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How Wellbore Genius compares
75 capabilities across 8 frac simulators (7 competitors plus Wellbore Genius). Sortable, searchable, and sourced — every cell carries a footnote you can verify.
FracCADE / StimPro / FracPro cross-comparison → 12-point response with route + drift-guard receipts
✓Full⚠Partial✗Missing—N/A or unverified
Wellbore Genius capability status
Per-capability status with a one-line justification and a link to the in-app module that delivers it. 75 capabilities total — 75 supported, 0 partial, 0 planned.
| Capability | Status | Justification | Module |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frac physics | |||
| Supported | Planar 3D + comparator across PKN / KGD / radial | Open → | |
| Supported | DDM + curvature + out-of-plane tilt + reconvergence weld | Open → | |
| Supported | AT-1/AT-2 damage + He-Hutchinson kink/pierce | Open → | |
| Supported | Two-criterion Mohr-Coulomb classifier + play presets | Open → | |
| Supported | Geertsma + 3D Mindlin + Δσxy/xz/yz nucleus-of-strain | Open → | |
| Supported | Per-bench (ν,α), depth-attenuated | Open → | |
| Supported | Phase 9 segregated implicit T → P → σh kernel | Open → | |
| Supported | DFN graph + RP/GW dispatcher over DDM tips | Open → | |
| Supported | Per-factor Spearman tornadoes | Open → | |
| Supported | Barenblatt-style cohesive tip w/ Zod-validated inputs + public REST endpoint /api/public/cohesive-zone/compute + stable serialized error payload | Open → | |
| Supported | XFEM + peridynamics tracks validated against UXFEM 2023 and Fu 2013 benchmarks | Open → | |
| Supported | DP-cap plasticity module for compaction & pore-collapse regimes | Open → | |
| Reservoir & coupling | |||
| Supported | Phase 14 IMPES + tracers + fluid regions | Open → | |
| Supported | Peng-Robinson energized-CO₂ gas-FVF bridge | Open → | |
| Supported | Per-cell, per-species upstream-flux on top of IMPES | Open → | |
| Supported | Terzaghi + monotonic loading + hysteresis-aware unloading | Open → | |
| Supported | Full saturation-function library, drop-in for 3-phase IMPES | Open → | |
| Supported | nx0 / 2nx0 / 4nx0 × upwind/TVD with scheme recommender | Open → | |
| Supported | v2.0.1 EPC bundle, validator surfaces dangling refs | Open → | |
| Supported | Native GRDECL writer w/ property cubes | Open → | |
| Supported | PH/PS flash EoS + hydrate formation curve wired into choke and geothermal-injector advisors | Open → | |
| Supported | Round-trippable per-layer rock-property CSV (E, ν, UCS, φ, k) with template + validation | Open → | |
| Supported | Analytical timestep loop `runFdiBidirectionalLoop` couples Geertsma Δσ_h into per-step half-length growth and inverts an optional SWPM residual into a rate-delta advisory. Sprint 1b. | Open → | |
| Supported | EDFM connectivity index + Warren-Root λ/ω dual-porosity transfer w/ CSV round-trip; wired into reservoir coupling backlog | Open → | |
| Supported | One-click regional PVT presets tied to the compositional-3P and gas-lift IPR paths | Open → | |
| Supported | Separated-mode neural operator: 10M+ node pressure / stress fields without cubic memory growth | Open → | |
| Wellbore & ops | |||
| Supported | Phase 8 segregated implicit pipe w/ two-way coupling + α frontier | Open → | |
| Supported | Zuber-Findlay + DAK + Sutton + Wichert-Aziz sour-gas | Open → | |
| Supported | 4-limit window w/ severity ladder | Open → | |
| Supported | 5-method screening + pad-shared compressor allocator | Open → | |
| Supported | Lubinski sinusoidal + Dawson-Paslay helical buckling | Open → | |
| Supported | Per-stage plug + perf-gun + diversion scheduler | Open → | |
| Supported | 8 grades / 13 tubing / 10 casing / 9 packers / 6 plugs / 5 perf guns | Open → | |
| Supported | autoSelectTubing heuristic w/ hard safety-factor filters | Open → | |
| Supported | Beggs-Brill multiphase pressure-drop solver alongside drift-flux and single-phase paths | Open → | |
| Diagnostics | |||
| Supported | All 4 + auto-detect + ISIP auto-pick + live HM | Open → | |
| Supported | 5-way transport picker + DAS→cluster ε→geometry inversion | Open → | |
| Supported | Vavryčuk ISO/DC/CLVD + Brune source radius + DFN bridge | Open → | |
| Supported | 3-method classifier + closure picker + Nolte falloff | Open → | |
| Supported | Swept-ellipse capture + Σ ≤ 1 mass conservation + tip-deflection | Open → | |
| Supported | DFIT · Nolte-Smith · DeclineAnalysis · StepDownAuto · IsipAutoPick · microseismic · CompletionQualityIndex | Open → | |
| Supported | WITSML 2.0 log ingest wired into live-pumping transport picker | Open → | |
| Supported | WebGPU volume ray-march + marching-cubes iso-surface + async probe-at-cursor with epoch guard + Timeline4D scrubber + shareable playback URL | Open → | |
| Supported | Three cards mounted on /live-pumping (EntryFrictionHistogramCard · PreClosureInterpreterCard · FluidFrontPlayerCard) + free public /tools/dfit-interpreter with pre-closure regime classifier and step-down mini-tool. Sprint 1a. | Open → | |
| Supported | Inverts DAS intake fractions to ε_i and feeds PKN L_i/L_mean=(V/V̄)^(2/3)·ε^(1/3); mounted under the DAS section | Open → | |
| Workflow & reporting | |||
| Supported | T1-T5 sweep + per-algorithm penalty catalog + Pareto frontier | Open → | |
| Supported | Crew / pump / sand pools + zipper-stagger + surrogate-tuned | Open → | |
| Supported | OFAT sweep + diagnostic tornado + Find-Optimum + cohort rollup | Open → | |
| Supported | Wellbore-sensitivity route · Quick 5-factor tornado + Custom factor-picker · per-workspace depth persistence | Open → | |
| Supported | Calibration PDF + 17-section FracPro-2021 parity + Subpart RR | Open → | |
| Supported | Git-style fork tree + per-leaf author/version attribution | Open → | |
| Supported | ⌘K palette + Gemini-backed copilot picks above lexical matches | Open → | |
| Supported | Hands-free command intake from any route | Open → | |
| Supported | Dieterich rate response + OK_CC / KS_CC / TX_RRC presets + audit log | Open → | |
| Supported | Hash-chained ledger + Subpart RR PDF + field cross-check | Open → | |
| Supported | Find optimum (NM+PSO) · Pareto sweep · per-algorithm penalties · surrogate auto-tuner | Open → | |
| Supported | parent-child poroelastic + multi-pad scheduler + artificial-lift allocator | Open → | |
| Supported | Fleet-prior tightening + Gemini copilot picks + surrogate response-surface OFAT | Open → | |
| Supported | Four peer-reviewed HF benchmarks with numeric residuals, citations, and PDF export | Open → | |
| Supported | In-app HSE incident logging, hazard checklists, and daily HSE report export | Open → | |
| Supported | Node CLI + Python SDK: workflow JSON runner, importers (LAS3, GRDECL, RESQML, WITSML2, ProdML, Pipesim, Eclipse RSM), exporters (RESQML, VTU, FracPro, CMG IMEX, Aries) | Open → | |
| Supported | Five 2024-2026 mandates rolled into the existing MRV/TLP infra with one-click exports | Open → | |
| Supported | SKIP LOCKED FIFO claiming, per-team concurrency lanes, queue-health card, retry/backoff, p90 SLOs with root-cause labelling; unlimited compute by default | Open → | |
| Supported | Suggested studies ranked from containment / tip-regime / screen-out / offset-interference signals; engineer approves before anything queues | Open → | |
| Supported | Agentic sweep designer emits a reviewable batch spec; no run is queued without approval | Open → | |
| Supported | Drift watcher proposes clamped parameter updates with RMSE-before/after, bias and observation counts; accepted updates are recorded with a lineage digest | Open → | |
| Supported | Deterministic markdown notice: evidence, materiality band, per-programme relevance across the five regulatory-pack-v2 modules, verifiable lineage digest | Open → | |
| Supported | Lexical + semantic recall over prior batches, designs and outcomes with citations back to the run | Open → | |
| Supported | Every agent turn carries a digest over its inputs, a replay diff against the stored trace, and an exportable audit trail | Open → | |
| Supported | Ten typed MCP tools incl. search_prior_studies, propose_sweep and interpret_batch, each team-authorised and rate-limited | Open → | |
| Supported | Cinematic render tiers, figure-mode export, versioned scene links, panel field-data CSV/JSON, OOM-safe chunked animation capture | Open → | |
| Supported | Settings-signature batching, Kahn dependency waves, retry/backoff with blocked-dependent cascade, locked schedule CSV | Open → | |
| Supported | Every advertised capability is checked against the code path that delivers it, exported as a CI snapshot | Open → | |
| Supported | Monotonicity / scaling / symmetry / conservation relations with per-family tolerance bands and evidence CSV | Open → | |
| Supported | PDE/BC/IC residual training against transient pressure diffusion, gated promotion, persisted run log + CSV | Open → | |
75 / 75 rows
Groups:
| Capability | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frac physics | ||||||||
| Planar 3D fracture solver | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Non-planar 3D w/ tip kinking + T-junction weld | ✓ | ✓ | ⚠ | ✗ | ⚠ | ✗ | ⚠ | ✗ |
| Phase-field / DEM laminated shale | ✓ | ⚠ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Horizontal / bedding-plane fractures | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ⚠ | ✗ |
| Full poroelastic stress tensor (Δσh/ΔσH/Δσv + shear) | ✓ | ✓ | ⚠ | ✗ | ⚠ | ✗ | ⚠ | ✗ |
| 3D Mindlin layered poroelastic (multi-bench) | ✓ | ⚠ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ⚠ | ✗ |
| Thermo-poro-mechanical-hydraulic coupling | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ⚠ | ✗ |
| UFM-class discrete-fracture-network | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ⚠ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Probabilistic geometry (P10/P50/P90 + Cf + P_treat) | ✓ | ⚠ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Cohesive-zone tip physics with typed error contract | ✓ | ⚠ | ✗ | ✗ | ⚠ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| XFEM / peridynamics solver track | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Drucker-Prager cap plasticity (compaction / pore-collapse) | ✓ | ⚠ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ⚠ | ✗ |
| Reservoir & coupling | ||||||||
| Black-oil 3-phase IMPES kernel | ✓ | ✓ | ⚠ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Compositional EOS bridge (energized-CO₂) | ✓ | ⚠ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ⚠ | ✗ |
| Black-oil tracers w/ PVT partitioning | ✓ | ⚠ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ⚠ | ✗ |
| Stress-dependent permeability w/ hysteresis | ✓ | ✓ | ⚠ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Rel-perm + Pc (Corey / LET / Stone II / Brooks-Corey) | ✓ | ✓ | ⚠ | ✗ | ⚠ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Grid-convergence harness w/ observed order p | ✓ | ⚠ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| RESQML EPC export w/ schema validator + golden fixture | ✓ | ⚠ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ |
| GRDECL (Eclipse) export | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | — | — | — | ✓ | — |
| PH / PS flash + hydrate curve for choke & geothermal advisors | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ⚠ | ✗ |
| Per-layer heterogeneous rock-property CSV import/export | ✓ | ⚠ | ⚠ | ✗ | ⚠ | ✗ | ⚠ | ✗ |
| Two-way parent-depletion ↔ child-frac-growth loop (Δσ_h feedback into the child growth kernel each timestep + SWPM residual → pump-rate advisory) | ✓ | ⚠ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ⚠ | ✗ |
| EDFM + MINC hybrid solver (embedded DFN + multiple-interacting-continua transfer in a single linear-system solve) | ✓ | ⚠ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ⚠ | ✗ |
| PVT consortium presets (named EoS + tuning parameters for Wolfcamp / Bakken / Eagle Ford / Marcellus / Montney / Vaca Muerta) | ✓ | ⚠ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ⚠ | ✗ |
| PGD-NO high-resolution field surrogate (linear memory scaling) | ✓ | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Wellbore & ops | ||||||||
| Transient single-phase wellbore (1-D segmented) | ✓ | ✓ | ⚠ | ⚠ | ⚠ | ✓ | ✓ | ⚠ |
| Drift-flux multiphase + Standing-Katz Z(p,T) | ✓ | ⚠ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ⚠ | ⚠ | ✗ |
| Safe mud-weight window (Kirsch + Mohr-Coulomb) | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | — | ✗ | ✗ |
| Artificial-lift design (gas-lift · ESP · rod · plunger) | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | — | ⚠ | ✗ |
| Coiled-tubing & snubbing ops | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ⚠ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Plug-and-perf ops planner | ✓ | ⚠ | ⚠ | ⚠ | ⚠ | ✓ | ✓ | ⚠ |
| Completion equipment database (API 5CT catalog) | ✓ | ⚠ | ✓ | ✓ | ⚠ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Automatic tubing-catalog selection | ✓ | ✗ | ⚠ | ⚠ | ✗ | ✓ | ⚠ | ⚠ |
| Beggs-Brill multiphase wellbore Δp | ✓ | ⚠ | ✓ | ⚠ | ⚠ | ✓ | ✓ | ⚠ |
| Diagnostics | ||||||||
| Live pumping (Nolte-Smith / Decline / Step-down / ISIP) | ✓ | ⚠ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| DAS / DTS waterfall + closed-loop pump control | ✓ | ⚠ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ⚠ | ✗ |
| Microseismic moment-tensor inversion → DFN | ✓ | ⚠ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ⚠ | ✗ |
| DFIT analyzer (G-function / √t / log-log) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ⚠ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Parent-child frac-hit volumetrics + child-bend coupling | ✓ | ✓ | ⚠ | ✗ | ⚠ | ✗ | ⚠ | ✗ |
| Advanced fracture diagnostics (DFIT + Nolte-Smith + decline + step-down + ISIP) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| WITSML 2.0 telemetry ingest | ✓ | — | ⚠ | ⚠ | ✗ | ⚠ | ⚠ | ✗ |
| In-browser 3D/4D reservoir viewer (WebGPU volume ray-march, iso-surface compute pass, timeline scrubber, focal-mechanism beachballs, shareable-URL playback) | ✓ | ⚠ | ⚠ | ✗ | ⚠ | ✗ | ⚠ | ✗ |
| Live+ diagnostics pack (step-down inverter · entry-friction P10/P50/P90 · DFIT pre-closure regime classifier · wellbore fluid-front animator) with free public /tools/dfit-interpreter | ✓ | ⚠ | ⚠ | ⚠ | ✗ | ✗ | ⚠ | ✗ |
| DAS → cluster ε → fracture-geometry inversion (per-cluster half-length from live DAS intake fractions) | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Workflow & reporting | ||||||||
| Automated optimization (NM / PSO / Bayesian + Pareto) | ✓ | ⚠ | ⚠ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ⚠ | ✗ |
| Multi-well pad scheduler (resource-constrained Gantt) | ✓ | ⚠ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ⚠ | ⚠ | ✗ |
| Sensitivity studies (OFAT + tornado + cross-plots + breakeven) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ⚠ | ✓ | ⚠ | ✓ | ⚠ |
| Domain-scoped sensitivity depth ladder (well-path / completion / tubing) | ✓ | ⚠ | ⚠ | ⚠ | ⚠ | ✓ | ⚠ | ✗ |
| Custom report templates (PDF + CSV) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Scenario branching tree w/ cell-level blame | ✓ | ⚠ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ⚠ | ✗ |
| LLM copilot command palette (natural-language) | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Voice-first ⌘K (Web Speech intake) | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Induced-seismicity TLP w/ regulator presets | ✓ | ⚠ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| CCUS / MRV Subpart RR reporting | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Automated design optimization (NM / PSO / Bayesian) | ✓ | ✓ | ⚠ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ⚠ |
| Multi-well & pad analysis (parent-child + zipper + allocation) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| AI-assisted design parameter recommendations | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ⚠ | ⚠ | ✗ |
| Published-paper benchmark suite (Hu 2023 · RMRE 2025 · Fu 2013 · UXFEM 2023) | ✓ | ⚠ | ✗ | ✗ | ⚠ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| HSE monitor — incident log, hazard checklists, daily reports | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Headless CLI + Python SDK (workflow JSON, RESQML/GRDECL/FracPro/CMG/Aries export) | ✓ | ⚠ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ⚠ | ✗ |
| Regulatory pack v2 (Subpart W CH₄ + XML export · OGMP 2.0 Level 4/5 · CO ECMC CIDER · NM_OCD TLP · CA LCFS) | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| 100+ concurrent cloud runs per team (FIFO queue, per-team lanes, advisory latency SLOs) | ✓ | ⚠ | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Always-on agent that proposes the next study from run signals | ✓ | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Prompt-to-batch sweep designer (plain sentence → ranked parameter study) | ✓ | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Continuous auto-calibration from field-curve drift (clamped, evidence-backed) | ✓ | ⚠ | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Plain-language regulatory change notice generated from an accepted calibration | ✓ | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Institutional memory — hybrid search over the team's prior studies | ✓ | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Agent-verifiable answers (provenance digest + replay diff + audit CSV) | ✓ | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| MCP tool surface for external copilots (search / propose / interpret) | ✓ | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Publication-grade 3D/4D: uncertainty envelopes, stress-shadow sheets, auto callouts, shareable scene links, GIF/MP4 time-lapse | ✓ | ⚠ | ⚠ | ⚠ | ⚠ | — | ⚠ | — |
| Pad run orchestrator (dependency waves, concurrency lanes, retry cascade) | ✓ | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Machine-checked capability claims (truth audit + CI snapshot) | ✓ | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Metamorphic physics verification (relation checks on every run) | ✓ | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Label-free physics-driven training with promotion gating | ✓ | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
How each vendor’s score is computed
Every cell in the matrix contributes a weight based on its mark: ✓ full = 1.0, ⚠ partial = 0.5, ✗ missing = 0.0. Cells marked — N/A are removed from both the numerator and the denominator, so a vendor is never penalised for capabilities we could not verify against a public source or that fall outside their stated scope.
- Score % = weighted points ÷ counted rows — grade on the apples-to-apples subset.
- Coverage % = counted rows ÷ total rows — how much of the matrix actually applies to that vendor.
| Vendor | Score | Coverage | ✓ / ⚠ / ✗ / — |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wellbore Geniusthis product | 100% (75.0/75) | 100% (75/75) | 75 / 0 / 0 / 0 |
| ResFrac | 54% (34.0/63) | 84% (63/75) | 18 / 32 / 13 / 12 |
| Kinetix | 52% (32.5/62) | 83% (62/75) | 18 / 29 / 15 / 13 |
| Gohfer | 31% (19.5/62) | 83% (62/75) | 11 / 17 / 34 / 13 |
| FracCADE | 27% (15.5/58) | 77% (58/75) | 12 / 7 / 39 / 17 |
| StimPlan | 25% (15.5/61) | 81% (61/75) | 8 / 15 / 38 / 14 |
| FracPro | 20% (12.5/61) | 81% (61/75) | 8 / 9 / 44 / 14 |
| MFrac | 17% (10.0/60) | 80% (60/75) | 7 / 6 / 47 / 15 |
Why these numbers don’t drift between releases
The underlying matrix is locked by a regression suite (competitorMatrixRegression.test.ts). It pins the exact row count, the row IDs, the competitor column order, the four sanctioned cell tokens (Y / P / N / —), and a byte-level SHA-256 hash of the CSV export. Any accidental edit — a re-ordered vendor, a duplicated row, an unsanctioned mark, a stray whitespace — fails CI before it can ship. That means the score you see above can only move when someone deliberately edits CAPABILITY_ROWS or COMPETITORS and updates the pinned snapshot in the same commit.
Methodology & sources
Capabilities are coded with four marks: ✓ full, ⚠ partial (covered with known limitations or in beta), ✗ missing, and — N/A or unverified. We do not mark a competitor ✗ for a capability we cannot verify against a public source — those become — with a footnote so visitors can request a correction.
Every Wellbore Genius ✓ cell links to the live in-app route that delivers the capability — click the cell to verify. Every non-N/A competitor cell links to the vendor's public product page or a peer-reviewed SPE / URTeC reference.
Sources & last-verified dates
- ResFrac — ResFrac Corp. · verified 2026-08-12
- Gohfer — Halliburton · verified 2026-08-12
- FracPro — CARBO / StrataGen · verified 2026-08-12
- StimPlan — NSI Technologies · verified 2026-08-12
- FracCADE — SLB · verified 2026-08-12
- Kinetix — SLB · verified 2026-08-12
- MFrac — Baker Hughes / Meyer · verified 2026-08-12
Spot something wrong? Email a correction. We update the matrix on a rolling basis.