Vertex42 Template Gallery
Provides calendars, planners, schedules, business tools, and personal finance spreadsheets as templates for Excel and Word.
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Risk Solver Free
by Frontline Systems Inc.Microsoft 365Price not published
Runs Monte Carlo risk analysis in Excel for the Web and desktop Excel.
PRICINGNot published
DEPLOYMENTCloud
CATEGORYFinance
UPDATED ON MARKETPLACE
What it does
Risk Solver Free runs Monte Carlo simulations in Excel for the Web or desktop Excel, with simulations performed in the cloud. It adds probability distributions to uncertain input cells, marks result cells for monitoring, and produces histograms, summary statistics, and percentiles. Statistics and percentiles can be copied into worksheet ranges, and individual trials can be viewed in the worksheet. The add-in supports up to 24 uncertain inputs, 12 uncertain outputs, and 1,000 trials.
Key capabilities
from the Microsoft Marketplace listingProbability distributions
Adds 10 continuous and 8 discrete probability distributions to cells and allows their parameters to be set.
Output monitoring
Marks cells containing results for monitoring during a simulation.
Simulation results
Produces frequency, cumulative, and reverse cumulative histograms, along with summary statistics and percentiles.
Worksheet export
Copies statistics and percentiles into a worksheet cell range.
Use cases
- Risk analysis can be applied to models in pharmaceuticals, oil and gas, finance, insurance, and manufacturing quality control.
- A spreadsheet model can be used to examine the range of possible outcomes, including downside risk and upside potential.
How it compares
Risk Solver Free, Vertex42 Template Gallery, Causal Scenarios, and Claude by Anthropic for Excel are listed with cloud deployment and an unknown pricing model. Risk Solver Free was updated on Nov 2025, compared with Jan 2023 for Vertex42 Template Gallery and Causal Scenarios, and Jul 2026 for Claude by Anthropic for Excel.
| Name | Pricing | Deployment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|
| this plugin | Price not published | Cloud | |
| Solver Free | Price not published | Cloud | |
| Vertex42 Template Gallery | Price not published | Cloud | |
| Causal Scenarios | Price not published | Cloud | |
| Claude by Anthropic for Excel | Price not published | Cloud |
In the catalog
98 plugins in Excel · Finance
Price distribution: 1 free, 1 freemium, 21 paid, 75 price not published
Pricing & deployment
Platform
Microsoft 365
Product
Excel
Deployment
Cloud
Pricing
Price not published
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What the vendor says
«Use the Risk Solver Add-in from Frontline Systems to perform risk analysis using Monte Carlo simulation in your spreadsheet -- using Excel for the Web in Office 365, or desktop Excel. Your simulation will be run in the cloud. This Add-in includes key features from Frontline Systems' Analytic Solver add-in for Excel …»
Official marketplace listing
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Publisher
Frontline Systems Inc.
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