SciPy Alternatives

SciPy is described as 'Collection of mathematical algorithms and convenience functions built on NumPy. It adds significant power to Python by providing the user with high-level commands and classes for manipulating and visualizing data' and is a popular numerical computation software in the development category. There are more than 25 alternatives to SciPy for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Web-based and Python apps. The best SciPy alternative is R (programming language), which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like SciPy are MATLAB, SageMath, Julia and Spyder.

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  1. wxMaxima icon
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    wxMaxima is a document based interface for the computer algebra system Maxima. wxMaxima provides menus and dialogs for many common maxima commands, autocompletion, inline plots and simple animations.

    41 wxMaxima alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
     
  2. pandas icon
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    Flexible and powerful data analysis / manipulation library for Python, providing labeled data structures similar to R data.frame objects, statistical functions, and much more.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Python
     
  3. WinPython icon
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    The easiest way to run Python, Spyder with SciPy and friends out of the box on any Windows PC, without installing anything!.

    15 WinPython alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
     
  4. Polars icon
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    Polars is a highly performant DataFrame library for manipulating structured data. The core is written in Rust, but the library is also available in Python. Its key features are:

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Python
     
  5. Enthought icon
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    The Enthought Python Distribution provides scientists with a comprehensive set of tools to perform rigorous data analysis and visualization. Python, distinguished by its flexibility, coherence, and ease-of-use, is rapidly becoming the programming language of choice for...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  6. CuPy icon
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    CuPy is an open-source array library for GPU-accelerated computing with Python. CuPy utilizes CUDA Toolkit libraries including cuBLAS, cuRAND, cuSOLVER, cuSPARSE, cuFFT, cuDNN and NCCL to make full use of the GPU architecture.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Python
    • Mac
    • BSD
     
  7. Magma icon
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    A software package designed to solve computationally hard problems in algebra, number theory, geometry and combinatorics.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  8. Collimator icon
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    Collimator is a modeling and simulation platform for engineers to design and test complex, mission critical systems in a way that is reliable, secure, fast and intuitive.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  9. OpenModelica icon
     18 likes

    OpenModelica – A Free Modelica Environment! OpenModelica is an open-source Modelica-based modeling and simulation environment intended for industrial and academic usage. Its long-term development is supported by a non-profit organization – the Open Source Modelica Consortium (OS.

    48 OpenModelica alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  10. Chapel icon
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    Chapel is a programming language designed for productive parallel computing at scale.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
  11. NumeRe icon
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    Open source framework for numerical computations and advanced statistical analysis, featuring nonlinear curve fitting, ODE solving, 1D/2D publication-quality visualization, Fourier and wavelet transforms, intuitive syntax, and namespace-based code organization for research.

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    • Windows
     
  12. ScicosLab icon
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    ScicosLab is a software package providing a multi-platform environment for scientific computation. It is based on the official Scilab 4.x (BUILD4) distribution, and includes the modeling and simulation tool Scicos and a number of other toolboxes.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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