Comparison of agent-based modeling software

The agent-based modeling (ABM) community has developed several practical agent based modeling toolkits that enable individuals to develop agent-based applications. More and more such toolkits are coming into existence, and each toolkit has a variety of characteristics. Several individuals have made attempts to compare toolkits to each other (e.g. ). Below is a chart providing an overview of platforms that have their own Wikipedia page and is intended to capture many of the features that are important to ABM toolkit users.

Comparison of ABM software

Agent Based Modeling Toolkit Comparison
Platform
 Supporting Organization License Programming Language Operating System GIS Capabilities 3D Capabilities Last Update
Altreva; Utrecht, Netherlands Proprietary; free evaluation version available for research and experimentation (some limitations but no expiration) No programming skills required. An adaptive form of genetic programming is used to create trading rules. Users can select functions to be used in the genetic programming engine. Windows Unknown Yes Up to 3 agent properties can be visualized in real-time using 2D graphics and color July 20, 2020 (Version 1.6.0)
The AnyLogic Company; Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois, USA Proprietary; Free Personal Learning Edition available Java Linux, macOS, Windows Yes: supports both tile maps from free online providers and shapefile-based maps Yes November 20, 2024
Poznan University of Technology, Poznan, Poland Depends on module: GPL/LGPL/Proprietary FramScript (similar to JavaScript) Cross-platform Yes Yes June 23, 2025 (version 5.3)
IRD/SU international research unit UMMISCO, France GNU GPL v3.0 GAML (GAma Modeling Language) for simulations, Java for extensions Windows; Linux; *nix; Mac OS X Yes Yes July 3, 2025; 15 months ago (version 2025.06.4)
George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA Open source
(Academic Free License)		 Java Cross-platform Yes Yes September 3, 2019 (Version 20)
Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA GNU GPL NetLogo Cross-platform Yes Yes May 1, 2026 (Version 7.0.4)
Argonne National Laboratory, University of Chicago; Lemont, Illinois, USA BSD Java (RepastS, RepastJ); Python (Repast4Py); Visual Basic, .Net, C++, J#, C# (Repast.net) Cross-platform Yes Yes July 2, 2024 (Version 2.11.0)
John E. Laird, Clare Bates Congdon, Mazin Assanie, Nate Derbinsky and Joseph Xu; Division of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA BSD Soar 1 to 5 in Lisp; Soar 6 in C; Java, C++, TCL Cross-platform Unknown Unknown July 28, 2017 (Version 9.6.0)
Mitchel Resnick, Eric Klopfer, and others at MIT Media Lab and The MIT Scheller Teacher Education Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Cambridge, MA, USA Free (closed source) – Clearthought Software License, Version 1.0 StarLogo (an extension of Logo) Cross-platform Unknown Unknown November 27, 2018
Swarm Development Group GNU GPL Java; Objective-C Cross-platform Unknown Unknown 2005

References

  1. ↑ Abar, Sameera; et al. (May 2017). "Agent Based Modelling and Simulation tools: A review of the state-of-art software". Computer Science Review. 24. doi:10.1016/j.cosrev.2017.03.001. Retrieved 28 November 2025.
  2. ↑ Gacek, Paulina; et al. (April 2025). "A Comparison of Selected Agent-Based Modelling Frameworks". Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-85703-4_19. Retrieved 28 November 2025.
  3. ↑ "Altreva - Stock market forecasting software using agent-based market simulation models". altreva.com. Retrieved 29 November 2023.
  4. ↑ (Version 8.7.7) "AnyLogic latest version - 8.9.3". anylogic.com. Retrieved 2 December 2024.
  5. ↑ "AnyLogic 8.9.2 and 8.9.3: innovations that drive future progress". Retrieved 2 December 2024.
  6. ↑ History framsticks.com
  7. ↑ "Releases · gama-platform/Gama". GitHub.
  8. ↑ "Releases · eclab/Mason". GitHub.
  9. ↑ "Releases · NetLogo/NetLogo". GitHub.
  10. ↑ "Releases · Repast/Repast.simphony". GitHub.
  11. ↑ "Releases · SoarGroup/Soar". GitHub.
  12. ↑ "Welcome".
  13. ↑ "Swarm:Stable release - Swarm".