--- title: Ansys LS-DYNA Reviews meta\_title: 'Ansys LS-DYNA Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 48 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Ansys LS-DYNA works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.5 review\_count: 48 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-07' parent\_category: name: CAD & PLM url: https://www.g2.com/categories/cad-plm --- # Ansys LS-DYNA Reviews & Product Details Claimed ###### Profile Status This profile is currently managed by Ansys LS-DYNA but has limited features. Are you part of the Ansys LS-DYNA team? [Upgrade your plan](https://sell.g2.com) to enhance your branding and engage with visitors to your profile! ANSYS LS-DYNA is the most commonly used explicit simulation program with multi-physics capabilities to simulate the response of materials to short periods of severe loading. Its many elements, contact formulations, material models and other controls can be used to simulate complex models with control over all the details of the problem. * * * Seller [Ansys, Inc.](https://www.g2.com/sellers/ansys-inc) Discussions [Ansys LS-DYNA Community](https://www.g2.com/products/ansys-ls-dyna/discuss) Solution Type Best-of-Breed Overview by Marion BLANC Show More ## Value at a Glance Averages based on real user reviews. ### Perceived Cost $$$$$ [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/ansys-ls-dyna/pricing) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![Altair Hypermesh](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Altair Hypermesh") Altair Hypermesh 4.4/5(116) ](https://www.g2.com/products/altair-hypermesh/reviews) [ ![Abaqus](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Abaqus") Abaqus 4.3/5(54) ](https://www.g2.com/products/abaqus/reviews) [ ![SolidWorks Simulation](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "SolidWorks Simulation") SolidWorks Simulation 4.4/5(60) ](https://www.g2.com/products/dassault-systemes-solidworks-simulation/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/ansys-ls-dyna/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 48 real user reviews. Perceived Cost $$$$$ [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ![Akshit V.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Akshit V.") AV Akshit V. Technical Specialist - CAx Automation Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 5/10/2026 "LS-DYNA Best for crash analysis" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Ansys LS-DYNA? LS-DYNA's standout strength is its explicit dynamics solver, which excels at simulating extreme, short-duration events like crashes, impacts, and explosions with remarkable accuracy. What makes it truly powerful is its massive parallelization capability — it scales efficiently across hundreds of CPU cores, dramatically cutting down solve times for complex, large-scale models Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Ansys LS-DYNA? The biggest downside of LS-DYNA is its steep learning curve — it's far from beginner-friendly, and even minor mismatches in card definitions or material parameters can produce completely wrong results without obvious warnings. On top of that, it carries a high licensing cost, making it hard to justify for smaller firms, and much of the advanced knowledge is locked in tribal wisdom among experienced users rather than accessible documentation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Ansys LS-DYNA solving and how is that benefiting you? I use it to solve crash simulations clients designs related to automobile industry . It's very useful as it works consistently on different designs and configurations Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite AS AJAY S. CAE Engineer Chemicals Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 2/14/2026 "Reliable, Accurate Multiphysics Simulations with trust of LS-dyna." 5/5 What do you like best about Ansys LS-DYNA? LS-Dyna is an industry-wide, well-known software for its explicit-domain simulation capabilities, serving industries such as automotive, aerospace, blast and mining, heavy equipment, chemicals, and more. I especially like LS-Dyna’s multiphysics simulation capability, along with the reliability and accuracy of its simulations. It also offers broad support for many element and material types, including options for degradation and failure-propagation behaviors. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Ansys LS-DYNA? LS-dyna has wide variety of the material library along with various cards to help stabilizes the solution and achieve the convergence. That also becomes its downside as minute variation or definition mismatch in the cards can results in completely useless results. Unless and until you know how its each parameter works and how to use each card its really difficult to get appropriate results. Its not at all beginner friendly, You can not directly start learning LS-dyna without any prior understanding or training in FEA domain and tools like, ansys, abaqus, nastran or optistruct. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Ansys LS-DYNA solving and how is that benefiting you? We are using Ansys LS-dyna for the virtual simulation and validation of the plastic components used in Automotive and Electrical industries, which saves our cost on physical validation and reduces the cycle time of design validation by implementing multiple iterations in virtual platform. this is huge cost and time saving for our industry. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic Review from User Profile AT Aiman T. PhD Candidate Civil Engineering Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 3/24/2026 "Robust Solver for Impact Simulations with a Bit of Room for Improvement" 4/5 What do you like best about Ansys LS-DYNA? I am actively using Ansys LS-DYNA for crashworthiness simulations and impact analysis. It's great for situations when I need to see how materials behave under extreme loads or high-speed conditions. The solver is incredibly robust, handling large deformations and complex contact scenarios without crashing. Additionally, I like the wide range of material models, which gives me options to simulate different mechanical behaviors for composites and metals. The initial setup was easy enough, and installing the solver itself was pretty straightforward. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Ansys LS-DYNA? It takes a while to get comfortable with key word structure and the settings. Very rarely the pre processing can feel a bit clunky too. Better documentation with examples ranging from simple to complex would definitely be of big help. I would like to see more practical tutorials that walk through from start to finish. Besides that I think it would be better if the pre process has better default settings so that I don't have to tweak so many small things to get the stable run. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Ansys LS-DYNA solving and how is that benefiting you? I use Ansys LS-DYNA for crashworthiness simulations and impact analysis. It helps me understand how a design will hold up in real crash or drop events and test material behavior under extreme loads or high-speed conditions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite JB John B. Engineering Director Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 8/6/2025 "Oasys Suite - the complete package" 5/5 What do you like best about Ansys LS-DYNA? While the Dyna code has evolved, Oasys suite has remained concise and logical to use. It provides Vectayn Ltd the confidence to build stable models and checking prior to submitting the job. Also, it is now easy access to all packages within the suite which provides an all round suite. The Oasys Team listen to our requests and suggestions, incorporating them into next releases. As expectations of analysis have changed, from a bolt on to vehicle programmes to a central process in design development, Oasys Suite has continued to evolve to allow analysts to work efficiently. It is clear that the development team have input from engineers working on live programmes and experiencing what users actually need. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Ansys LS-DYNA? No much to be honest. Prices are creeping up and the license term isn't as flexible as once was. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Ansys LS-DYNA solving and how is that benefiting you? The advancements in Reporter to incorporate the legal crash protocols. Sometimes simple things are most effective. Recently we learnt about Panel positioning in Primer. Switches for visibility of particles in airbag analyses The new feature allowing users to state the file size they need when outputting animations will save us time when preparing results for clients Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic Review from User Profile ![TUNCAY K.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "TUNCAY K.") TK TUNCAY K. R&D Manager Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 12/21/2022 "Explicit dynamics analysis" 5/5 What do you like best about Ansys LS-DYNA? I have used Mechanical APDL interface of Ansys and LS-Dyna as a solution engine. I could obtain precise results from very difficult non linear dynamic FEA models. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Ansys LS-DYNA? I could not find implicit dynamics settings for slow metal forming simulations. I spent really long simulation time for the results from explicit dynamics analysis. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Ansys LS-DYNA solving and how is that benefiting you? I tried to solve mostly roll bending of metal plates into circular geometry, it was impossible without LS-Dyna solver. Because I and other simulation engineers had tried Autodyn and failed Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Kubilay .](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Kubilay .") K Kubilay . Project Engineer Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 1/11/2023 "Great Analysis Program" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Ansys LS-DYNA? Ansys is a great program for mechanical analysis.Especially meshing and force capabilities is very great and there are a lot of options. Besides, UX is very useful for new users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Ansys LS-DYNA? Basic modelling tools and material library need to improve Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Ansys LS-DYNA solving and how is that benefiting you? As a engineer I need a lot of mechanical performance calculations.So it would help about to solving advanced engineering problems Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 1/16/2023 Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Hritesh K.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Hritesh K.") HK Hritesh K. Graduate Engineer Trainee (New Initiatives Group) Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 8/26/2022 "A powerful Explicit solver with easy to use keywords and commands" 4/5 What do you like best about Ansys LS-DYNA? LS-Prepost which is open source helps you to get used to the software's interface without having a licence and once you have confidence on using one can get a license. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Ansys LS-DYNA? The user interface needs to be updated frequently, when compared to the other ansys analysis tools the UI in LS-DYNA looks outdated and sometimes LS-Prepost hangs and the entire work will be gone. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Ansys LS-DYNA solving and how is that benefiting you? ANSYS LS-DYNA is an analysis software which solves physics problems numerically by using the concept of finite elements. It is mostly popular for dynamic problems as it uses explicit solver by default. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Harish S.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Harish S.") HS Harish S. Student Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 10/15/2022 "excellent experience" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Ansys LS-DYNA? Ansys LS-DYNA allows you to simulate and analyse various complex problems it has easy to use interface with so much detailing wich makes it easier for the user to do enhanced problems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Ansys LS-DYNA? i couldn't say anything wrong with the software because it was so comforting to use, but the user interface could be much more efficient and simplistic design making it even more comfortable for the user. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Ansys LS-DYNA solving and how is that benefiting you? Ansys LS-DYNA solves complex crash analysis problems for engineers. It is used to simulate the 3D Model designed for understanding its characteristics which when crashed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Shivnandan K.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Shivnandan K.") SK Shivnandan K. Tools Design Engineer Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 6/26/2022 "A good tool for early graduates to learn and powerful Crash Simulation Tool" 5/5 What do you like best about Ansys LS-DYNA? The best thing about Ls-Dyna as a solver and modeller is that you can use any other CAE modelling software whichever may be available to you or according to your ease. Solver Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Ansys LS-DYNA? If basic modelling tools can be improved it would be great. I understand that it is meant to be used as a solver but it would encourage students to try it at the very least because there is not a lot of online content available. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Ansys LS-DYNA: One of the best solvers but I would recommend using Hypermesh for modelling purpose from my personal experience. It allows you multiple tools to make your work easier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Ansys LS-DYNA solving and how is that benefiting you? We were working with another team to develop better safety standards for Formula Student vehicles. The idea was to understand and develop an impact attenuator used in Formula Student vehicles. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![S.HARISH S.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "S.HARISH S.") SS S.HARISH S. Student Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 8/31/2022 "Very good experience" 5/5 What do you like best about Ansys LS-DYNA? I did my final year thesis in Ansys LS-Dyna. Ansys was a user friendly software and every tool was easily accessible. The large variety of analysis tools have us upperhand in our project. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Ansys LS-DYNA? Since I had a very good experience I would say there is nothing really to improve from my point of view. The user interface could be much better when compared to other softwares Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Ansys LS-DYNA solving and how is that benefiting you? For my final year thesis I did crash simulation of a bumper it was very helpfull, And that made me productive now, I could easily simulate any crash now using ansys Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ## Questions about Ansys LS-DYNA? 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