--- title: Altair Inspire Reviews meta\_title: 'Altair Inspire Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 76 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Altair Inspire works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.3 review\_count: 76 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-09' parent\_category: name: CAD & PLM url: https://www.g2.com/categories/cad-plm --- # Altair Inspire Reviews & Product Details Claimed ###### Profile Status This profile is currently managed by Altair Inspire but has limited features. Are you part of the Altair Inspire team? [Upgrade your plan](https://sell.g2.com) to enhance your branding and engage with visitors to your profile! Altair® Inspire™ is an intuitive, powerful family of integrated software products that accelerates simulation-driven design throughout the product development lifecycle, from concept to reality, while reducing product time-to-market. Used early in the design process, Inspire enables the creation of designs focused on both performance and manufacturability. Inspire empowers its users to explore, develop, and manufacture high-performance products in a single, intuitive environment. Accelerate Design from Concept to Reality • Geometry Creation and Modification: Supports use of parametric surfaces, solids, polyNURBS, facets, and implicit modeling within the same model. • Computational Physics for Rapid Exploration: Makes complex physics simulations accessible and designer friendly, enabling rapid, accurate analysis of structural, fluid flow, and motion dynamics. • Design Optimization for Topology and Beyond: Goes beyond standard topology optimization, incorporating AI for generative design that produces practical, sustainable products. • Manufacturability Analysis: Evaluate processes like casting, metal forming, injection molding, metal and polymer extrusion, polyurethane foaming, and additive manufacturing early to prevent defects and costly retooling. * * * Seller [Altair](https://www.g2.com/sellers/altair-186799f5-3238-493f-b3ad-b8cac484afd7) Discussions [Altair Inspire Community](https://www.g2.com/products/altair-inspire/discuss) Languages Supported German, English, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Chinese (Simplified) Solution Type Best-of-Breed Overview by Shaun Kroeger (Director – Partner Sales, Americas at Altair) Show More ## Value at a Glance Averages based on real user reviews. ### Perceived Cost $$$$$ [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/altair-inspire/pricing) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![SOLIDWORKS](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "SOLIDWORKS") SOLIDWORKS 4.5/5(646) ](https://www.g2.com/products/solidworks/reviews) [ ![Autodesk Fusion](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Autodesk Fusion") Autodesk Fusion 4.5/5(520) ](https://www.g2.com/products/autodesk-fusion/reviews) [ ![Ansys Fluent](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Ansys Fluent") Ansys Fluent 4.5/5(122) ](https://www.g2.com/products/ansys-fluent/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/altair-inspire/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 76 real user reviews. Perceived Cost $$$$$ [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ![Shantanu A.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Shantanu A.") SA Shantanu A. Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 3/30/2023 "Altair Inspire" 4/5 What do you like best about Altair Inspire? You can define a motion sequence pretty easily. Topology optimization is best. UI is user friendly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Altair Inspire? Need to improve mesh refinement capabilities. Other than that there is nothing that I dislike. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Altair Inspire solving and how is that benefiting you? Offers a free trial version. integrates with simsolid. Lots of tutorial on YouTube to learn from. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Automotive](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Automotive") UA Verified User in Automotive Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 4/11/2023 "Altair Inspire for Optimization and Motion analysis" 4/5 What do you like best about Altair Inspire? The user interface is pretty good and easy to learn, It has helped us in performing multiple analysis in stipulated time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Altair Inspire? Although it uses Optistruct as its solver, we observed differences in the results compared to using Hypermesh as the preprocessing software, and cannot come to a conclusion on it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Altair Inspire solving and how is that benefiting you? Performing analysis faster and that helps us to take design decisions quickly to further aid the overall design of the vehicle. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Ankit D.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Ankit D.") AD Ankit D. Associate Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 3/29/2023 "user friendly" 5/5 What do you like best about Altair Inspire? User friendly, easy to access, easy to user, redering is so good that it feels like a real part or assembly, Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Altair Inspire? graphics could be better, require huge amount of RAM Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Altair Inspire solving and how is that benefiting you? Altair Inspire helped me solve the many problems Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Vimal D.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Vimal D.") VD Vimal D. Senior Engineer Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 4/6/2023 "Product Validation" 5/5 What do you like best about Altair Inspire? It's Was Good to Interact with Altair Inspire Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Altair Inspire? No Dislikes It Works Well So that I can Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Altair Inspire solving and how is that benefiting you? Optimization of Design in Modular Way Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 10/21/2023 Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite DK Dan K. Lead Data Engineer Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 1/11/2021 "Altair inspire is in charge of generating simulation material for us" 5/5 What do you like best about Altair Inspire? The software is used for the generation of 3D simulations that allow the evaluation of the totality of viability that a product has at a technical level. Altair inspire has a system that allows working with digital tests of each product that is developed, before its launch. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Altair Inspire? The physics provided by the platform are not as good, which slows down a bit the ability to write structural analysis of hardware, especially if you need to take into account the animations that have a high level of complexity. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Altair Inspire: Among the industrial modeling platforms, or among those based on 3D material rendering, Altair inspire is one of the best for creating intuitive simulations with a good level of lighting, and that do not need so much effort to explore large constructions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Altair Inspire solving and how is that benefiting you? Altair inspire provides all the tools to manage structural analysis on the parts that are designed, which leads to a large amount of information to work both in the construction of models and in the modification of motion simulations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite JL Justin L. Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 11/24/2020 "The best motion simulation software for motors or linear actuators" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Altair Inspire? The results of the motion simulation will be automatically transferred to the FEA solver. The user interface often allows you to follow a series of steps to successfully complete the motion simulation and finite element analysis of the design. It is easy to define a motion sequence. It is easy to define actuators, pin joints and slider joints. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Altair Inspire? The grid does not have the capacity to be refined. We must import the SOLIDWORKS assembly and relocate it in space. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Altair Inspire: Altair Inspire is the easiest way to learn and use for any smaller company that develops and uses motors and actuators to complete the job and require top-notch performance. Our first project required construction constraints to handle compensation loads. I cannot get actions from SOLIDWORKS to simulate the actions that will be performed. It took less than 8 hours to fully define and run the first simulation. It was found that the design of the excavator boom was not sufficient to reduce the weight or strength of the product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Altair Inspire solving and how is that benefiting you? We are a small company that designs and manufactures products using actuators and motors. When weight is not necessary and force is not high, it is simple, so simple math and sketches will provide enough information for product design. Some of our products are very sensitive to weight and the movement and load conditions are more complicated. These products require finite element analysis before any construction can begin. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Ed D.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Ed D.") ED Ed D. Owner Machinery Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 9/29/2019 "Best UI for motion simulation" 5/5 What do you like best about Altair Inspire? The user interface provides a work flow of the steps required to compete a simulation better than any previous software I have purchased or had demonstrations on. My prior experience includes Working Model 2D, Working Model 3D, Dynamic Designer, SolidWorks Motion and Matlab Simulink. Setting up the actual motor or actuator can be quick and simple or very complex and detailed. I used an Excel motion profile for the hydraulic motor and hydraulic cylinder on my first model. There is a place to input run output rate in Hz and simulation duration. The resultant forces at pin joints are easy to view so bearing area loads can be used to size the bearings or bushings. You can use the force results to determine motor size and cylinder size information as well. The results from the motion simulation are directly transferred to the FEA module where you can choose the number of peak load cases to simulate. The results can be viewed as combined values or you can see the results for each peak load case to determine how to refine the design. The tech support has be excellent. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Altair Inspire? The only current feature missing is mesh refinement in the FEA portion. The current help is weak so screen sharing support is needed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Altair Inspire: If you design equipment making movements and want to make better quality lighter weight products this should help meet your goals. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Altair Inspire solving and how is that benefiting you? The first project is a unit to side load and unload a mobility scooter into the back of a pickup. The lift capacity is 800 lbs. The lift container will need to be protect the contents from rain in Washington State and provide access for the person to drive in and out. Reducing unit weight, size and minimizing boom deflection are important design considerations that had to be met. This tool provided a way to do this. It will be mid-October before we have the prototype operational. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Jared C.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Jared C.") JC Jared C. Undergraduate Research Assistant Higher Education Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 6/13/2017 "Excellent, easy to use software" 4/5 What do you like best about Altair Inspire? This software is incredibly intuitive and really provides an excellent finished product. The software runs relatively quickly and will typically error right away, which is a nice feature. I did not use the geometric editing portions of the software, but it seems promising to be able to edit files directly in the program. The exportation of the finished product was also very easy to do and I was able to directly insert it into the CATIA v6 model that my team had been working on. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Altair Inspire? The optistruct functionality doesn't work as well as it could; the material often has gaps that don't make sense. When running very detailed models, there's a 5GB default maximum for the file size and that made me lose 14 hours of the optimization. Also, I found that decreasing the element sizes did very little as far as improving the results. The inclusion of carbon fiber into the material palette would be a very helpful addition. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Altair Inspire: Just play with it. It'll probably take some time to really get good at it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Altair Inspire solving and how is that benefiting you? Designing a fuselage structure for a tandem helicopter. The main benefit is not having to use Hypermesh, a program with a different order of magnitude as far as learning curves are concerned. I'm not completely convinced the program is as robust as hypermesh and optistruct, but I'm sure with more time that functionality can be simplified and streamlined into a more robust version of solid thinking. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller CT Christian T. Innovation Design Engineer Aviation & Aerospace Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 6/9/2017 "Creative design workhorse" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Altair Inspire? Ability to use Nurbs style modeling to make free form designs analyze. It allows the user to break their old design paradigms and really think and model in the abstract. I think poly-Nurbs modeling will be the future of CAD modeling, the freedom of free form modeling to be used with additive manufacturing, casting or molding opens up a whole world of new designs that make lighter, cheaper, and more unique parts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Altair Inspire? Having to run a full analysis to get results on small changes. Would be nice to have an iterative function that could adjust analysis results with small changes to the model. A more robust solver would also be nice. Sometimes it kicks out when you make the elements small. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Altair Inspire: Excellent software for new designs. Changes your thinking about traditional structures. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Altair Inspire solving and how is that benefiting you? Design for additive manufacturing and designing new lightweight structures. Creating innovative designs that can be analyzed before prototypes that are difficult and expensive to manufacture have to be built and tested. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller ![Alan P.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Alan P.") AP Alan P. Lab Technician Higher Education Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 6/9/2017 "Wonderful Tool and Great Tutorials" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Altair Inspire? I personally used Inspire solely for optimization of parts on my school's FSAE team. I found it very easy to pick up due to the helpful tutorials made available online. The software gave great results, was highly optimizable, and expanded ideas for potential part geometry. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Altair Inspire? In certain scenarios it was difficult to get the software to behave properly, albeit the load cases were odd, The modeling function was difficult to parameterize and I often had to settle for a generally dimensioned part or using CAD and importing a part rather than tightly controlling the base workpiece through Inspire. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Altair Inspire: Definitely worth experimenting with. There are huge implications and possibilities for design engineering and improvement as well as general understanding of ideal design principles. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Altair Inspire solving and how is that benefiting you? The greatest benefit was a general understanding of the potential for Inspire in future design work. Inspire brought up geometries which returned safety factors up to 10-15 times greater than previous designs without any additional weight. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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