Compare Quantum XL with Crystal Ball

Feature	Quantum XL	Crystal Ball

Price	$499 with optimization	$995 without optimization $1995 with optimization

Monte Carlo Simulations 1	Rocket Mode	Extreme Speed
Benchmark 2	1.09 Seconds Quantum XL is up to 9X faster	9.73 Seconds
Model Source	Excel Worksheets	Excel Worksheets
Support links off worksheet	Yes	Yes
Percent Contribution Plots	Yes	Yes
Latitude Plots	Yes	No
IO Manager	Yes	No
Visual Merge	Yes	No

Optimization
Supports Optimization	Yes, for no additional fee	Yes, for an additional $1000
Optimize single output	Yes	Yes
Reduce dpm across multiple outputs	Yes	No
Supported Optimization statistics	Mean, Median, X% Percentile, Minimum, Maximum, StDev, Variance, Range Width, Probability, Coeff. of Variability, Value, DPM, DPM-lower, DPM-upper, Count Out Of Spec, Pp, Ppk, Ppk-lower/upper, Ppm	Mean, Median, Mode, X% Percentile, Minimum, Maximum, StDev, Variance, Range Width, Probability, Certainty, Skewness, Kurtosis, Coeff. of Variability, Value, CPK, CPK-lower, CPK-upper, DPM, DPM-lower, DPM-upper, Count Out Of Spec, p, Ppk, Ppk-lower/upper, Ppm, Z scores

Distribution Support
Custom Continuous Distributions	Yes	Yes
Custom Discrete Distributions	Yes	Yes
# Supported Distributions	15	22

Platforms
Supported OS	Windows XP, Vista or Windows 7	Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Vista or Windows 7
Supported Excel Versions	Excel 2000, 2002, 2003, 2007, 2010 32-bit	Excel 2002, 2003, 2007, 2010
Requires installation of .NET framework	No	Yes

1. Both Quantum XL and Crystal Ball use external calculation engines to speed up simulations in Excel. Quantum XL's is called "Rocket Mode" while Crystal Ball's is called "Extreme Speed".

2. Test platform: Vista, Excel 2007 SP2, 1GB RAM, CPU Intel 3.00GHz
Tested Model: Crystal Ball Examples Guide > 'Cell Phone'
Number of simulations run: 1,000,000