NI Multisim Reviews & Product Details

Multisim is industry standard SPICE simulation and circuit design software for analog, digital, and power electronics in education and research. Multisim integrates industry standard SPICE simulation with an interactive schematic environment to instantly visualize and analyze electronic circuit behavior. Multisim has an intuitive interface that helps educators reinforce circuit theory and improve retention of theory throughout engineering curriculum. Researchers and designers use Multisim to reduce PCB prototype iterations and save development costs by adding powerful circuit simulation and analyses to the design flow.

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German, English

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Best-of-Breed

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Pricing

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Multisim™ Base

1,869.00

Multisim™ Power Pro

4,838.00

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Last updated: Nov 04, 2026

What is NI Multisim, and what problem is it built to solve?

NI Multisim is used to design and simulate electronic circuits before building them in hardware. It helps users analyze circuit behavior and catch design issues virtually, which is useful for engineering work and education.

What languages does NI Multisim support?

NI Multisim supports 2 languages: English and German.

What company sizes and industries is NI Multisim the best fit for?

NI Multisim’s strongest fit is among small businesses and mid-market teams, with use also appearing in larger organizations. Electrical and electronics work and higher education stand out among the industries represented.

Small businesses: The most represented company-size segment.
Mid-market: Also well represented among circuit design and simulation users.
Electrical and electronic manufacturing: A prominent industry use case.
Higher education: Users apply it to coursework, lab demonstrations, and circuit learning.

What customer support options does NI Multisim provide, and how do users find the overall support experience?

NI Multisim’s support experience comes across as adequate, though it is not consistently a standout part of using the product. Built-in or online documentation can help with troubleshooting, but error messages may not always give enough detail to make problems easy to diagnose.

What features or capabilities could make NI Multisim even more useful?

NI Multisim could be more useful with broader component coverage and clearer guidance when something goes wrong. The most relevant improvements are:

Expand and update component libraries, particularly for microcontrollers, sensors, and power electronics.
Make error messages and debugging tools more informative so users can identify circuit problems faster.
Refresh the interface and make navigation and common workflows easier to learn.

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Wafa M.

Student

Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

4/25/2026

"User-Friendly Interface and Powerful Circuit Simulation Tools"

4/5

What do you like best about NI Multisim?

What I like most about NI Multisim is its user-friendly interface and its powerful simulation tools. It makes designing and testing electronic circuits much easier because I can build circuits virtually, analyze their behavior in real time, and troubleshoot errors before implementing anything in hardware. I also appreciate the wide range of built-in components and instruments, since they save time and support learning while improving overall productivity. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about NI Multisim?

One thing I dislike about NI Multisim is that some of its advanced features can feel limited compared with professional industry tools, particularly when working on highly complex circuit designs. It can also be fairly resource-intensive at times, which leads to slower performance on less powerful computers. Additionally, some component libraries don’t always include the exact parts I need, so I sometimes have to do extra customization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is NI Multisim solving and how is that benefiting you?

NI Multisim helps me design and test circuits without needing physical components for every experiment. It lets me simulate circuits safely, quickly, and at a lower cost, which helps reduce mistakes before I build real hardware. For me, this means I save time, gain a clearer understanding of circuit behavior, and can complete projects and assignments more efficiently. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Mitali K.

Editor

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

1/13/2022

"A great online resource for intuitive lab simulations"

4.5/5

What do you like best about NI Multisim?

Multisim syncs all your projects. You can access them from wherever you log in. I can also find a lot of projects and circuits already published publicly by the community. I find this very useful. The features are of course completely resourceful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about NI Multisim?

Multisim does not show a graphical simulation of working circuits which is sometimes a setback. Other than that, it covers majority of the circuits and simulations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering NI Multisim:

The main feature of NI Multisim is how it backs up all your projects and provides online access from any device. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is NI Multisim solving and how is that benefiting you?

This time of pandemic has hampered laboratory work to a large extent. NI Multisim has helped me throughout my course to still have an intuitive and quantitative idea of what's going on in many circuits. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rajesh G.

IXL Application Engineer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

4/2/2022

"Virtual Hardware"

4/5

What do you like best about NI Multisim?

It is the best software in designing the any type of circuits which will provides the ideal results Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about NI Multisim?

Here we are not able to find the error what type of error it is that's the only thing I dislike Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sainathan I.

Software Engineer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

3/20/2021

"Best for Designing Basic and Complex Digital as well as Power Circuits for Control"

4.5/5

What do you like best about NI Multisim?

The best thing about NI Multisim is its simplicity, the way it's designed to cater to electronics engineers and help them simulate some of the basic as well as complex circuits. For example, I personally used it in college a lot for simulating my projects. I had designed an instrumentation amplifier and was able to demonstrate its functionality to my professors at college through Multisim even before creating the circuit on PCB. Anyone with just basic knowledge of electronics can easily use Multisim right away, and the library is also enriched specifically for low power electronic circuits. The ICs are also available if we have a good Digital Design to be made. I have found it useful to explain to the engineers at my current organization about the working of some projects we are currently building. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about NI Multisim?

We cannot use NI Multisim for heavy power circuits since its library does not have certain power components in it such as Power MOSFET, Power SCR, etc. Otherwise, everything else is good. I faced some issues when I was creating a circuit of Multistage Power Amplifiers, but then it was solved because I used Multisim Documentation and Help which was available online and also in the Software. I think some parts of the software, such as libraries having power components, can also be updated with the latest power components available in the market. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering NI Multisim:

I would like to recommend NI Multisim to people who are freshers as well as industry professionals and also to electronics DIY enthusiasts who want to build and simulate some really good and amazing circuits and want to have accurate results while prototyping. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is NI Multisim solving and how is that benefiting you?

I am an Electronics and Telecommunication engineer and I happen to simulate circuits very often so I use Multisim every time. The Analysis options which Multisim provides for analyzing the waveforms and sweep analysis is very good and is always helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Muhammad T.

Lab Engineer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

3/18/2021

"NI Multisim Review"

5/5

What do you like best about NI Multisim?

Circuit Designing analyzing and verifying results. It is also helpful in teaching circuits. It is much much better than proteus. It's results are very much close to real world, if I use right components. I have solved Analog to digital and digital to Analog Converter using Multisim. It is very helpful in solving logics and algorithms. I have solved 5 bit Karnaugh map on multisim using logic converter tool. Logic converter tool gave me a an equation, which I used in making logic of my obstacle avoiding robot. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about NI Multisim?

I don't find many of the components, like microcontrollers and Arduino and other electronic instruments and ICs. Please include as much as microcontrollers and Arduinos as you can. It doesn't have arduino and sensor library. I can't test or verify sensor results using multisim tool. It is a suggestion, please make a library for arduino and related sensors like, ultrasonic sensor etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering NI Multisim:

It is a very good and user friendly simulation tool. It has lot of options. You can solve digital logics like Karnaugh map using this tool Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is NI Multisim solving and how is that benefiting you?

Many of the ICs and microcontrollers are not available. That is why, sometimes I have to use other simulation tools like proteus. But many of the times, I do not satisfy with the results of proteus, proteus always gives ideal results. There are lot of benefits of NI Multisim, I found, it is very close to real world. Simulation results are very helpful in implementation of circuits and analysis. When I was in undergrad, I successfully tested ADC and DAC using Multisim. Based on the results of the simulation, I successfully implemented the circuit on vero-borad. And I got A grade in LICA (Linear Integrated and Circuit Analysis) subject. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sigurður .

Thescer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

Originally submitted 11/9/2021

"love it"

5/5

What do you like best about NI Multisim?

i like that i can milusation and drawing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about NI Multisim?

the foodprint library in ultaboard and it can not talk to oder file. and it exspansive Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Shabbir P.

Senior Software Engineer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

1/18/2021

"Multisim the best circuit simulator of all"

5/5

What do you like best about NI Multisim?

Circuit simulations of almost all types. In built AC/DC sweep and analyser. Realtime waveform generated. Frequency response plotter. All lab instruments available in virtual form. Digital analysis made handy and circuit designing made fun and handy for expert as well as beginners level. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about NI Multisim?

Everything has some shortcomings in case of Multisim it's the not so friendly error messages and debugger buffer sometimes. Also circuit editing not possible when simulation is running. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering NI Multisim:

Definitely a good approach for beginners in solving complex problems and expertise level of design for daily barriers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is NI Multisim solving and how is that benefiting you?

All types of circuit designing including analog, digital, power, VLSI, logical etc. Realtime simulations on amplifier and digital logical circuit designing. Obtaining waveforms of generators designed and Power devices. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

THARUN C.

Student

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

4/23/2021

"Good Experience !!"

4/5

What do you like best about NI Multisim?

The ability to design with the help of the tool. It is very straightforward and user-friendly. These factors have enabled our teachers to recommend this product for use by the students of our college Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about NI Multisim?

The UI/UX is very outdated. It feels like we are using an application from 20 years prior . It is a very functional software but it won't hurt to make it look from this millennium Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering NI Multisim:

It is a good software for students in college as it is easy to use and free. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is NI Multisim solving and how is that benefiting you?

Our problems are usually simulation for college projects where we simulate BJT and MOSFET to understand their performance characteristics Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Medical Devices

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

9/6/2021

"Simulation platform where you can visualise practical hardware"

4/5

What do you like best about NI Multisim?

We can select actual market components like their parasitic parameters and analyse behaviour Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about NI Multisim?

They can still improve the software in terms of user friendly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sana F.

Executive PA to the Director

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

3/22/2021

"Exploration with Simulation-Driven Instruments."

5/5

What do you like best about NI Multisim?

It has ability to uphold theory with circuit simulation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about NI Multisim?

I don't find many of the components like microcontroller etc, and it should be totally free for students. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering NI Multisim:

I would really like to recommend this software to others on behalf of my experience Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is NI Multisim solving and how is that benefiting you?

The Multisim design approach helps you save prototype iterations and optimize printed circuit board (PCB) designs earlier in the process. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.