Scilab 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Scilab

4.3

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Pricing

Pricing available upon request

About Scilab

Scilab is a scientific computation platform designed to help professionals across aerospace, education, meteorology, metallurgy, pharmaceutical, and research industries. It allows users to conduct tests on algorithms and perform numerical computation processes across applications.

It offers a variety of features such as data visualization, profiling, algorithm development, debugging, animation and more. It facilitates integration with third-party applications, allowing professionals to connect the platform with other languages or use Scilab as a calculation engine across external Python, C, C++ and Java applications.

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Scilab Pricing and Plans

Starting price: Pricing available upon request

Free Trial

Free Version

Scilab Features

Popular features found in Statistical Analysis
Data Clustering
Data Connectors
Forecasting
Multivariate Analysis
Predictive Analytics
Regression Analysis
Search/Filter
Statistical Process Control
Statistical Simulation
Survival Analysis
Time Series Analysis
Visual Analytics
More features of Scilab
Activity Dashboard
Customization
Data Import/Export
Data Transformation
Data Visualization
Multiple Scoring Models
Real-Time Data
Statistical Analysis

Scilab User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.3

Ratings Breakdown

45%

10%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.3

Value for money

4.7

Customer support

4.1

Functionality

4.3

AHMAD A.

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Information Technology and Services

Self-Employed

Used weekly for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed November 2023

A Free and Open-Source Alternative to MATLAB

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Value for money

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Pros:

Scilab proves to be a tool, due to its extensive collection of functions that cater to projects of any scale. Moreover the fact that Scilab is freely available as an open source software makes it accessible, to a range of users.

Cons:

Scilab may not be the user friendly, at first. Might require a bit of prior instruction to navigate. However this is a concern that can easily be overcome with some practice.

Reasons for switching to Scilab

The student edition of MATLAB typically has a price around 100 Euros.

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Reviewer

E-Learning

501-1000 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed March 2022

Perfect software to solve complex problems

It is very useful for engineering students to solve critical mathematical problems. Also it is very helpful to plot a graphs of various equations. So overall it is perfect open source tool.

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Pros:

1. It is open source free hence any one can use Scilab. 2. User can able to perform complex calculations of maths very easily and quickly using programming. 3. User can able to plot a graph or simulate a complex equation to analyse it's nature. 4. It is very useful in ‎designing various types control systems and analyze it's behaviour under different conditions. 5. It is used to solve mathematical, scientific, engineering, geometrical problems very efficiently. 6. It is very light weight so it can also run on low end pc's.

Cons:

No any cons experienced while using but sometimes it takes time to fully load software.

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Reviewer

Research

11-50 employees

Used weekly for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed August 2022

Not a Matlab alternative

It was my first lab software ever, even before MATLAB. For educational purpose, Scilab served really well in helping me to get the first sense of scientific coding. Some might say that Scilab is a diluted version of MATLAB but in my opinion, each software has its own specificity. Thank you a lot for being a part of my youth.

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Pros:

Free access and open source program for everyone. A fantastic open source tool for beginners academic researches. You have a large variety of tool boxes to use and to develop, beside learning basic scientific and programming notion such as arrays, matrixes, etc.

Cons:

Lack of help from the community and customer services. Poor graphical design.

Arshad A.

Verified reviewer

Higher Education

501-1000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed October 2021

Scilab

Scilab is a good tool to carryout evaluation and simple code development.

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Pros:

Scilab offers a lot of fucntions to evaluate and simulate data in the programmed manner. It data visualization is good.

Cons:

It do not have as many features as Matlab or wolfarm mathematica have. Also its a bit hard to use.

Linos S.

Verified reviewer

Higher Education

501-1000 employees

Used monthly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed January 2019

Lightweight, powerful, but not compatible with MATLAB

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Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

Scilab is a great tool for statistics, communications, satellite orbits, networking, algorithm complexity, and virtually all fields of academics and engineering. Both Scilab itself and its plugins (called modules) are cross-platform, with ready-made packages for Windows, macOS, the most popular Linux distros, and BSD. It is free and open-source, distributed under GPLv2 and previously CeCILL. The main application is well-written, using as little resources as possible, but stays as powerful as any alternative. The community is not large, but it is a serious one, users and programmers constantly working in making Scilab the optimal application of its kind.

Cons:

Let's not lie; scientist and engineers use MATLAB a lot. Scilab, unfortunately, is not remotely compatible with MATLAB. As long as Scilab is not the most popular of its kind, compatibility will always be an issue. That being said, skill transfer is not a problem. Apart from that, some new modules might be heavier on your computer than they should, but a serious community makes sure they are improved with a rapid pace.

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Mechanical or Industrial Engineering

51-200 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

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Reviewed June 2020

Amazing product!

trying to run my simulations for my current research project

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Pros:

I can use this free of cost since its opensource and it delivers all the features in matlab for free! it runs fast and the parallel processing is amazing

Cons:

the fact that its sometimes slow and it consumes a lot of memory. It hangs at times which is bad as well but for short codes its ok

Enrique M.

Verified reviewer

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed March 2018

Use this software in my studies of Computer Engineering with free software

It has many benefits but the most outstanding is its potential in terms of what we can develop with it and the fact that it is free

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Pros:

This software allows to make scientific and mathematical calculations of physics and engineering, it serves for the simulation of industrial control processes and it is also free

Cons:

It can be said that there are few disadvantages we can mention the language in which it was made English and French must only have a previous instruction to handle it is not very instuitive

Ebert B.

Verified reviewer

Higher Education

Used monthly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed July 2018

Scilab is a powerful tools for maths calculating. It is very easy to use.

This software allow one to do very complicated maths calculate.

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Pros:

I do most like to Scilab its environment for editing maths problems. Another excellent feature is that Scilab is an open and free source software, what allow one to customise to a huge amount of problems.

Cons:

I do like least is that Scilab is not easy to learn, because it works by commands, and some people do not like to use commands. However, Scilab has a set of icons for modelling systems, which help one to model systems.

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Reviewer

Aviation & Aerospace

5001-10000 employees

Used monthly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed December 2019

Scilab performance

Scilab is good to solve mathematical problems. If you get used to Scilab, you can perform various engineering work.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

Good performance for open source program as mathematical solver. Scialab has various toolbox options to use specific area.

Cons:

Precision of solver can be improved. Autosave functionality is not dependable. Signal operations like attaching two signals is hard to implement. It has its own style with xcos, so it is not easy to get used to it.

Saurav C.

Verified reviewer

Environmental Services

5001-10000 employees

Used monthly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed April 2020

Good for statistical and data analysis

I used Scilab to perform a bunch of statistical analysis for the geographical data I was working with

Ratings Breakdown

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Functionality

Pros:

Scilab is very similar to Matlab but it does not have a lot of in built functions that Matlab has. It gives me the flexibility to create functions and if you prefer to build your own functions you will like Scilab over Matlab

Cons:

I did Like the figures that I was able to create with Matlab compared to the figures created in Scotland.

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