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MathWorks

MathWorks MATLAB

Composite Score

8.6 /10

CX Score

8.8 /10

85 Reviews Write a Review

What is MathWorks MATLAB?

MATLAB is a high-level language and interactive environment for numerical computation, visualization, and programming. It is a programming and numeric computing platform used by millions of engineers and scientists to analyze data, develop algorithms, and create models.

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Awards & Recognition

MathWorks MATLAB won the following awards in the Machine Learning Platforms category

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2025 Data Quadrant Champion

2025

1 Top Rated Capabilities

0 Top Rated Features

2025

2024 Emotional Footprint Champion

2024

2024 Data Quadrant Champion

2024

9 Top Rated Capabilities

7 Top Rated Features

2024

2023 Emotional Footprint Champion

2023

Service Experience
Product Impact
Contract Negotiation
Conflict Resolution

2023

2023 Data Quadrant Champion

2023

6 Top Rated Capabilities

5 Top Rated Features

2023

2022 Emotional Footprint Champion

2022

Strategy and Innovation
Service Experience
Product Impact
Contract Negotiation
Conflict Resolution

2022

2022 Data Quadrant Champion

2022

7 Top Rated Capabilities

4 Top Rated Features

2022

MathWorks MATLAB Ratings

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86 Likeliness to Recommend

1
Since last award

93 Plan to Renew

81 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

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Emotional Footprint Overview

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+88 Net Emotional Footprint

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love MathWorks MATLAB?

1% Negative

8% Neutral

91% Positive

Pros

Trustworthy
Reliable
Helps Innovate
Client Friendly Policies

Feature Ratings

Average 80

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Performance and Scalability

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Openness and Flexibility

Data Exploration and Visualization

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Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 79

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Business Value Created

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Ease of Customization

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Ease of IT Administration

MathWorks MATLAB Reviews

Satvik S.

Role: Student Academic
Industry: Technology
Involvement: End User of Application

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted May 2024

Vast range of features and capability, but bulky.

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates MathWorks MATLAB from other similar products?

Range of features and capabilities.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

It can do anything from running a basic code to simulating an entire physics algorithm.

What do you dislike most about this product?

It's very bulky and slow. Multiple bugs still present and lacks support for older hardware.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

It's a very capable product but expect increase in response times and frequent bugs in simulation models.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Unique Features
Inspires Innovation
Continually Improving Product

Manish S.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Technology
Involvement: End User of Application

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jun 2025

Intuitive Tools and excellent for math

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

What differentiates MathWorks MATLAB from other similar products?

MATLAB has many built-in features for data analysis, and it has GUI based tools which can be very helpful in easing the codes which makes it reliable and strong tool.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

What I liked most about it is that it has impressive data visualizations and data plotting capabilities,

What do you dislike most about this product?

MATLAB can be very restrictive when it comes to its ecosystem which I did not like.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Well I would recommend it to all data analysts and scientists.

Pros

Continually Improving Product
Performance Enhancing
Enables Productivity
Efficient Service

Vikas P.

Role: Finance
Industry: Banking
Involvement: End User of Application

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted May 2025

Matlab Indepth Review.

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates MathWorks MATLAB from other similar products?

Ease of use

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

User Interface

What do you dislike most about this product?

Nothing much

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Must have and very useful

Pros

Helps Innovate
Reliable
Enables Productivity
Trustworthy

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Awards & Recognition

2025 Data Quadrant Champion

2024 Emotional Footprint Champion

2024 Data Quadrant Champion

2023 Emotional Footprint Champion

2023 Data Quadrant Champion

2022 Emotional Footprint Champion

2022 Data Quadrant Champion

MathWorks MATLAB Ratings

86 Likeliness to Recommend

1 Since last award

93 Plan to Renew

81 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

Emotional Footprint Overview

+88 Net Emotional Footprint

How much do users love MathWorks MATLAB?

Pros

Feature Ratings Average rating of all product features, some of which may not be shown below

Feature Engineering Ability to extract and build features from raw data.

Data Pre-Processing Ability to wrangle or pre-process data to ready it for model training.

Data Ingestion Ability to access data from various sources on-prem and in the cloud and of various type: structured, unstructured, and semi-structured, real-time, etc.

Model Training Ability to train a model with a range of data sets that you provide.

Performance and Scalability Systems performance (time) and scalability end-to-end: from data load and processing to model creation and deployment.

Model Tuning Ability to fine-tune models based on monitoring feedback within the platform.

Openness and Flexibility Integration with open-source and 3P resources (languages, frameworks, libraries, etc.)

Data Exploration and Visualization Ability to visually manipulate, interact with, and explore data, and perform basic descriptive statistics and pattern detection.

Algorithm Diversity Provides multiple diverse ready-to-use machine learning algorithms out-of-the-box.

Data Labeling Ability to annotate/label data to create a training data set.

Explainability Ability to explain/ visualize the model.

Vendor Capability Ratings Average rating of all vendor capabilities, some of which may not be shown below

Quality of Features Feature quality is just as important as quantity. Use this data to determine if this product will do what you're purchasing it to do, easily, intuitively, reliably, and effectively.

Business Value Created Software needs to create value for employees, customers, partners, and, ultimately, shareholders. This data expresses user satisfaction - or lack thereof - with the product's business value.

Breadth of Features Users prefer feature rich software that enables them to perform diverse series of tasks. This data expresses user satisfaction with the product's breadth of features.

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement Vendors who don't stay on top of emerging needs and trends won't enable you to meet your business goals. Use this data to separate innovators from imposters.

Availability and Quality of Training Effective and readily available training enables users to get the most out of the software you've chosen. Use this section to make sure your vendor's training programs and materials measure up.

Ease of Data Integration Use this data to determine whether the product will cause headaches or make data integration easy.

Ease of Customization Don't get bogged down in a difficult customization; use this data to make sure you can easily achieve the functionality you need for your particular situation.

Ease of Implementation Successfully implementing new software is necessary to realize its full value and promote end user adoption. This data indicates whether or not the product is easy to implement.

Usability and Intuitiveness End user learning curves cost the organization money. Pay attention to your end users' technical ability to determine how important UX is in your purchase.

Vendor Support The importance of vendor support will vary for each organization depending on internal capabilities, but there will always be issues that only the vendor can resolve.

Ease of IT Administration This data indicates whether IT personnel will be able to resolve issues and perform configurations efficiently and effectively.

MathWorks MATLAB Reviews

Satvik S.

Vast range of features and capability, but bulky.

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Manish S.

Intuitive Tools and excellent for math

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Vikas P.

Matlab Indepth Review.

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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