COMSOL Multiphysics Licence 2026 – 2029

Accessing a licence

A seat is available for £3,025 (£3000 inc VAT, plus a £25 admin fee) per annum and can be shared between multiple non-concurrent users.  The seat entitles you to access all of the modules available under our Departmental licence (listed below) The current 30 seat / 300 Module COMSOL Software licence contract is for 3 years  (01/03/2026 – 28/02/2029) but the subscription can be paid annually.

Whilst the contract subscription charge is an annual payment arrangement please be aware that the COMSOL renewal is a 3 year contract commitment. Seat holders can pay for their seats annually or for the full 3 year contract duration, dependent on available funding. This would be a fixed cost and would not increase over the 3 year term.

COMSOL Academic Price List for consideration: PRICE LIST

Please contact helpdesk@eng.cam.ac.uk with details of how many seats are required, which CRSids will have access to them and a source of funds

Short term access

If access is only required for a short period or funding for the 3 year contract is unknown/unavailable then the following rates are available:

• One month access – £375
• Three months – £975
• Six months – £1825

This will provide access to all modules but the seat would be shared with other end users also requiring short term access.

Please contact helpdesk@eng.cam.ac.uk with details of which length period is required, which CRSids will have access and a source of funds.

Available modules

AC/DC	Acoustics	Battery Design	CFD
Chemical Reaction Engineering	Composite Materials	Corrosion	Design
Electric Discharge	Electrochemistry	Electrodeposition	Fatigue
Fuel cell & Electrolyzer	Geomechanics	Granular Flow	Heat Transfer
Liquid & Gas Properties	Material Library	MEMS	Metal Processing
Microfluidics	Mixer	Molecular Flow	Multibody Dynamics
Nonlinear Structural Materials	Optimization	Particle Tracing	Pipe Flow
Plasma	Polymer Flow	Porous Media	Ray Optics
RF	Rotordynamics	Semiconductor	Structural Mechanics
Subsurface Flow	Uncertainty Quantification	Wave Optics

LiveLink for Autocad	LiveLink for Excel	LiveLink for Inventor	LiveLink for Matlab
LiveLink for PTC Creo	LiveLink for PTC Pro/ENGINEER	LiveLink for Revit	LiveLink for Simulink
LiveLink for SolidEdge	LiveLink for Solidworks	CAD import	ECAD import

Installation instructions

Please note that you will be unable to use the licence without authorisation from a COMSOL seat owner or having purchased a seat

Ensure that the account on the device has your CRSid as the username. You can learn how to do this for Windows or MacOS at https://help.eng.cam.ac.uk/software/change-account-name-for-licence-server/

Step 1: Download the Software

You can download the COMSOL software from the following link:
http://software.eng.cam.ac.uk/comsol/

Step 2: Set Up the Connection

This step is not required if you are connected to the department or university network (via a wired connection or Eduroam).

If you are not connected to the department or university network, you will need access to an Engineering VPN or a University VPN. If you don’t already have one, click the link to set up a University VPN connection:

https://help.uis.cam.ac.uk/service/network-services/remote-access/uis-vpn

Make sure to activate the VPN during software installation and every time you use the software.

Step 3: Install the Software

During installation, you will be prompted to enter a licence format. Choose <port number>@<hostname> and use the following details:

1718@comsol-lmserv.eng.cam.ac.uk

Technical Support

For support on installing COMSOL;

Engineering Department end-users please contact helpdesk@eng.cam.ac.uk with full details including screenshots of any errors

Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy end-users please contact Anthony Gledhill computer-officer@msm.cam.ac.uk

DAMPT end-users please contact the Maths IT Helpdesk help@maths.cam.ac.uk

Department of Clinical Neurosciences end-users please contact the Clinical School Computing Service CSCSservicedesk@medschl.cam.ac.uk

Department of Physics end-users please contact the UIS Service Desk servicedesk@uis.cam.ac.uk

For support using COMSOL please see COMSOL’s Support Centre

Training/Support

Please see this page for details of online resources & support available to those with licences.