Best Simulation Software

Compare the Top Simulation Software as of May 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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    Innoslate

    Innoslate

    SPEC Innovations

    Advanced Simulation for Smarter Decision-Making Innoslate offers a cutting-edge simulation capability that enables organizations to easily model, analyze, and optimize complex systems, processes, and workflows. Whether validating system behavior, identifying bottlenecks, or exploring "what-if" scenarios, Innoslate delivers the insights needed to make smarter, data-driven decisions. End-to-End Process Simulation: Visualize and simulate workflows, operations, and system interactions to predict outcomes and identify areas for improvement. Discrete Event and Monte Carlo Simulations: Perform detailed system performance analyses under varying conditions, accounting for uncertainties and variability. Traceability with Requirements and Models: Link simulations directly to system requirements and models to maintain traceability and ensure alignment with project goals. AI-Assisted Optimization: Leverage AI to refine simulations, uncover hidden inefficiencies, and enhance system performance.
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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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    Maya

    Maya

    Autodesk

    Create expansive worlds, complex characters, and dazzling effects. Bring believable characters to life with engaging animation tools. Shape 3D objects and scenes with intuitive modeling tools in Maya® software. Create realistic effects—from explosions to cloth simulation. A new visual programming environment using dynamic solvers enables you to create blockbuster-worthy effects quickly. Build custom graphs using the Bifrost Graph Editor. Create stunning effects—from snow and sand to dust storms and explosions—with ready-to-use graphs. Render your most complex projects with Arnold. Arnold is built to manage complex characters, scenery, and lighting challenges. Arnold is integrated with Maya, so you can see high-quality previews and iterate changes quickly. Save time with Arnold’s artist-friendly UI and simple, intuitive controls.
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    Simulink

    Simulink

    MathWorks

    Design and simulate your system in Simulink before moving to hardware. Explore and implement designs that you wouldn’t otherwise consider – without having to write C, C++, or HDL code. Explore a wide design space by modeling the system under test and the physical plant. Your entire team can use one multi-domain environment to simulate how all parts of the system behave. Package and share your simulations with collaborators, suppliers, and clients. Reduce expensive prototypes by testing your system under conditions that are otherwise too risky or time-consuming to consider. Validate your design with hardware-in-the-loop testing and rapid prototyping. Maintain traceability from requirements to design to code. Instead of writing thousands of lines of code by hand, automatically generate production-quality C and HDL code that behaves the same way as the model you created in Simulink. Then deploy it directly onto your embedded processor or FPGA/ASIC.
    Starting Price: $860 per year
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    Ansys Cloud Direct
    Access Ansys Cloud Direct anywhere, anytime to obtain endless simulation capabilities compatible with most Ansys solvers. Engineering simulation has long been constrained by fixed computing resources available on a desktop or cluster. Ansys Cloud provides access to on-demand, cloud-based computing resources, including both interactive workstations and HPC clusters, for faster, high-fidelity results offering greater performance insight. Ansys Cloud increases simulation throughput by removing the hardware barrier. Ansys Cloud Direct is a scalable and cost-effective approach to HPC in the cloud. To leverage the combined benefits of cloud computing and best-in-class engineering simulation, Ansys partnered with Microsoft® Azure™ to create a secure cloud solution. Within Ansys Mechanical, Ansys Fluent, Ansys Electronics Desktop, Ansys SPEOS, Ansys Discovery, Ansys LS-Dyna, Ansys LST, Ansys CFX and Ansys Lumerical, you can easily access HPC in the cloud directly from the applications
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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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    Wisebatt

    Wisebatt

    Wisebatt

    With the online simulation tool Wisebatt, start designing your device and access accurate results in a few minutes. With data visualizations, learn how your device's components and states perform and consume the most battery power. Find how to improve it. Know from the very beginning how much your device’s BOM will cost based on 150 distributors and get directly the right technical support. Take an edge on the next design step: download the lists of all the connections between your components, their datasheets as well as their parameters.
    Starting Price: €79 per month
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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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    IVRESS

    IVRESS

    Advanced Science & Automation

    IVRESS is a simulation software product that offers users an integrated virtual reality environment. It's an object-oriented VR toolkit that's designed to enable developers to create immersive interactive worlds. While this might sound like a lofty goal, IVRESS comes with an extensive library of prebuilt objects that can make this a much easier task. Convenient selection and manipulation tools give users the freedom to select any spatial and planar areas they wish. Photorealistic rendering features like texture mapping and transparency make it possible to model fairly realistic scenes. Once you've finished building a VR environment with IVRESS, you can use the spatial navigation control to fly through the scene. This means you'll be able to view models from every side. R&D teams that modeled scenes in older software can import VRML 97 and PLTO3D objects instantly.
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    Questa Verification
    Questa Verification is the first verification platform with a UVM-aware debug solution that provides engineers essential information about the operation of their dynamic class-based testbenches in the familiar context of source code and waveform viewing. The Questa verification solution is an assemblage of technologies, methodologies, and libraries for modern ASIC and FPGA designs. Questa continues to evolve in response to the growing complexity of SoC designs. Insight and updates on concepts, values, standards, methodologies, and examples to assist with the understanding of what advanced functional verification technologies can do and how to most effectively apply them. The Verification Horizons publication provides concepts, values, methodologies and examples to assist with the understanding of what advanced functional verification technologies can do and how to most effectively apply them.
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