Free Simulink Alternatives

The best free alternative to Simulink is Circuit JS, which is also Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to Simulink and many of them is free so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free alternatives to Simulink are Xcos, SimulIDE, Ktechlab and OpenModelica.

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  1. Scicos icon
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    Scicos is a graphical dynamical system modeler and simulator developed in the Metalau project at INRIA, Paris-Rocquencourt center. With Scicos, user can create block diagrams to model and simulate the dynamics of hybrid dynamical systems and compile models into executable code.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  2. Kepler icon
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    Kepler is a free open-source software system for designing, executing, reusing, evolving, archiving, and sharing scientific workflows. Kepler's facilities provide process and data monitoring, provenance information, and high-speed data movement.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  3. BMS icon
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    Block model simulator for python BMS is a block model time simulator: it computes time values of time functions (called variables) linked by blocks which represent equations and behaviors between them.

    8 BMS alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Python
     
  4. Hopsan icon
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    Hopsan is an open-source multi-domain system simulation tool developed at the division of Fluid and Mechatronic Systems at Linköping University University.

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Ubuntu
    • Debian
     
  5. Pictorus icon
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    Pictorus is a visual software development platform, designed from the ground up for modern engineers. Design and deploy powerful, reliable software from any browser to hardware instantly. Block diagrams are continuously re-compiled into binary executables for your target...

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
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    Comments about Pictorus as an Alternative to Simulink
    cws84
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    I like Pictorus as an alternative to Simulink because it's easier to use, tightly integrates with my hardware, and is free for non-commercial users!

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    • Pictorus is Free Personal and ProprietarySimulink is Paid and Proprietary
  6. Caedium icon
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    Caedium (formerly SymLab) and its add-ons combine to form an easy-to-use Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) software system to help you assess the performance of your 3D models.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  7. Minsky icon
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    Minsky enables the simulation of models (particularly from economics) defined in terms of coupled ordinary differential equations. The models are defined using a drawing canvas (rather like VisSim), and a double entry bookkeeping system known as a Godley table.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  8. Altair Activate software is an open & flexible tool for rapidly modeling and simulating products as multi-disciplinary systems in the form of 1D models (expressed as signal-based or physical block diagrams), optionally coupled to 3D models.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    Comments about Altair Activate as an Alternative to Simulink
    Guest
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    Altair Activate is able to import .mdl and .slx files developed at simulink, this feature help to migrate from simulink to Activate. For now I believe this is the first software able to do that.

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    rodrigorpgsc
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    Is able to import simulink models

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Altair Activate is Free and ProprietarySimulink is Paid and Proprietary
  9. Insight Maker icon
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    Explore powerful simulation algorithms for System Dynamics and Agent Based Modeling in a truly cohesive environment. Use System Dynamics to gain insights into your system. Use Agent Based Modeling to granularly break apart the details.

    6 Insight Maker alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  10. EMSO simulator is an equation-oriented process simulator with a graphical interface for modeling complex dynamic or steady-state processes. It is CAPE-OPEN compliant. EMSO stands for Environment for Modeling, Simulation, and Optimization.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  11. Altair Embed icon
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    Altair Embed™ software is a proven tool for developing embedded systems, by automatically generating code from block diagram models and transferring to popular controller hardware.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  12. Aim of this project is bring classical control theory and signal processing to your projects. You can develop digital circuit in z-domain, simulate it and generate the portable c code. You can easily use it even on embedded projects because there is no single dependency, there...

    5 Linky Simulator alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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