| ADMB | David Fournier, ADMB Project | 1989 | 1990 | 13.1 | December 23, 2022 | Free | BSD 3-clause (aka new) | Automatic differentiation makes it well suited to complex minimization problems |
| Analytica | Lumina Decision Systems | 1982 (Demos) | | 4.6 | May 2015 | Free (Analytica Free 101), $995 (professional), $2795 (enterprise) | Proprietary | A numerical modeling environment with a declarative and visual programming language based on influence diagrams. |
| Ch | SoftIntegration | | 1 October 2001 | 7.5.1 | 2 December 2015 | $399 (commercial), $199 (academic), Free (student) | Proprietary | C/C++ based numerical computing and graphical plotting |
| DADiSP | DSP Development | 1984 | 1987 | 6.7 B02 | 17 January 2017 | $1995 (commercial), $129 (academic), Free (student) | Proprietary | Numeric computations for science and engineering featuring a spreadsheet like interface. |
| Dyalog APL | Dyalog Ltd. | 1981 | 1983 | 20.0 | 11 November 2025 | Not free (commercial), Free (non-commercial) | Proprietary | A modern dialect of APL, enhanced with features for functional and object-oriented programming. |
| Euler Math Toolbox | René Grothmann | 1987 | 1988 | 2022-02-10 | 10 February 2022 | Free | GPL | Also a computer algebra system through interface with Maxima |
| Fityk | Marcin Wojdyr | | 2002 | 1.3.1 | 19 December 2016 | $115 (1.x binaries), Free (source code and 0.x binaries) | GPL | interactive graphics, scriptable, specialized in curve fitting and peak fitting, 2D only |
| FlexPro | Weisang GmbH | n/a | 1991 | 2025 (14.0.8) | 6 October 2025 | Not free (commercial), Free (academic) | Proprietary | Dynamic, interactive 2D/3D diagrams, programmable, Python integration, VBA, high performances, multicore compatible, large data sets. |
| FreeMat | Samit Basu | | 2004 | 4.2 | 30 June 2013 | Free | GPL | Codeless interface to external C, C++, and Fortran code. Mostly compatible with MATLAB. |
| GAUSS | Aptech Systems | | 1984 | 21 | 8 December 2020 | Not free | Proprietary | |
| GNU Data Language | Marc Schellens | | 2004 | 1.0.2 | 15 January 2023 | Free | GPL | Aimed as a drop-in replacement for IDL/PV-WAVE |
| IBM SPSS Statistics | Norman H. Nie, Dale H. Bent, and C. Hadlai Hull | | 1968 | 23.0 | 3 March 2015 | Not free | Proprietary | Primarily for statistics |
| GNU MCSim | Frederic Y. Bois & Don Maszle | 1991 | 1993 | 6.0.0 | 24 February 2018 | Free | GPL | General simulation and Monte Carlo sampling software |
| GNU Octave | John W. Eaton | 1988 | 1993 | 7.3.0 | 2 November 2022 | Free | GPL | General numerical computing package with many extension modules. Syntax mostly compatible with MATLAB |
| IGOR Pro | WaveMetrics | 1986 | 1988 | 8.00 | May 22, 2018 | $995 (commercial) $225 upgrade, $499 (academic) $175 upgrade, $85 (student) | Proprietary | interactive graphics, programmable, 2D/3D, used for science and engineering, large data sets. |
| imc FAMOS | imc Test & Measurement | 1987 | 1988 | 2025 R2 | August 20, 2025 | Not free (commercial), Free (academic) | Proprietary | Solving differential equations, nonlinear approximations, Monte-Carlo calculations, engineering math, interactive plots, Python and R interface |
| J | Jsoftware | 1989 | 1990 | J9.5.1 | 20 December 2023 | Free | GPL | online access to: J Application Library (JAL) |
| Julia | Jeff Bezanson, Stefan Karpinski, Viral B. Shah, Alan Edelman | 2009 | 2012 | 1.12.3 | 15 December 2025 | Free | MIT License | A fast, high-level numerical computing language. |
| LabPlot | Stefan Gerlach, Alexander Semke, KDE | 2001 | 2003 | 2.11.1 | 16 July 2024 | Free | GPL-2.0-or-later | 2D plotting, suitable for creation of publication-ready plots but also for data visualization and exploration, data import from many formats(ASCII, binary, HDF5, FITS, JSON, etc.), export to vector and raster images, data analysis (nonlinear curve fitting in 2D, FFT, smoothing, integration and differentiation, etc.), digitizing of raster images, live data plotting, support for different CAS like Maxima, Octave, R, etc. |
| LabVIEW | National Instruments | 1985 | 1986 | 2016 | August 2016 | $1249 (commercial), $79.95 (student) | Proprietary | Graphical, and textual through formula nodes, mathscript and .m file scripts |
| Maple | Maplesoft | 1980 | 1982 | 2025.2 (13 November 2025; 5 months ago(2025-11-13)) [±] | 14 March 2019 | $2390 (commercial), $239 (personal), $99 (student) | Proprietary | Mainly a computer algebra system |
| Mathcad | Parametric Technology Corporation | 1985 | 1986 | 15.0; Prime 4.0 | 2 March 2015 | $1195 (commercial), $99 (student) | Proprietary | |
| Mathematica | Wolfram Research | 1986 | 1988 | 14.3.0 (August 5, 2025; 8 months ago(2025-08-05)) [±] | 13 December 2023 | Free (Raspberry Pi), Free , $3320 (commercial), $399 (personal), $75/year (student) | Proprietary | Also computer algebra system |
| MATLAB | MathWorks | late 1970s | 1984 | 9.12 (R2022a) | 15 March 2022 | $2150 (standard), $500 (education), $149 (home), $49 (student) | Proprietary | Numerical computation and simulation with extended 2D/3D visualization. Emphasis on vectorised processing. |
| Maxima | MIT Project MAC and Bill Schelter et al. | 1967 | 1982 | 5.47.0 | 31 May 2023 | Free | GPL | Mainly a computer algebra system |
| MLAB | Civilized Software, Inc. | 1970 (in SAIL), 1985 (in C) | 1972 (on DEC-10), 1988 (on PCs), 1993 (on MACs) | 2015 | 2015 | $2250 (standard), $50 (student) | Proprietary | Numerical and Statistical computation for Scientific Applications, e.g. Chemical Kinetics. ODE Solving and Curve-Fitting. Symbolic Differentiation, Survival Analysis, Cluster Analysis, 2D/3D Graphics. |
| Origin | OriginLab | | 1991 | 2019b | 24 April 2019 | $1095 (std.)/$1800 (Pro) $550 (std., academic) $850 (Pro, academic) $69/yr. (Pro, student) | Proprietary | Integrated data analysis graphing software for science and engineering. Flexible multi-layer graphing framework. 2D, 3D and statistical graph types. Built-in digitizing tool. Analysis with auto recalculation and report generation. Built-in scripting and programming languages. |
| Perl Data Language | Karl Glazebrook | 1996 | c. 1997 | 2.080 | 28 May 2022 | Free | Artistic License | Used for astrophysics, solar physics, oceanography, biophysics, and simulation. 2D plotting via PGPLOT, PLPlot bindings; 3D via GL. |
| PSPP | Ben Pfaff | 1990s | 1990s | 1.2.0 | 6 November 2018 | Free | GPL v.3 or later | FOSS statistics program, intended as an alternative to IBM SPSS Statistics. |
| R | R Foundation | 1997 | 1997 | 4.5.2 | 31 October 2025 | Free | GPL | Primarily for statistics, but there are many interfaces to open-source numerical software |
| SageMath | William Stein | | 2005 | 10.2 | 3 December 2023 | Free | GPL | Programmable, includes computer algebra, 2D+3D plotting. Interfaces to many open-source and proprietary software. Web based interface HTTP or HTTPS |
| SAS | Anthony Barr, James Goodnight | 1966 | 1972 | 10.2 | 10 July 2014 | Not free | Proprietary | Mainly for statistics |
| SequenceL | Texas Multicore Technologies | 1989 | 2012 | 2.4 | 10 February 2016 | Free (Community Edition), $2495 (Professional Edition) | Proprietary | Functional programming language and tools. |
| S-Lang | John E. Davis | | 1992 | 2.3.0 | 18 September 2014 | Free | GPL, Artistic License (1.x only) | Available as a standalone (slsh) and embedded interpreter (jed, slrn, ...) |
| Scilab | ESI Group Was:Inria | 1990 | 1994 | 2026.0.0 | 16 October 2025 | Free | GPL | Programmable, direct support of 2D+3D plotting. Interfaces to many other software packages. Interfacing to external modules written in C, Java, Python or other languages. Language syntax similar to MATLAB. Used for numerical computing in engineering and physics. |
| Smath Studio | SMath LLC (Andrey Ivashov) | | 2006 | 1.0.8348 | 11 September 2022 | Free | Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs (CC-BY-ND) | Mathematical notebook program, similar to Mathcad, with support for Plugins (e.g. Maxima plugin available) |
| Sysquake | Calerga | | 1998 | 6.5 | December 2019 | free, $2500 (Pro, commercial), $1000 (Pro, academic) | Proprietary | interactive graphics |
| TK Solver | Universal Technical Systems, Inc. | late 1970s | 1982 | 6.0.152 | 2020 | $599 commercial, $49 (student) | Proprietary | Numerical computation and rule-based application development |
| VisSim | Visual Solutions | | 1989 | 10.1 | January 2011 | $495-$2800 (commercial) free view-only version $50-$250/free v3.0 (academic) | Proprietary | Visual language for simulation and Model Based Design. Used in business, science and engineering. Performs complex scalar or matrix based ODE solving with parametric optimization. Has 2D and 3D plotting, 3D animation, and state transition built in. |
| Yorick | n/a | n/a | n/a | 9 | January 2015 | Free | GPL | Programmable, callable 2D+3D plotting. Language syntax similar to C. Interfacing to other software packages via C calls. |