Select the Best Optimization or Simulation Product for Your Needs

Which Solver product is best for me?

We offer a comprehensive suite of tools for allocating resources via optimization, analyzing risk via Monte Carlo simulation, and integrating both to find robust optimal decisions.  Here's a product overview if your main focus is optimization:

All our Excel products are upward compatible from the Solver in Excel; see a detailed comparison.  Here's a product overview if your main focus is simulation:

For building models inside Excel, Risk Solver Platform is our "super-product" for both optimization and simulation, offering far more than any competitive product.  But if RSP is more than you need right now, you can start with one of its subsets, and upgrade easily later to gain more power and flexibility; see a detailed comparison.

For building models outside Excel in a programming language, Solver Platform SDK is our comprehensive tool for both optimization and simulation; it includes everything except Risk Solver Platform's automatic model analysis, transformation, automatic differentiation, and SOCP Barrier and Interval Global Solver Engines.

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What's a Platform?  Our eight optional large-scale Solver Engines "plug in" to any of our Platform products: Risk Solver Platform, Premium Solver Platform, and Solver Platform SDK.  In contrast, Risk Solver, Premium Solver, and Risk Solver Premium aren't upgradeable with large-scale Solver Engines; but you can upgrade from any of them to Risk Solver Platform, with full compatibility for your models and macros.

Tools for Optimization:

Risk Solver Platform is an integrated superset of Premium Solver Platform and Risk Solver with best-of-breed simulation, best-of-breed optimization, and new stochastic programming and robust optimization capabilities you can't get anywhere else.

Premium Solver Platform, our premier tool for conventional optimization, uses new PSI Technology to automatically analyze and transform your Excel model. It solves every type and size of problem, using built-in and plug-in Solver Engines.

Premium Solver, our basic upgrade for the Excel Solver, solves up to 10X larger problems at much higher speed, and solves new kinds of problems with our Evolutionary Solver.

Tools for Simulation:

Risk Solver Platform is an integrated superset of Premium Solver Platform and Risk Solver with best-of-breed simulation, best-of-breed optimization, and new stochastic programming and robust optimization capabilities you can't get anywhere else.

Risk Solver Premium integrates all the features of Premium Solver and Risk Solver, with far superior optimization and higher performance, easier to use simulation, for about the same price as competitive products for Monte Carlo simulation.

Risk Solver is the easiest and fastest tool available for risk analysis of your Excel models, using Monte Carlo simulation. Evaluate thousands of scenarios in seconds, and see instantly updated charts and statistics, each time you ask "what if".

Software Developer Tools:

Solver Platform SDK makes it easy to solve any type or size of optimization problem in your Visual Basic, VB.NET, C/C++, C#, Java, or MATLAB program. And it's easy to deploy your application with our flexible licensing for software vendors and corporate developers.