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How Many Simulation & CAE Software Products Does G2 Track?

Total Products under this Category: 480

Category Stats (Nov 2026)

  • Average Rating: 4.35/5 The average rating of products in this category, based on all submitted ratings
  • Top Trending Product: Simcenter Feko (+3.37%) - Among all products in this category, Simcenter Feko recorded the largest rating increase compared to last month

Last updated: November 01, 2026

How Does G2 Rank Simulation & CAE Software Products?

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G2's software rankings are built on verified user reviews, rigorous moderation, and a consistent research methodology maintained by a team of analysts and data experts. Each product is measured using the same transparent criteria, with no paid placement or vendor influence. While reviews reflect real user experiences, which can be subjective, they offer valuable insight into how software performs in the hands of professionals. Together, these inputs power the G2 Score, a standardized way to compare tools within every category.

G2 Grid® for Simulation & CAE Software

G2 Grid® for Simulation & CAE Software plotting products by satisfaction and market presence

Highlighted products: SOLIDWORKS, MATLAB, Fidelity CFD Platform, Simcenter STAR-CCM+, Capital, Simcenter Simsolid, Designcenter Solid Edge, and Simcenter Hypermesh.

Underlying data: [Grid® JSON](https://www.g2.com/categories/simulation-cae/grids.json?focus%5B%5D=solidworks&focus%5B%5D=matlab&focus%5B%5D=cadence-design-systems-fidelity-cfd-platform&focus%5B%5D=simcenter-star-ccm&focus%5B%5D=capital&focus%5B%5D=simcenter-simsolid&focus%5B%5D=designcenter-solid-edge&focus%5B%5D=simcenter-hypermesh)

Virtura3D

Virtura3D is an Authorized Partner for Digital Analysis (CFD and FEA) product sales for the Simerics brand of products across North America. Virtura3D utilizes a consultative methodology when engaging with stakeholders to ensure that the your requirements and challenges are understood and that all needs are met. Personal consultations with stakeholders include Discovery Meeting, Proof of Concept consultations and Evaluation assistance. Simerics develops high-end, advanced CFD solutions that outperforms competing technologies by delivering greater than 5X faster project completion, highly accurate results, unmatched ease-of-use and flexibility for Analysts and Engineers alike. Simerics is the only CFD tool to provide, under one interface and technology, the ease-of-use for Design Engineers to utilize it while having the comprehensive functionality Analysts demand.

Who Is the Company Behind Virtura3D?

Visual Components

Visual Components is a leading developer of 3D manufacturing simulation and robot offline programming (OLP) software. We offer manufacturers, machine builders, and system integrators a simple, quick, and cost-effective platform to design, optimize, and visualize production solutions. Visual Components software is trusted by hundreds of organizations worldwide to support critical planning and decision-making processes in the areas of factory design, virtual commissioning, production planning, offline programming, and more.

Who Is the Company Behind Visual Components?

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VisualSim Architect

VisualSim Architect is an electronic system-level software for modeling and simulation of electronic systems, embedded software and semiconductors.

Who Is the Company Behind VisualSim Architect?

VSO.ai

Synopsys VSO.ai™ (Verification Space Optimization) delivers the industry’s first AI-driven verification solution to help verification teams achieve coverage closure faster and with higher quality. The system works autonomously to reach coverage targets as quickly and as cheaply as possible.

Who Is the Company Behind VSO.ai?

  • Seller: Synopsys
  • Year Founded: 1986
  • HQ Location: Mountain View, CA
  • LinkedIn® Page: www.linkedin.com
    27,592 employees on LinkedIn®
  • Ownership: NASDAQ:SNPS
  • Total Revenue (USD mm): $3,685

WELSIM

WELSIM engineering simulation software helps researchers and engineers conduct simulation studies and prototype virtual products.

Who Is the Company Behind WELSIM?

  • Seller: Welsim
  • Year Founded: 2017
  • HQ Location: Bridgeville, US
  • LinkedIn® Page: www.linkedin.com
    1 employees on LinkedIn®

What's The Price (WTP)

What’s The Price enables buyers and category managers to determine their supplier’s price at any given point in time. We give a cost price breakdown of any product and get you access to real-time commodity prices of over 1600 raw materials.

Who Is the Company Behind What's The Price (WTP)?

xcPEP Should Cost Software

xcPEP is a SaaS platform delivering real-world accurate, transparent & defensible should cost analysis for mechanical, electrical & electronics components from drawings or physical parts. xcPEP has built-in cost models across mechanical, electrical and electronics components. Users can edit these models or create new ones to match their manufacturing logic directly in the xcPEP Cost Model Editor, without writing any code. The platform is powered by xcPROC, its city- and time-specific costdata library. xcPROC includes datasets for raw materials, labour, machine rates, tooling, operations and more for multiple cities in the USA, Mexico, India, China, Germany, Europe, Taiwan and other key manufacturing regions worldwide. xcPEP integrates with PLM and ERP systems via APIs, so part data can flow between xcPEP and your existing systems. The platform is delivered as a secure, cloud-hosted SaaS solution with role-based access, automatic updates and enterprise-grade security.

Who Is the Company Behind xcPEP Should Cost Software?

XFdtd 3D Electromagnetic Simulation Software

XFdtd Electromagnetic Simulation Software is a full wave 3D EM solver for designing and analyzing complex, high-fidelity devices. XF leads the market in FDTD-based modeling and simulation. Why FDTD? The main benefit of the FDTD approach is the excellent scaling performance of the method as the problem size grows. As the number of unknowns increases, the FDTD approach quickly outpaces other methods in efficiency. FDTD has also been identified as the preferred method for performing electromagnetic simulations for biological effects from wireless devices. Applications Include: • Antenna Design and Placement • Automotive Radar • Biomedical EM Analysis • EMI/EMC Testing • Microwave Devices and Waveguides • Radar and Scattering • SAR Validation

Who Is the Company Behind XFdtd 3D Electromagnetic Simulation Software?

  • Seller: Remcom
  • Year Founded: 1994
  • HQ Location: State College, US
  • LinkedIn® Page: www.linkedin.com
    38 employees on LinkedIn®

xStream

xStream is an advanced transient analysis tool used by engineers to simulate high-speed acoustic events in steam and gas piping systems. It plays a critical role in evaluating system responses to dynamic events such as turbine trips and blowdowns. xStream enables the assessment of transient forces, as well as real-time changes in pressures, temperatures, and flows—ensuring the safety, reliability, and performance of complex high-pressure piping systems.

Who Is the Company Behind xStream?

  • Seller: Datacor
  • Year Founded: 1981
  • HQ Location: Florham Park, US
  • LinkedIn® Page: www.linkedin.com
    299 employees on LinkedIn®

ZeBu

Synopsys software-defined ZeBu® emulation systems deliver the performance needed to make verification teams and software developers working on the most advanced chips successful. ZeBu emulation systems are modular, allowing users to deploy the capacity needed in a scalable and easily extensible fashion.

Who Is the Company Behind ZeBu?

  • Seller: Synopsys
  • Year Founded: 1986
  • HQ Location: Mountain View, CA
  • LinkedIn® Page: www.linkedin.com
    27,592 employees on LinkedIn®
  • Ownership: NASDAQ:SNPS
  • Total Revenue (USD mm): $3,685

Zeiss

Who Is the Company Behind Zeiss?

  • Seller: ZEISS
  • Year Founded: 1846
  • HQ Location: Oberkochen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
  • LinkedIn® Page: www.linkedin.com
    25,990 employees on LinkedIn®
Daniel Rivera
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Researched and written by Daniel Rivera
Updated April 9, 2026