# @RISK Reviews 2026. Verified Reviews, Pros & Cons | Capterra > Is @RISK the right Financial Risk Management solution for you? Explore 13 verified user reviews from people in industries like yours to make a confident choice. Source: https://www.capterra.com/p/59453/RISK/reviews --- @RISK 4.6 (13) [View alternatives](https://www.capterra.com/p/59453/RISK/alternatives/) Provider data verified by our Software Research team, and reviews moderated by our Reviews Verification team. [Learn more](https://www.capterra.com/our-story/) * * * Last updated April 24th, 2026 # Reviews of @RISK Ease of use 4.5 Customer Service 3.9 ## Showing most helpful reviews Showing 1-13 of 13 Reviews Sort by: Most Helpful Rating Company Size Reviewer's Role Length of Use Frequency of Use Aniruddha S. PhD studentt Management Consulting Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Excellent software for financial risk analysis" June 15, 2022 5.0 It has been really great to understand stochastic processes in finance and analyse investments, mergers and even stocks Pros The infinite variety of data representation though excel functions that emulate geometric brownian motion to analyse moving finances Cons The UI is pretty bad since there is not a standalone software to write the code and debug Review Source LC Lance C. Solution Architect Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Useful tool to integrate into Excel" May 18, 2025 5.0 Pros Ability to integrate into Excel to allow financial analysts to run monte-carlo simulations directly in their models Cons Takes a while to become proficient in it, and it is difficult to see the underlying calculation process Review Source AT Adam T. CEO Biotechnology Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "OK product - super scammy company - watch out - auto renewal with no notice and no refund" July 29, 2024 5.0 Decent product - but dangerous company to be involved with. Pros Ok product. Useful for what it does. Integrates well to excel. The problem is the software vendor - not the product. Cons The company basically makes money like a gym membership. Hope that people forget to cancel and dont offer refunds. Customer service emails bounce. We stopped using the product and got hit with a 6k auto renewal charge. We called the day of to cancel and they told us our contract said we could only cancel 60 days prior to renewal. Huge red flag. No way to use the product without signing the auto renewal agreement and they dont send notifications prior to auto renewal. Review Source AM Alicia M. Guest Lecturer Higher Education Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Using Monte Carlo Simulation" April 12, 2017 5.0 Monte Carlo simulation is a very useful tool that allows the user to incorporate variability to what otherwise would be a simple spreadsheet model that uses average values. It is possible that if you use average values a project you are analysing will be profitable according to your analysis. When you incorporate variability while the expected profit is positive, can find that there is a high probability of the profit being really a loss. @risk is a software you can use to create this type of models. It is basically an Excel add-in that will allow you to transform your Excel model into a much more versatile one. When you run your model you obtain not only a point estimate but can look the spread of the estimates. Can also identify which input variables are critical and you can also do some sensitivity analysis to look into the potential effect of one or more of the inputs changing (for example, what could happen if interest rates change). The software is easy to use and it has an excellent manual as well as excellent online support. The company also organises on a regular basis very interesting conferences where case studies are presented by companies and these conferences are an opportunity to meet like minded people. I have been using the software mostly for teaching but past students are using them at their workplace with great success. Pros Two things: documentation and the easiness to do networking which is very important for anybody who is interested on working in the area. Cons Would like to see more practical examples of BIG projects but I suppose many of them are property of the company that developed them. Review Source Response from Lumivero April 25, 2019 Thank you, Alicia, for taking the time to write this glowing review of our software! We are so appreciative of customers, like yourself, that spread the word about @RISK and Monte Carlo simulation. Your description of Monte Carlo simulation is perfect and helps to demystify it for those that aren't familiar with why Monte Carlo simulation can often times be a better option. We have over 80,000 students a year using our software, some of which are probably your students! These students will typically enter the workforce being able to make better decisions using @RISK and Monte Carlo simulation. Thank you, again, for your kind words and for being one of our valued users! VR Verified Reviewer AVP Actuary Insurance Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Just okay - R or Python better" August 11, 2022 4.0 Pros The software integrates very easily with excel, and for an advanced user of excel, it is really easy to get the hang of. @Risk functions make it easy to calculate distributions. Cons @Risk is very slow when making complicated models or dealing with large datasets. R or Python would be able to process much quicker. Review Source SP Sandeep P. Simulation Engineer Semiconductors Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Feature rich software for Monte Carlo Simulation" November 12, 2018 5.0 Pros Works within Excel as an add-in Easy to setup and use Distribution library is large, also like the distribution fitting option Cons There is no viewer available. User must have the @Risk license to interact with the results. You can always take screen shots but you cant interact iwth the data. Review Source DB Dane B. Student Financial Services Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Powerful Modeling Tool" April 18, 2019 4.0 @RISK is an extremely functional tool for data modeling and has given me a great user experience since I began using it. Pros The ease and efficiency @RISK allows you to model real business problems makes it a great tool to have. It provides a lot of insight with its large amount of available tools to sort your collected data (tornado graphs, histograms, etc.) and can sort it further by correlation coefficients, total change, etc. It is also very easy to pick up. If you already have some fluency with Excel and basic knowledge of statistics you will be able to understand how to work @RISK very fast. Cons There is not a lot of critical things I have to say about @RISK as its functionality is as it should be. Although if I did have to choose I would say that it would be nice to have a couple more graphical tools to visualize the data. Review Source Ebert B. Full Professor Higher Education Used the software for: I used a free trial ### "In my opinion, @Risk is the best software for analysing scenarios under risk approach." July 4, 2018 4.0 It is an easy way for doing risk analysis Pros I do most like is its functionality, because it works together Microsoft Excel, and this feature allow one to study different scenarios under risk. Cons I do least like is that I cannot generate figures in postscript, namely, files with extension ps or eps, which are very necessaries for doing reports in my profession. Review Source XS Xiaojun S. AP Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "I used Palisade @risk to teach a graduate course named engineering management and planning" April 23, 2018 5.0 Palisade @risk is very useful in teaching Critical Path and other concepts in project development and management. Pros Palisade @risk is very powerful and easy to use. Common adjustment of simulation setting can be achieved in the front ribon without the need to go to more options. Cons I wish Palisade @risk provided some more indepth instructional videos, focusing on each of the specific Risk functions. The current video is great but hide some important details and making it difficult to replicate for a novice user. Review Source LR Lindsey R. Operations Manager Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Great Operations Tool!" February 26, 2018 5.0 Pros There are several video tutorials available for questions you might have and this is a great tool for simulating several possible outcomes quickly. Seems to be a lot of support available for troubleshooting and learning. Cons I liked least that I was limited by my own lack of knowledge of the potential and offerings of this product, but that may improve the more it is used. Review Source EC Edson C. Rédacteur Writing and Editing Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Le meilleur logiciel d'évaluation de risques " March 17, 2023 4.0 Pros La capacité du logiciel à fournir des résultats précis et détaillés Cons La durée de la période d'essai pourrait être revue pour les nouveaux utilisateurs Review Source SS Sushil S. Graduate Research Assistant Education Management Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "One of the best tool for financial risk analysis" January 20, 2023 4.0 Pros Good for running simulations, predicting the risk, and easy to use. Cons No mobile access and its UX/UI could be better. Review Source AC Alexander C. CIO - Project Management Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "All what we were looking for for risk control" May 4, 2018 5.0 Pros Very flexible can be used with Excel spreadsheet and Project Great tool to quantitative factors of risk Cons I just have one complain, the only time I had a problem with the tool, I made a ticked but didn't get a response as quick as I needed. Review Source Similar Products Featured ## Related categories [Financial Risk Management](https://www.capterra.com/financial-risk-management-software/)[Risk Management](https://www.capterra.com/risk-management-software/) ## Send me user reviews about this product ### Fill out the form and we'll send a list of the top-rated software based on real user reviews directly to your inbox.