The short answer is yes—but with significant caveats. COMSOL AB does not offer a permanently free, fully-featured commercial license. However, they provide several legal avenues to use the software at zero cost, depending on your role (student, evaluator, or educator) and your project scope.

Let’s dissect the three legitimate methods to obtain a COMSOL Multiphysics free license.

Bottom line: This is NOT a COMSOL Multiphysics free license for solving. It is a free viewing license.


COMSOL's business model is modular – even paid licenses are deceptive:

So a "free license" gives you a taste, but you quickly hit paywalls.


If you are a student or researcher at a university, your institution likely already has a license available for you.