Maxima ke mokhoa oa ho qhekella ha mantsoe a tšoantšetso le a lipalo, ho kenyelletsa ho khetholla, ho kopanya, letoto la Taylor, Laplace transforms, li-equations tse tloaelehileng tsa phapang, litsamaiso tsa li-linear equations, polynomials, sets, lists, vectors, matrices le tensor. Maxima o fana ka liphetho tse nepahetseng haholo tsa lipalo ka ho sebelisa likaroloana tse nepahetseng, lipalo-palo tse iqapetsoeng le linomoro tsa lintlha tse phaphametseng tse feto-fetohang. Maxima a ka rera mesebetsi le data ka litekanyo tse peli le tse tharo. Khoutu ea mohloli oa Maxima e ka bokelloa lits'ebetsong tse ngata, ho kenyelletsa Windows, Linux, le MacOS X. Khoutu ea mohloli bakeng sa litsamaiso tsohle le li-binaries tse entsoeng esale pele bakeng sa Windows le Linux li fumaneha ho mookameli oa faele oa SourceForge.