Microsoft Excel vs. Wolfram Mathematica
| Product | Rating | Most Used By | Product Summary | Starting Price |
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 Microsoft Excel | Score8.7 out of 10 | N/A | Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet application available as part of Microsoft 365 (Office 365), or standalone, in cloud-based and on-premise editions. | $6.99 per month |
 Mathematica | Score8.2 out of 10 | N/A | Wolfram's flagship product Mathematica is a modern technical computing application featuring a flexible symbolic coding language and a wide array of graphing and data visualization capabilities. | $1,520 per year |
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| Entry-level Setup Fee | No setup fee | No setup fee | ||||||||||||||
| Additional Details | — | Discounts available for students and educational institutions. The Network Edition reduce per-user license costs through shared deployment across any number of machines on a local-area network. | ||||||||||||||
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| Likelihood to Recommend | 9.1 | 9.9 |
| Likelihood to Renew | 9.0 | - |
| Usability | 10.0 | - |
| Availability | 10.0 | - |
| Performance | 10.0 | - |
| Support Rating | 9.0 | 9.5 |
| Implementation Rating | 8.0 | - |
| Configurability | 9.0 | - |
| Ease of integration | 9.0 | - |
| Product Scalability | 10.0 | - |
| Vendor post-sale | 9.0 | - |
| Vendor pre-sale | 9.0 | - |