Find your next solver
A curated index of Operations Research resources — solvers, courses, books, datasets, communities and more. Classified by type, topic and audience.
- BARONSolver
BARON is the industry-leading solver for mixed-integer nonlinear programming (MINLP).
- Choco solverSolver
An Open-Source java library for constraint programming
- ClarabelSolver
http://clarabel.rs/ is a Rust implementation of an interior point numerical solver for convex optimization problems using a novel homogeneous embedding.
- COPTSolver
A mathematical optimization solver for large-scale optimization problems. It is independently developed by Cardinal Operations, and it includes high-performance solvers for LP, MIP, SDP, (MI)SOCP, convex (MI)QP, convex (MI)QCP and exponential cone programming.
- CPLEXSolver
The IBM ILOG CPLEX Optimizer solves integer programming problems, very large[3] linear programming problems using either primal or dual variants of the simplex method or the barrier interior point method, convex and non-convex quadratic programming problems, and convex quadratically constrained problems (solved via second-order cone programming, or SOCP).
- cuOptSolver
Achieve world-record speed on large-scale problems with millions of constraints and variables—saving time and reducing costs.
- Discord: CVXPYCommunity
The CVXPY Discord community is a group of people who use the CVXPY software to solve convex optimization problems in Python
- Discord: HiGHSCommunity
The HiGHS Discord server.
- Discord: Operations ResearchCommunity
Discord community about Operations Research
- Discord: OR-ToolsCommunity
Discord community about OR-Tools, a Google framework for mathematical modeling and solvers
- FICO XpressSolver
The FICO Xpress optimizer is a commercial optimization solver for linear programming (LP), mixed integer linear programming (MILP), convex quadratic programming (QP), convex quadratically constrained quadratic programming (QCQP), second-order cone programming (SOCP) and their mixed integer counterparts. Xpress includes a general purpose non-linear solver, Xpress NonLinear, including a successive linear programming algorithm (SLP, first-order method), and Artelys Knitro (second-order methods).
- GecodeSolver
Gecode is an open source C++ toolkit for developing constraint-based systems and applications. Gecode provides a constraint solver with state-of-the-art performance while being modular and extensible.
- GLPKSolver
For solving large-scale linear programming (LP), mixed integer programming (MIP), and other related problems. It is a set of routines written in ANSI C and organized in the form of a callable library.
- GurobiSolver
Gurobi Optimizer is a prescriptive analytics platform and a decision-making technology developed by Gurobi Optimization, LLC. The Gurobi Optimizer (often referred to as simply, “Gurobi”) is a solver, since it uses mathematical optimization to calculate the answer to a problem.
- HexalySolver
Heuristic-based solver with great results in complex problems
- HiGHSSolver
HiGHS is open-source software to solve linear programming (LP), mixed-integer programming (MIP), and convex quadratic programming (QP) models.
- InsideOptSolver
Optimization software that leverages machine learning to provide unparalleled performance.
- IpoptSolver
Ipopt (Interior Point Optimizer, pronounced "Eye-Pea-Opt") is an open source software package for large-scale nonlinear optimization. It can be used to solve general nonlinear programming problems
- jMetalSolver
jMetal is a Java-based framework for multi-objective optimization with metaheuristics.
- KalisSolver
An innovative constraints programming component able to solve quickly and efficiently a wide range of combinatorial problems relying on an interactive and user-friendly hybrid framework including constraint programming, mixed-integer programming and artificial intelligence.
- KNITROSolver
The most advanced solver for nonlinear optimization.
- LINGOSolver
LINGO includes a set of built-in solvers to tackle a wide variety of problems. Unlike many modeling packages, all of the LINGO solvers are directly linked to the modeling environment.
- lpsolveSolver
A Mixed Integer Linear Programming (MILP) solver.
- MIPLearnSoftware
An extensible framework for solving discrete optimization problems using a combination of Mixed-Integer Linear Programming (MIP) and Machine Learning (ML). MIPLearn uses ML methods to automatically identify patterns in previously solved instances of the problem, then uses these patterns to accelerate the performance of conventional state-of-the-art MIP solvers such as CPLEX, Gurobi or XPRESS.
- MosekSolver
Solves your LPs, QPs, SOCPs, SDPs, and MIPs. Includes interfaces to C, C++, Java, MATLAB, .NET, Python, Julia, Rust and R.
- NevergradSolver
A gradient-free optimization platform.
- NLoptSolver
NLopt is a free/open-source library for nonlinear optimization, providing a common interface for a number of different free optimization routines available online as well as original implementations of various other algorithms.
- OSQPSolver
The OSQP (Operator Splitting Quadratic Program) solver is a numerical optimization package for solving convex quadratic programs.
- SCIPSolver
SCIP is currently one of the fastest non-commercial solvers for mixed integer programming (MIP) and mixed integer nonlinear programming (MINLP). It is also a framework for constraint integer programming and branch-cut-and-price.
- SCSSolver
SCS (Splitting Conic Solver) is a numerical optimization package for solving large-scale convex quadratic cone problems. The code is freely available on https://github.com/cvxgrp/scs. It solves primal-dual problems.
- Stack Exchange: Operations ResearchCommunity
Stack Exchange about Operations Research topics
- Subreddit: Operations ResearchCommunity
Subreddit about Operations Research
- Subreddit: OptimizationCommunity
Subreddit about Optimization
- Timefold AISolver
Updated fork from OptaPlanner
- X (Twitter): Operations Research listCommunity
X (Twitter) list with accounts related to Operations Research