--- title: SimScale Reviews meta_title: 'SimScale Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 284 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how SimScale works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.6 review_count: 284 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-08-07' parent_category: name: CAD & PLM url: https://www.g2.com/categories/cad-plm --- # SimScale Reviews **Vendor:** SimScale GmbH **Category:** [Simulation & CAE Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/simulation-cae) **Average Rating:** 4.6/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 284 ## About SimScale SimScale is a leading cloud-native CAE platform that provides access to CFD, FEA, electromagnetics and thermodynamics simulation capabilities 100% via a standard web browser. No hardware, installation or licenses required. Try the free Community plan or request a free trial for the Professional account at https://www.simscale.com/ ## SimScale Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users find SimScale to be **easy to use** , benefiting from intuitive interfaces and excellent support for collaboration. (34 reviews) - Users value the **quick and knowledgeable customer support** from SimScale, making the software experience exceptional. (31 reviews) - Users value the **excellent technical support** of SimScale, enhancing their simulation experience with timely assistance and guidance. (26 reviews) - Users value the **online accessibility** of SimScale, enabling efficient simulations without consuming local computer resources. (19 reviews) - Users benefit from **efficiency improvements** in SimScale, enabling fast iterations and concurrent simulations effortlessly in the cloud. (14 reviews) - Ease of Learning (9 reviews) - Affordable (8 reviews) - Time Saving (8 reviews) - Meshing Techniques (7 reviews) - Integrations (6 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users are frustrated with the **slow simulation process** and lengthy mesh generation, impacting their productivity and workflow. (8 reviews) - Users experience **meshing issues** leading to longer run times and intuitive challenges with file management in SimScale. (7 reviews) - Users find the **learning curve steep** , making setup confusing for beginners despite available tutorials and resources. (5 reviews) - Users report that the **UX improvement** of SimScale is hindered by clunky controls and unintuitive editing features. (4 reviews) - Users find the **complex modeling** process cumbersome, often needing extensive geometry simplifications and lacking clear update communication. (3 reviews) - Users find a **lack of features** in SimScale, impacting editing and post-processing capabilities for complex projects. (3 reviews) - Users find SimScale **not user-friendly** , facing challenges with its learning curve and complex CAD features. (3 reviews) - Time Consumption (3 reviews) - Users find the **complex geometry handling** to be difficult and limited, impacting simulation and post-processing capabilities. (2 reviews) - Limited Drawing Tools (2 reviews) ## SimScale Reviews ### 1. powerful and intuitive cloud-based FEA-tool with great support **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Christoph M. | Independent simulation engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 10, 2025 **What do you like best about SimScale?** SimScale combines an intuitive browser-based interface with the flexibility of a professional FEM solver. Onboarding was quick and easy, even coming from ANSYS, and the UI lets me focus on building solid engineering models instead of spending time on setup or IT infrastructure. The biggest upsides for me (as a freshly started engineering service provider) are the excellent technical support (fast, personal, and very helpful), the fact that I don’t need to invest in expensive hardware or server setups, and the fair pricing. For everyday structural simulations (static, harmonic, dynamic, thermomechanical) it delivers everything I need. The constant updates and user-requested features are also a strong plus, showing that the platform evolves fast according to the needs of their users. **What do you dislike about SimScale?** Some clients of mine expect me to use “big-name” software just for the sake of it, which is not a technical issue but can be a practical one as a freelancer. Under the standard mechanical FEA license, SimScale is not yet at the same level of solver robustness and feature depth as flagship tools like ANSYS. Very specialized modelling (e.g. advanced composites, multiphysics, or extreme nonlinear / dynamic cases) can be tricky or even impossible, and the solver stability can occasionally be an issue on more demanding setups. While the platform is improving rapidly and a new MARC solver is promising (but rather costly), for very niche requirements you may still need additional (and much more expensive) tools. **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** SimScale eliminates the need for expensive local hardware and IT setups, which is a huge benefit as an independent engineering office. I can run professional simulations directly in the browser on a laptop, scale computing resources as needed, and focus on the actual engineering instead of infrastructure. The platform also shortens the learning curve thanks to its intuitive UI, so I can get models up and running quickly. Combined with responsive technical support, this allows me to deliver reliable simulation results without the overhead of traditional FEM software. From a business perspective, the pricing and flexibility make it possible for me to offer simulation services at a competitive rate, while still accessing professional-grade tools. ### 2. SimScale: Anything, anywhere, anytime, for any duration of time. GoGet of CFD world. **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Oksana T. | Research & Development Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 11, 2024 **What do you like best about SimScale?** No data loss so far. No crashes. No fatal errors. Do not have to worry about simulation stopping if I send my computer to hibernate, or if I have to restart it. Great graphical user interface. Be it CAD editor, mesh creation, or results post-processing. And if I have to do something more complicated, I can just export/download the results to my PC and look at them in ParaView. CFD calculations being done in OpenFOAM (an open-source, well-known CFD software) is appreciated. Great responsive support team. It's almost like talking directly to developers of SimScale. I can use as many resources as I want. The only problem is when I run out of resources - because that can be costly for whoever is paying for my subscription. I generally import CAD files in STP file format, but SimScale has a very good compatibility with a wide range of file formats. Screenshots up to around 20M pixels (probably depends on the RAM you have available on your PC?) can be taken, and they are very lightweight - less than 1MB each. **What do you dislike about SimScale?** Occasional glitches with screenshot taking. Took a screenshot? Download it (and make sure it's not just an empty rectangle), because if SimScale forgets the "view" for the simulation run, it will forget all the screenshots. Occasional glitches with CAD editing - if an operation has a problem, I cannot interrupt the operation, and I have to wait for operation to time out - which can take a while. But don't worry about it, CAD editor is being actively developed, developers are aware of the issue, so this problem will be solved. In two months™? Periodic boundary condition can be done for translational periodicity, but not for rotational one. Very annoying! It could have reduced computational usage by a factor of 2, or 4, or 12, depending on geometry, if periodic boundary condition just worked. [I hope SimScale people are reading the review. Because I am sure that OpenFOAM has this feature, but SimScale for whatever reason does not have it, yet] Predictions of running time and computing resource usage are unreliable. The software responsible for that probably needs to take more factors into account - even with similar geometries, meshing can take 40min for one case and 80min for another (and prediction is probably 15min? to be fair, my geometries are inordinately complex). **What problems is SimScale solving and how is that benefiting you?** SimScale is predicting airflow patterns, and relationship between airflow rate and pressure drop. Which provides opportunity to swiftly try out a few dozens of prototypes without even trying to manufacture them. Sure, once "the best" prototype(s) are selected based on SimScale modelling, they will need to be actually manufactured and tested to see whether their performance is anywhere near expected. 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