# SimScale (slim)

> SimScale is a cloud engineering simulation platform from SimScale GmbH in Munich. Its REST API imports geometry, builds meshes, sets up and runs fluid, structural and thermal simulations and exports results, with Python and C# SDKs, on the Enterprise plan.

- Full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/simscale.md (~7,950 tokens) · this version ~1,780 tokens · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/simscale.json · canonical https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/simscale
- Index: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt · API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json · MCP: https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp · Updated: 2026-11-04 · pricing https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/simscale#pricing · reviews https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/simscale#reviews
- Licence: CC BY 4.0, credit Anchor Terminal and link this page (https://www.anchorterminal.com/terms/#data)

**E · 41/100 · rank #1203 of 1349 · #6 in CAD, engineering & fabrication · not agent-ready · confidence medium**


Assessment: Public OpenAPI documents for v0 and the v1 beta, a keyless sandbox that answers every endpoint with example data, and official Python and C# SDKs let an agent plan a simulation before anyone signs a contract. Running one needs an Enterprise API key priced on request, with no status page, no published rate limits and SDK releases eight months old.

## Facts

- Kind: HTTP API · vendor: SimScale GmbH · category: CAD, engineering & fabrication · legal entity: SimScale GmbH · provenance 69/100
- Auth: API key · pricing: Paid · x402: no · licence: unknown
- Probe metrics: not measured yet (probes haven't run)
- Surface listed: The REST API at api.simscale.com, read from the v0 and v1 OpenAPI documents, the Swagger UI shell, the Python SDK README, docs and releases (shallow clone), the docs hub page, pricing, terms and conditions, imprint, security page, data privacy statement, Intigriti programme page and security.txt on 3 November 2026. No key was used and the sandbox was not called
- Where it runs: AWS EMEA in Ireland and Luxembourg hosts all production services; Google Cloud (Netherlands) and Azure (Sweden Central) for specific processing; LLM inference on platform content through AWS Bedrock and Google Vertex AI within EU regions, per the data privacy statement of November 2025
- API areas: The v0 tags are Projects, Folders, Spaces and permissions, Geometries and Geometry Imports, Table Imports, Materials, Meshes and Mesh Operations, Simulations, Simulation Runs, Simulation Result Exports, Reports, Postprocessing, Wind, Storage, Users and AI Models. Methods come in plain and _with_http_info forms in the SDK
- Versions: /v0 is the generic version; /v1 is in beta with a migration guide, changelog, getting-started walkthroughs and Workbench compatibility notes at api.simscale.com/apidoc/v1/ (pages render by script and were not read). Simulation Spec and Meshing Spec schemas carry their own versions
- SDKs: simscale-python-sdk (Python 3.6 or later, release 19.1.0 of 3 March 2026, installed from the GitHub tag, reads SIMSCALE_API_KEY and SIMSCALE_API_URL) and simscale-csharp-sdk, plus simscale-python-sdk-v1 and simscale-csharp-sdk-v1 for the beta
- Plans: Community free (2,000 core hours, 10 simulations, 16 cores, public projects); Mechanical (3,000 core hours), Professional (10,000) and Enterprise (custom, with dedicated API support, Engineering AI and Physics AI) on request. API access is an Enterprise feature
- Security: SOC 2 Type II by Prescient Assurance (letter of attestation downloadable), AES encryption at rest and in transit, salted password hashes, Intigriti bug bounty (Tier 2, €250 to €6,000, automated tooling capped at 2 requests a second), security@simscale.com
- Legal entity: SimScale GmbH, Ridlerstraße 31B, 80339 Munich, Commercial Register Munich HRB 201813, managing directors Vincenz Dölle and David Heiny, per the imprint. Founded in November 2012

- Scores: Reliability 15, Performance pending, Schema & documentation 71, Agent ergonomics 55, Security & auth 44, Payments & pricing 10, Task success pending, Maintenance & community 33, Transparency & trust 65 · total over the 7 assessed categories
- Why: Reliability, Read with the hosted lines on api.simscale.com. · Schema & documentation, Public OpenAPI 3.0.3 documents for /v0 (98 operations) and /v1 (163 operations), with the simulation and meshing schema versions selectable… · Agent ergonomics, List endpoints page with limit and page parameters and results are fetched per run and per export rather than whole (15 of 25). · Security & auth, One API key per user in the X-API-KEY header, with no scopes, documented expiry, rotation or revocation; the SDK reads it from an environmen… · Payments & pricing, No x402, MPP or L402 (0). · Maintenance & community, Read for a closed service with open SDK sources. · Transparency & trust, Closed service with clear terms (version July 2023) naming SimScale GmbH under German law (15).
- Sources: 21, open questions: 7, both in the full twin
- Capabilities: cad.simulate, cad.export
- JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/simscale.json
- Verify (for the vendor): the badge `https://www.anchorterminal.com/badges/simscale.svg` or a link to https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/simscale from a page on simscale.com or one of its subdomains, or the README at the root of github.com/SimScaleGmbH/simscale-python-sdk, then `POST https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/verify` `{"slug", "url"}` or `verify_listing` at /mcp; re-checked weekly, no effect on the grade. Snippets in the full twin.
- Support: support@simscale.com; api@simscale.com; https://www.simscale.com/docs/platform/api-and-sdk-documentation/; more in the full twin

## Before you call it

1. Develop against https://api.simscale.com/v0/sandbox with X-API-KEY: sandbox-example-api-key, which returns example data and runs nothing; real keys need an Enterprise plan the owner must arrange
2. Follow the geometry import flow in order, requesting a storage location, uploading the file, creating the import, polling its event log, then listing the geometries valid for setup
3. Pin simulationSpecSchemaVersion and meshingSpecSchemaVersion when fetching the OpenAPI document, since spec schemas change more often than the API and a mismatch locks the Workbench
4. Treat v1 as beta and build on v0 unless the owner wants v1, and read the migration guide in a browser, since it rendered empty for our reader
5. No rate limit is published, so space out polling of run status and back off on 429; the terms allow SimScale to impose traffic limits without notice

## Connect

```bash
curl -H "X-API-KEY: sandbox-example-api-key" https://api.simscale.com/v0/sandbox/projects
```
Full config and headless snippets are in the full page. Through letme (picks today, calling later): https://letme.dev/simscale

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