The original set is about $800,000, but ansys has an educational version in China, which is relatively cheap, and the specific price is unknown. It is specially configured for colleges and universities. This is a strategy of ansys, which encourages college students to use it, so that students may continue to use ansys when they go to work after graduation, which creates demand.

In fact, some softwares do well in finite element analysis, such as abaqus and ADAMAS. , but their popularity is not as good as ansys, because of the popularity problem.