--- title: Ansys Icepak Reviews meta\_title: 'Ansys Icepak Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 25 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Ansys Icepak works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.4 review\_count: 25 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-07' parent\_category: name: CAD & PLM url: https://www.g2.com/categories/cad-plm --- # Ansys Icepak Reviews & Product Details Claimed ###### Profile Status This profile is currently managed by Ansys Icepak but has limited features. Are you part of the Ansys Icepak team? [Upgrade your plan](https://sell.g2.com) to enhance your branding and engage with visitors to your profile! Ansys Icepak provides powerful electronic cooling solutions that utilize the industry leading Ansys Fluent computational fluid dynamics (CFD) solver for thermal and fluid flow analyses of integrated circuits (ICs), packages, printed circuit boards (PCBs) and electronic assemblies. The Ansys Icepak CFD solver uses the Ansys Electronics Desktop (AEDT) graphical user interface (GUI). Perform conduction, convection and radiation conjugate heat transfer analyses, with many advanced capabilities to model laminar and turbulent flows, and species analysis including radiation and convection. Some of the product specs: - MCAD and ECAD Support - Solar radiation - Parametrics and Optimization - Customization and Automation - Network Modeling - DC Joule Heating Analysis - Electro-thermal and Thermo-Mechanical - Extensive Libraries for Thermal - Liquid Cooling - Dynamic Thermal Management - Varying Flow and Power ROM * * * Seller [Ansys, Inc.](https://www.g2.com/sellers/ansys-inc) Discussions [Ansys Icepak Community](https://www.g2.com/products/ansys-icepak/discuss) Languages Supported English Overview by Marion BLANC Show More ## Value at a Glance Averages based on real user reviews. ### Perceived Cost $$$$$ [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/ansys-icepak/pricing) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![SolidWorks Simulation](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "SolidWorks Simulation") SolidWorks Simulation 4.4/5(60) ](https://www.g2.com/products/dassault-systemes-solidworks-simulation/reviews) [ ![MATLAB](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "MATLAB") MATLAB 4.5/5(771) ](https://www.g2.com/products/matlab/reviews) [ ![SOLIDWORKS](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "SOLIDWORKS") SOLIDWORKS 4.5/5(646) ](https://www.g2.com/products/solidworks/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/ansys-icepak/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 25 real user reviews. Perceived Cost $$$$$ [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ![KishoreNaidu L.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "KishoreNaidu L.") KL KishoreNaidu L. Mechanical Engineer II Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 10/22/2020 "Robust analyzing Thermal from ANSYS" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Ansys Icepak? Icepak results are accurate, i modelled PCB in Icepak and physically I measured board with infrared camera to see the difference in results, i see the temperature gradient is almost matching and temperatures are close to 2-3 Deg C. same i tried its great tool to support design. we can save time with tool for smaller problems. need to have some expertise to use it ease, once you get the interface its very good tool . Supporting Layout engineer in component placement by executing feasibility analysis for best thermal solution. we loved this tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Ansys Icepak? user interface should be improved and tool tips are needed, this will help engineers to us the tool seamless. sometime the crashing and fluent solver is running. this needs to be improved. large models are always has issues with time vs machine. also meshing must be improved and import of meshing from other tools are needed to implemented soon. cost of tool must be lowered to suite the startups. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Ansys Icepak: buy with parallel license, its saves time and buy machine. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Ansys Icepak solving and how is that benefiting you? i used to perform Rack or Cabinet level and board level thermal simulation and optimization. 30 KW Heat removal from a test setup with Liquid Cold Plates copper pipes vacuum brazed to a aluminum plate in 19inch rack. As inlet water at 30 Deg C. Design and Simulation, prototyping. Modeling done in SolidWorks and simulation done in Ansys Icepak was quick and results were helped to find the right paths and optimized designs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite AB Amey B. Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 10/18/2020 Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores. "Ansys Icepak is a great thermal management tool." 5/5 What do you like best about Ansys Icepak? It can handle any kind of complex geometries, which is a very important feature. It can also do a faster problem solving as the solver it uses, is very robust. I have used it extensively and test results match the predicted simulation results. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Ansys Icepak? Updating the design can be made more robust. Exporting CAD geometry from Icepak should be made more robust. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Ansys Icepak: If you want to solve your thermal design problems, Ansys Icepak should be your first choice. One can surely say that future is going to be this software and no other thermal management tool. Highly recommended by our team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Ansys Icepak solving and how is that benefiting you? We solve our customers thermal design problems with Ansys Icepak. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![kula segara P.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "kula segara P.") KP kula segara P. Master Engineer Trainee Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 10/1/2020 "i have been working in the electronic cooling for the past two years" 4/5 What do you like best about Ansys Icepak? The amount of time to learn the tool is very fast, most of the meshing is automatic which saves your time on simulation The tool also has other feature to debug the divergence which comes handy when you are having troble finding the issue related to convergence Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Ansys Icepak? The tool GUI and features hasn't been updated for a long time while other ansys modules received updates every year Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Ansys Icepak: if your aim is to simulate products containing the Chips and PCB then i would highly recommend you to go with ansys Icepak Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Ansys Icepak solving and how is that benefiting you? Icepak shines in one area which is PCB thermal simulation, it has all the necessary options to design the components (QFN,BGA..etc) it can simulate from board level to system level wihtout any issues Forced convections simulations has been performed and works really good in the Icepak it can simulate PCB with traces which can be imported from the gerber files MRF simulations involving Fan also works as predicted Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Himanshu K.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Himanshu K.") HK Himanshu K. Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 10/26/2020 "ICEPACK from a student's eye" 5/5 What do you like best about Ansys Icepak? The ability to take any input and structural, thermal conduction, and thermal convection analysis all in one place. It is fast and requires minimum work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Ansys Icepak? The GUI is not user friendly. Needs a lot of work. It feels redundant sometimes. The look of it is poor and things are hard to look at. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Ansys Icepak: I would reccomend this software to people for use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Ansys Icepak solving and how is that benefiting you? Performance of various cooling techniques on circuit boards. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering") UM Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 10/7/2020 "Very easy to use and excellent user interface." 5/5 What do you like best about Ansys Icepak? I have used this software in one of subject electronic packaging which involves various flow analysis and calculations for chip cooling. One of the best thing about this it gives more accurate results which gives perfect design model for your analysis. As engineer we are expected to get near perfect results in our project. I would like to mention one more thing about its user interface is really good, its very handy and easy to operate. I have seen may software with very complicated user interface. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Ansys Icepak? There is nothing much to dislike about this software but I would like to add one more thing here. If we increasing mesh size it will take much longer time in normal computer than expected , but that is fine because It will give you more accurate results. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Ansys Icepak solving and how is that benefiting you? It was my part of syllabus for subject Electronic Packaging. I was using this software for couple of projects which helps me a lot to understand the subject in details and its importance in practical application for thermal flow analysis. I was analyzing the heat sink for various conditions to make design changes in it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Information Technology and Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Information Technology and Services") UI Verified User in Information Technology and Services Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 10/7/2020 "Ansys Icepak Best tool for Electronic and Thermal Simulation Study" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Ansys Icepak? Ansys icepak is very friendly to use and has a lot of features in modeling the different electronic boards and performing thermal simulations and other concepts of heat related problems.It will help in easy understanding of the effects of thermal behavior of components used in Simulations Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Ansys Icepak? Ansys icepak has a limited functionality when it comes to help window but there are user guides which have played greater role in understanding the basics of tool usage Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Ansys Icepak: Its a good tool to perform electronic simulations Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Ansys Icepak solving and how is that benefiting you? I solve vehicle level simulation on ECU and cooling systems. It is very user friendly tool and gives a clear accurate results with definite approach on the modeling which helps in better understanding of physics Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Madhav C.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Madhav C.") MC Madhav C. analyst Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 10/14/2020 Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores. "It was great learning opportunity" 5/5 What do you like best about Ansys Icepak? It helped me analyze easily & give appropriate result Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Ansys Icepak? There was no such thing to dislike. It was great throughout Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Ansys Icepak: If you're looking for easiest & fastest way to analyze beams / structure then ansys icepack is there for you Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Ansys Icepak solving and how is that benefiting you? Sometimes i need to find out bending moment of particular structure. That time easy & fast way to get result is from ansys icepack Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Consumer Electronics](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Consumer Electronics") UC Verified User in Consumer Electronics Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 10/20/2020 "I used Icepak for many years. I like the tech support and its capabilities which is very broad" 5/5 What do you like best about Ansys Icepak? Easy to use and very straightforward to use Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Ansys Icepak? maybe it is a bit annoying not being able to import CAD directly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Ansys Icepak: Please consider using Icepak for any thermal management application you have. Its capabilities are really broad and the technical support and resources to master the product are amazing! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Ansys Icepak solving and how is that benefiting you? all kinds....from medical device application, to consumer electronics, to industrial applications Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Shivaprasada K.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Shivaprasada K.") SK Shivaprasada K. Freelance Engineer Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 11/17/2020 "Good integration with work bench , coupled analysis . Good package ane modeling option." 3.5/5 What do you like best about Ansys Icepak? Integration with work bench , optimization , coupling with Ansys mechanical. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Ansys Icepak? No option to drag and drop modeling ( technology used in FloTHERM) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Ansys Icepak: For package level modeling lot of options available . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Ansys Icepak solving and how is that benefiting you? Automotive electronics , helped in heat sink and fan optimization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Jimil M. S.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Jimil M. S.") JS Jimil M. S. Application Development Engineer Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 9/23/2020 "Importance of Ansys Icepak in Thermal Management of Electronics" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Ansys Icepak? Icepak has an excellent Graphical user interface for modeling cooling of electronic systems. It has excellent macros for cooling components like heat pipes and thermo-electric devices. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Ansys Icepak? Icepak needs good detailed models of components. It also requires physics for two-phase cooling. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Ansys Icepak: It’s good for air cooling and cold plate cooling. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Ansys Icepak solving and how is that benefiting you? Cooling of electronics. Compact and quick solutions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ## Questions about Ansys Icepak? Ask real users or explore answers from the community Get practical answers, real workflows, and honest pros and cons from the G2 community or share your insights. [ Ask about Ansys Icepak ](https://www.g2.com/products/ansys-icepak/discussions/new) GU Guest User What is Ansys Icepak used for? 0 Upvotes 0 [ Join the conversation ](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-ansys-icepak-used-for) ![kula segara P.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "kula segara P.") KP kula segara Pandiyan • Last activity almost 6 years ago Ansys Icepak still has issues like it can't simulate inclined PCB why are these issues not sorted out? 1 Upvote 1 [ Join the conversation ](https://www.g2.com/discussions/32209-ansys-icepak-still-has-issues-like-it-can-t-simulate-inclined-pcb-why-are-these-issues-not-sorted-out) [ View all Discussions ](https://www.g2.com/products/ansys-icepak/discuss) ##### Pricing Pricing details for this product isn’t currently available. Visit the vendor’s website to learn more. 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