Best Simulation Software

Compare the Top Simulation Software as of July 2025

What is Simulation Software?

Simulation software is a type of software that utilizes mathematical algorithms to replicate real-life scenarios. This allows for the testing and analysis of various systems, processes, and strategies. Many industries, such as aviation and engineering, use simulation software to predict performance outcomes and identify potential issues before implementing them in the real world. These programs are designed to accurately mimic the behavior of complex systems and provide visual representations of data for easier interpretation. They can be used for educational purposes or as tools for decision-making in business settings. Compare and read user reviews of the best Simulation software currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    MATLAB

    MATLAB

    The MathWorks

    MATLAB® combines a desktop environment tuned for iterative analysis and design processes with a programming language that expresses matrix and array mathematics directly. It includes the Live Editor for creating scripts that combine code, output, and formatted text in an executable notebook. MATLAB toolboxes are professionally developed, rigorously tested, and fully documented. MATLAB apps let you see how different algorithms work with your data. Iterate until you’ve got the results you want, then automatically generate a MATLAB program to reproduce or automate your work. Scale your analyses to run on clusters, GPUs, and clouds with only minor code changes. There’s no need to rewrite your code or learn big data programming and out-of-memory techniques. Automatically convert MATLAB algorithms to C/C++, HDL, and CUDA code to run on your embedded processor or FPGA/ASIC. MATLAB works with Simulink to support Model-Based Design.
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    iGrafx Process360 Live
    iGrafx enables true business transformation by helping organizations continuously improve their processes. An integrated intelligence platform is critical for achieving continuous process improvement. Today’s complex processes involve multiple departments, systems, and stakeholders, making it hard to understand the entire process ecosystem. Without a holistic view, it can be difficult to assess what’s actually going wrong and which potential solutions are most effective. Unlock the power of process intelligence with the Process360 Live platform, bringing together process mining, design and simulation. Streamline processes, identify bottlenecks, and optimize workflows to get more done and create higher quality products with the same amount of resources. Keep volume, pace and quality stable while decreasing financial investment through process optimization and improved resource allocation.
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    Simul8

    Simul8

    Simul8 Corporation

    Decision making happens every day, at every level, in every business. Make your best decisions, every time - and deliver serious impact fast - with Simul8. Simulation software so intuitive, fast and effective youll use it every day. Base decisions on truth, not hunches. Understand and maximize flow. Reveal and inspire new ways to operate. Forecast and plan with confidence. Challenge the status quo. It's all possible with Simul8. Whatever your priorities and ambitions, Simul8 is designed to rapidly unlock significant value and drive a serious, positive impact across your organization from day one. From decisions that save millions, to saving lives, organizations in every industry are driving transformative changes with Simul8. We’re proud to support and celebrate world-changers — people and organizations who are using simulation to make a real impact on social, health and environmental issues.
    Starting Price: $250 per user per month
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    DC-E DigitalClone for Engineering

    DC-E DigitalClone for Engineering

    Sentient Science Corporation

    DigitalClone® for Engineering is the world's only gearbox reliability prediction solution integrating multiple scales of analysis in a single software package. In addition to modeling and analysis capabilities at the gearbox and gear/bearing levels, DC-E is the only solution available that models fatigue life based on detailed, physics-based models of the material microstructure (US Patent 10474772B2). DC-E enables construction of a gearbox digital twin with high value across all stages of the lifecycle of the physical asset - from design and manufacturing optimization to component supplier selection to failure root cause analysis to condition-based maintenance and to prognostics. This computational environment drives down the time and cost to bring new designs to the market and to sustain them over time.
    Starting Price: Upon request
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    FlexSim

    FlexSim

    FlexSim Software Products, Inc.

    FlexSim is a problem solving tool that allows you to accurately answer any question about your business. It's powerful simulation software, built from the ground up to make simulation as easy as possible, without sacrificing an ounce of function or visual appeal. You can create beautiful, detailed models that deliver results yet make an impact in the way spreadsheets or charts never could, and you can do it all in just minutes with drag-and-drop controls and easy-to-use features.
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    Analytic Solver

    Analytic Solver

    Frontline Systems

    Analytic Solver Optimization - 100% upward compatible from the Excel Solver - handles every type and size of the conventional optimization problem (without uncertainty). Unlike other optimization software, it algebraically analyzes your model structure and maximally exploits multiple cores in your PC. You can solve nonlinear models 10 times larger, and linear models 40 times larger than the Excel Solver, get solutions much faster – and plug-in Solver Engines to handle up to millions of variables! Analytic Solver Simulation gives you easy-to-use, powerful Monte Carlo simulation and risk analysis, decision trees, and simulation optimization using Frontline’s advanced Evolutionary Solver. With 60 probability distributions plus compound distributions, automatic distribution fitting, rank-order and copula-based correlation, 80 statistics, risk measures and Six Sigma functions, multiple parameterized simulations and more.
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    ProModel Optimization Suite
    ProModel is a discrete-event simulation technology that is used to plan, design and improve new or existing manufacturing, logistics and other operational systems. It empowers you to accurately represent real-world processes, including their inherent variability and interdependencies, in order to conduct predictive analysis on potential changes. Optimize your system around your key performance indicators. Create a dynamic, animated computer model of your business environment from CAD files, process or value stream maps, or Process Simulator models. Clearly see and understand current processes and policies in action. Brainstorm using the model to identify potential changes and develop scenarios to test improvements which will achieve business objectives. Run scenarios independently of each other and compare their results in the Output Viewer developed through the latest Microsoft® WPF technology.
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    Ansys Twin Builder
    An analytics-driven, simulation-based digital twin is a connected, virtual replica of an in-service physical asset — in the form of an integrated multidomain system simulation —that mirrors the life and experience of the asset. Hybrid digital twins enable system design and optimization and predictive maintenance, and they optimize industrial asset management. By implementing Ansys Twin Builder, you can improve top-line revenue, manage bottom-line costs and both gain and retain a competitive advantage. Ansys Twin Builder enables you to quickly create a digital twin–a connected replica of an in-service asset. This allows for enhanced lifecycle management and true predictive maintenance, saving costs to help maintain a competitive advantage.
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    Planisware

    Planisware

    Planisware

    Planisware Enterprise captures your strategy and aligns your portfolios, projects, and teams to make an impact on the bottom line. Planisware Orchestra enables project decision-making across the entire portfolio and helps you reach the next maturity level. Planisware Enterprise is an integrated solution that brings together budgets, forecasts, schedules, resources, and actuals. Global organizations like Ford, Philips, Pfizer, and Société Générale, and dynamic mid-sized innovators such as Zebra, Beam Suntory, and MSA Safety alike trust Planisware to manage their project pipeline. Shape your strategy and assess results through roadmaps, budgets, and investment buckets. Define, prioritize, and manage your portfolio of projects through investment scenarios, and simulations. Gain visibility and manage your resources through capacity planning, resource scheduling, and time tracking. Control your projects through scheduling, costs, and deliverable management.
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    ETAP Software
    ETAP® is a full spectrum analytical engineering software company specializing in the analysis, simulation, monitoring, control, optimization, and automation of electrical power systems. ETAP electrical engineering software offers the best and most comprehensive suite of integrated power system enterprise solution.
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    IdeaCloud

    IdeaCloud

    IdeaCloud

    IdeaCloud offers a new mix of services and technology to help brands find and retain new customers through a powerful interactive platform. IdeaCloud is an interactive storytelling platform that elevates discussions about technology by creating a context that customers easily understand. Through a patent-pending, cloud-based trigger system, IdeaCloud creates vivid visualizations that showcase technology—putting it in motion across multiple screens and devices with a click, touch or swipe. IdeaCloud is a powerful technology that’s made more powerful by a team of visual storytellers and expert collaborators. They craft stories combining animation, mobile apps and a full range of digital formats to bring use cases to life. IdeaCloud simulations are ideal for keynotes, sales meetings, tradeshows, and more because they open a door to the audience and connect them to the experience in thoughtful ways.
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