Compare the Top Simulation Software for Windows as of October 2025

What is Simulation Software for Windows?

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 for Windows 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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    UberCloud

    UberCloud

    Simr (formerly UberCloud)

    Simr (formerly UberCloud) is a cutting-edge platform for Simulation Operations Automation (SimOps). It streamlines and automates complex simulation workflows, enhancing productivity and collaboration. Leveraging cloud-based infrastructure, Simr offers scalable, cost-effective solutions for industries like automotive, aerospace, and electronics. Trusted by leading global companies, Simr empowers engineers to innovate efficiently and effectively. Simr supports a variety of CFD, FEA and other CAE software including Ansys, COMSOL, Abaqus, CST, STAR-CCM+, MATLAB, Lumerical and more. Simr automates every major cloud including Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, and Google GCP.
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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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    AnyLogic

    AnyLogic

    The AnyLogic Company

    AnyLogic is the standard in multimethod modeling technology, delivering increased efficiency and less risk when tackling complex business challenges. The unmatched flexibility found in AnyLogic allows users to capture the complexity of virtually any system, at any level of detail, and gain a deeper insight into the interdependent processes inside and around an organization. AnyLogic has a GSA Contract schedule #47QTCA18D007Q. Government agencies of the USA may purchase through GSA Advantage.
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    FEATool Multiphysics

    FEATool Multiphysics

    Precise Simulation

    FEATool Multiphysics - "Physics Simulation Made Easy" - a fully integrated physics, FEA, and CFD simulation toolbox. FEATool Multiphysics is a fully integrated simulation platform with a unified interface for several Finite Element Analysis (FEA) and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) multi-physics solvers, such as OpenFOAM, SU2 Code, and FEniCS. This uniquely allows for modeling coupled physics phenomena such as found in fluid flow, heat transfer, structural, electromagnetics, acoustics, and chemical engineering applications, within a single user-friendly interface. With these capabilities, FEATool Multiphysics has become trusted tool by engineers and researchers worldwide to accelerate innovation and quickly achieve results in the energy, automotive, semi-conductor, and process industries.
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    ExtendSim

    ExtendSim

    Imagine That

    ExtendSim consists of a full range of tools for any type of simulation. No matter how you want to use ExtendSim, building models, running models, analysis, etc., there is a package that will fit your needs. There are ExtendSim products for building, experimenting with, and analyzing models, Model Developer Editions, and more specialized packages designed strictly for running models, analyzing models, or for use as a learning tool. Figure out which package might work best for you based on how you intend to use ExtendSim by visiting User Types. Create, use, and interactively run models, build custom interfaces and components, exchange data with and be controlled by other applications. Each Model Developer Edition (MDE) of ExtendSim has the same core set of capabilities. In them you can create and build models and interfaces, change values and settings, run simulations and animations, perform experiments, do analysis and optimization, save and export results.
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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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    Simcad Pro

    Simcad Pro

    CreateASoft, Inc.

    Simcad Pro lets you visualize, analyze and optimize process flow systems in an interactive 2D/3D simulation modeling environment. Plan, optimize, and re-arrange processes and procedures while optimizing layouts, facility improvement, automation and scheduling. Simcad Pro integrates live and historical data to provide the most effective simulation tool on the market. Applications in multiple industries including manufacturing, automation, logistics, distribution warehouse, food and beverage, services, and more. Multi-Threaded - 64 bit Engine. On-the-fly simulation - Make real-time changes to the model while the simulation is running. Animate the model in 2D, 3D and VR with Ray Tracing, light effect, and shadows. Singular model building environment. Smart, Spatially Aware Agents, Sub-Flows, Collision Avoidance and Real-Time Connectivity. Spaghetti Diagrams, Congestion Analysis, Heat Maps, Efficiency and OEE. Extensive reporting and analysis tools. Scenario Analyzer.
    Starting Price: $4950.00/one-time/user
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    PaleBlue

    PaleBlue

    PaleBlue

    Create immersive training courses in minutes, building on top of rich and powerful templates. Turn your employee training programs into engaging virtual experiences that last – on screen devices or in Virtual Reality. Reduce training costs by introducing immersive training. Improve efficiency of your operations saving up to 40% project budget. Go through operations and procedures before they take place in reality. The more you exercise, the more prepared you are for the unexpected. Immersive training is fun and easy to follow. Gamification makes it much more engaging than an eLearning course. Go through operations and procedures before they take place in reality. The more you exercise, the more prepared you are for the unexpected.
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    Simio

    Simio

    Simio

    Simio is a simulation, production planning and scheduling software designed from the ground up to support the object modeling paradigm. Simio aims to deliver rapid risk analysis and cost reduction capabilities to organizations of all sizes and industries. Simio is available in five editions to suit the unique needs of businesses: Personal, Design, Team, Enterprise, and Portal editions. Simio Academic Edition is also available to students and faculty.
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    PSCAD

    PSCAD

    Manitoba Hydro International

    As power systems evolve, the need for accurate, intuitive simulation tools becomes more and more important. With PSCAD you can build, simulate, and model your systems with ease, providing limitless possibilities in power system simulation. Included is a comprehensive library of system models ranging from simple passive elements and control functions to electric machines and other complex devices. PSCAD has benefited from over 40 years of continuous research and development. We are inspired by the ideas and feedback from our global user base. This philosophy has helped establish PSCAD as the most popular power system transient simulation package available today. Software maintenance is the most cost-effective way to protect, support, and maintain your investment. With it, you gain the greatest value from your software.
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    VABS

    VABS

    AnalySwift

    VABS is a popular general-purpose cross-sectional analysis tool for quickly and easily computing beam properties and recovering 3D fields of composite beams, including helicopter and wind turbine blades. It is the only tool capable of rigorously decoupling an original 3D slender solid with complex microstructure into a simple engineering beam model. AnalySwift’s roots are in the aerospace industry, where its tools have been used for composite beams (helicopter rotor blades, propellers, high aspect ratio wings, wing section design), plates/shells, and 3D structures. Used for several years in the wind turbine industry, VABS delivers rapid, rigorous results when modeling wind turbine blades. SwiftComp provides additional solutions for plates/shells, and 3D structures manufactured from composites. As the automobile industry adopts a higher use of composites, opportunities increase to leverage SwiftComp and VABS to model a wide variety of structures, including beams, plates, shells, etc.
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    Solver SDK

    Solver SDK

    Frontline Systems

    Use optimization and simulation models in your desktop, Web or mobile application. Use the same high-level objects (like Problem, Solver, Variable and Function), collections, properties and methods across different programming languages. The same object-oriented API is exposed "over the wire" through Web Services WS-* standards to remote clients in PHP, JavaScript, C# and other languages. Procedural languages can use conventional calls that correspond naturally to the properties and methods of the Object-Oriented API. Linear and quadratic programming, mixed-integer programming, smooth nonlinear optimization, global optimization, and non-smooth evolutionary and tabu search are all included. The world's best optimizers, from Gurobi™, XPRESS™ and MOSEK™ for linear, quadratic and conic models to KNITRO™, SQP and GRG methods for nonlinear models "plug into" Solver SDK. Easily create a sparse DoubleMatrix object with 1 million rows and columns.
    Starting Price: $2495 one-time payment
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    Working Model 2D

    Working Model 2D

    Design Simulation Technologies

    Working Model is the best selling motion simulation product in the world. Confirm your design with powerful analytical tools. Fast “run-analyze-refine” cycle helps to optimize designs before building physical prototypes. Reduce physical prototyping. You are in total control of the simulation environment. Quickly build, run, and refine simulations with pre-defined objects and constraints. Run, stop, reset, single step, or pause the simulation at any time. Analyze your latest design by measuring force, torque, acceleration, etc. acting on any object. View output as vectors or in numbers and graphs in English or metric units. Import your 2D CAD drawings in DXF format. Input values from equations, sliders and DDE links to MATLAB and Excel. Create bodies and specify its mass properties, initial velocity, electrostatic charge, etc. Run or edit scripts to optimize simulations, document models, and more. Create visually appealing presentations by attaching pictures.
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    HyperWorks

    HyperWorks

    Altair Engineering

    HyperWorks provides easy-to-learn, effective workflows that leverage domain knowledge and increase team productivity, enabling the efficient development of today’s increasingly complex and connected products. The new HyperWorks experience was created to free engineers to move from physics to physics, domain to domain, and even create reports without ever leaving their model. Create, explore and optimize designs within HyperWorks to produce robust designs that accurately model structures, mechanisms, fluids, electromagnetics, electrical, embedded software, systems design, and manufacturing processes. The solution-specific workflows enhance a growing number of engineering processes including fatigue analysis, concept design optimization, CFD modeling, and design exploration. Each provides a meticulously designed and intuitive user interface, differentiated for each user profile while remaining consistent and easy to learn.
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    iMODELER

    iMODELER

    Consideo

    Use the iMODELER to gain insights, explore how things are interconnected and enhance your brain’s capability to tackle complexity. It will make you become more successful. The new iMODELER offers a revolutionary way to both visualize and analyze (via its unique Insight Matrix) complexity, thus allowing for better planning, decision-making and communication. The iMODELER even allows for quantitative (e.g. system dynamics) modeling of scenarios. You can “imodel” politics, economics, management practices (e.g. systemic change management), complex projects (systemic project management), strategies (systemic strategy development), process optimization (OR), family matters, your work-life balance and plenty more to foresee what might happen in the future and to identify the best form of action for success.
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    ISG-virtuos
    An increasing number of variants with a tendency towards batch size 1, shorter product life cycles and high cost pressure: In the age of digitization, digital twins are indispensable in many areas. ISG Industrielle Steuerungstechnik GmbH has years of experience in the realization of simulation solutions with significant competitive advantages for customers in the field of mechanical and plant engineering. With the new generation ISG-virtuos 3 the simulation platform also becomes a solution for manufacturing automation and intralogistics. ISG-virtuos is an open, cross-company simulation platform, with which complete production systems including all components (controls, robots, material flow etc.) can be checked and optimized in deterministic real time. The simulations are created from virtual components, which - stored in corresponding libraries - can be reused and exchanged at any time.
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