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How Wellbore Genius compares
44 capabilities across 8 frac simulators (7 competitors plus Wellbore Genius). Sortable, searchable, and sourced — every cell carries a footnote you can verify.
Design-parameter rebuttal → response to the “missing design parameters” review
Optimization & multi-well rebuttal → response to the “no automated optimization / no multi-well” review
| 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) | ✓ | ⚠ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| 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 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | — | — | — | ✓ | — |
| 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 | ✓ | ✗ | ⚠ | ⚠ | ✗ | ✓ | ⚠ | ⚠ |
| 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) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| 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 | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ⚠ | ⚠ | ✗ |
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 2026-06-22
- Gohfer — Halliburton · verified 2026-06-22
- FracPro — CARBO / StrataGen · verified 2026-06-22
- StimPlan — NSI Technologies · verified 2026-06-22
- FracCADE — SLB · verified 2026-06-22
- Kinetix — SLB · verified 2026-06-22
- MFrac — Baker Hughes / Meyer · verified 2026-06-22
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