Conda AlternativesPackage Managers and other similar apps like Conda

Apps similar to Conda include Anaconda, which is free for personal use. Other options are pixi, PyPI, Poetry and pip. You can choose from more than 10 Package Managers like Conda for Mac, Windows, Linux, the web and self-hosting.

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  1. Anaconda icon
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    Completely free enterprise-ready Python distribution for large-scale data processing, predictive analytics, and scientific computing. Includes 100+ of the most popular Python packages for science, math, engineering, data analysis. Cross platform on Linux, Windows, Mac.

    24 Anaconda alternatives

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    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
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  2. pixi icon
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    Powerful system-level package manager for Linux, macOS and Windows written in Rust – building on top of the Conda ecosystem.

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    • Windows
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  3. PyPI icon
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    The Python Package Index (PyPI) is a repository of software for the Python programming language. PyPI helps you find and install software developed and shared by the Python community. Package authors use PyPI to distribute their software.

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  4. Poetry icon
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    Poetry helps you declare, manage and install dependencies of Python projects, ensuring you have the right stack everywhere. It's commands are intuitive and easy to use, with sensible defaults while still being configurable.

    14 Poetry alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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  5.  5 likes

    The PyPA recommended tool for installing Python packages.

    15 pip alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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  6. pipx icon
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    pipx is a tool to help you install and run end-user applications written in Python. It's roughly similar to macOS's brew, JavaScript's npx, and Linux's apt.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
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  7. Conan icon
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    The open source, decentralized and multi-platform package manager to create and share all your native binaries.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
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  8. Mamba icon
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    Mamba is a significantly faster drop-in replacement for the popular Conda environment manager.

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    Creating an environment from a file
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  9. Miniconda icon
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    Miniconda is a free minimal installer for conda. It is a small bootstrap version of Anaconda that includes only conda, Python, the packages they both depend on, and a small number of other useful packages (like pip, zlib, and a few others).

    23 Miniconda alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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  10. Rust Cargo icon
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    Cargo is the Rust package manager. Cargo downloads your Rust package’s dependencies, compiles your packages, makes distributable packages, and uploads them to crates.io, the Rust community’s package registry.

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    • Rust
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  11. The Sublime Text package manager that makes it exceedingly simple to find, install and keep packages up-to-date.

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
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    • Self-Hosted
    • Sublime Text
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  12. PDM, as described, is a modern Python package and dependency manager supporting the latest PEP standards. But it is more than a package manager. It boosts your development workflow in various aspects. The most significant benefit is it installs and manages packages in a similar...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Mac
    • BSD
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