the math library throughout the year.
Interface
Smooth Interactions: Several small but important improvements to the interface make working in the Maple environment just that much smoother.
Maple Calculator
Maple Calculator, Included! Get Maple Calculator Premium on your phone. Now included with your EMP membership!
Maple Learn
Maple Learn, Included! Get full access to the online math tool Maple Learn, to use directly or to deploy educational content you create in Maple. Part of your EMP benefits!
Quantum Chemistry Toolbox
Compute and Visualize Molecules: The Maple Quantum Chemistry Toolbox does more than ever!
Elite Maintenance Program Benefits
Many More EMP benefits! Your membership in the Maplesoft Elite Maintenance Program provides more benefits than ever before!
Maple for Academics
Enrich Your Classroom and Accelerate Your Research
With Maple, you aren’t forced to choose between mathematical power and usability, making it the ideal tool for both education and research.
Enrich your classroom & accelerate your research
- Help students learn faster and more deeply by enabling them to focus on new concepts without getting lost in the mechanics of the calculations, providing them with illuminating visualizations that promote understanding, and helping them develop their intuition through interactive explorations that give immediate results.
- Keep students engaged and eager to learn more, with motivating examples and applications that would be too difficult and time-consuming to do by hand, point-and-click problem solving that makes it easy for them to experiment on their own, and interactive learning tools that spark their interest while building their confidence.
- Gain a trusted tool to advance your research with powerful software that can help you understand and solve difficult mathematical problems from virtually any branch of mathematics, easily develop your own algorithms and applications, and solve large-scale problems efficiently.
- Haven’t upgraded to Maple 2026 yet? Take a look at what’s new in Maple 2026. You can also explore an overview of Maple’s many features.
Maple for Industry and Government
The World’s Most Powerful Engine for Technical Computing
Solve, analyze, and deploy mathematically rigorous models using symbolic computation, numeric solvers, AI-assisted workflows, and direct code generation — all in a single environment.
For over 40 years, Maple has been the math engine engineers reach for when the problem is too complex, too critical, or too important to get wrong.
Maple is a technical computing environment for engineers and researchers who need exact mathematics, reproducible analysis, and a direct path from derivation to implementation. It combines symbolic computation, numeric solvers, a math-native programming language, and code generation in a single system – so you derive analytically, validate numerically, and deploy without reimplementation.
When the problem is genuinely hard, dimensionally complex, analytically demanding, or too sensitive for approximation — Maple is the tool that handles it. Not because it approximates well, but because it computes exactly.
Maple sits at the heart of Calculation Lifecycle Management (CLM) — the framework that moves engineering organisations from calculation storage to calculation intelligence.
Maple + Ai
AI is transforming how engineers work but it has a fundamental weakness. LLMs cannot be trusted with calculations. They approximate, they hallucinate, and they burn through compute tokens doing it. The solution isn’t to avoid AI. It’s to give your AI a math engine it can actually rely on – one built on 40 years of algorithm research and 9,000+ mathematical functions.
Maple AI Assistant
Your Technical Assistant Inside Maple
The Maple AI Assistant lives directly inside your Maple environment and understands it completely. Ask it in plain language to write code, build documents, explain results, or suggest next steps and get answers you can trust. Your active document is automatically used as context, responses include executable Maple code insertable at a single click, and every calculation is computed by Maple’s verified engine, not the LLM.
Maple MCP – Math for LLMs
Give any AI a Trusted Math Engine
Maple MCP connects your preferred LLM — ChatGPT, Copilot, Claude, or any other — directly to Maple’s math engine. Every calculation gets delegated to Maple: exact results, fewer tokens consumed, and no more mathematical hallucinations. Whether you’re an existing Maple user or simply want your AI to stop getting the math wrong, Maple MCP works for you.
Maple MCP: When AI Needs to Know, Not Guess
Connect the world’s most trusted math engine to your LLM and get answers you can actually rely on, using far fewer tokens.
– FAQs –
What engineers ask about Maple
Can Maple solve differential equations symbolically?
Yes. Maple is the world leader in symbolic ODE and PDE solving. It finds exact solutions to ordinary and partial differential equations, differential-algebraic equations (DAEs), and delay differential equations (DDEs) — including problems other systems cannot handle. Recent releases solve over 94% of linear recurrence sequences in the OEIS.
Can I connect Maple to ChatGPT or other LLMs?
Yes. Maple allows you to plug Maple directly into your preferred LLM as a math computation layer. This means your AI assistant can delegate all calculations to Maple’s verified engine — eliminating numerical errors from AI-generated math.
Can Maple generate production code?
Yes. Maple’s CodeGeneration package exports to C, C++, Python, Java, MATLAB, Fortran, and VBScript. Code is derived directly from verified symbolic expressions — including code embedded in worksheets and application components. There is no manual re-entry step.
How does Maple handle units?
Maple has a fully integrated units’ system. Dimensions are tracked throughout symbolic and numerical computation — including numerical differentiation. Unit errors are caught automatically. Recent performance improvements mean unit-bearing computations run up to 90x faster than in prior releases.
Can Maple connect to Python, MATLAB, or external AI tools?
Yes. Maple has native interfaces to MATLAB, Python, Excel, and Jupyter. It also supports Maple MCP, which connects external AI tools directly to Maple’s math engine — so AI-generated mathematical results are computed by Maple rather than approximated by a language model.
What industries use Maple?
Maple is used across aerospace and defense, automotive, electrical and mechanical engineering, civil and structural engineering, energy, finance, and academic research and education. Its combination of symbolic power and documentation capability makes it applicable wherever rigorous mathematics is required.