Miniconda Alternatives

Miniconda is described as '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)' and is a Package Manager in the development category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Miniconda for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Python and BSD apps. The best Miniconda alternative is Anaconda. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Anaconda or PyPI. Other great apps like Miniconda are Conda, pandas, Polars and Poetry.

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    The PyPA recommended tool for installing Python packages.

    14 pip alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Python
     
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    Minimum bare bones portable python distribution with PyScripter as development environment. Contains no additional packages other than those provided with the official python setup from python.org.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  3. iD3 icon
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    iD3 is an open-source, cross-platform desktop IDE for D3.js development. It's designed to simplify data visualization with D3 and sports a Python based data management system and custom generated attribute controls.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Sublime Text
     
  5. Enthought icon
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    The Enthought Python Distribution provides scientists with a comprehensive set of tools to perform rigorous data analysis and visualization. Python, distinguished by its flexibility, coherence, and ease-of-use, is rapidly becoming the programming language of choice for...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
    • Enthought is the most popular commercial alternative to Miniconda.

    • Enthought is Paid and ProprietaryMiniconda is Free and Open Source
  6. Mamba icon
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    Mamba is a significantly faster drop-in replacement for the popular Conda environment manager.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    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

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Mac
    • BSD
     
  8. CuPy icon
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    CuPy is an open-source array library for GPU-accelerated computing with Python. CuPy utilizes CUDA Toolkit libraries including cuBLAS, cuRAND, cuSOLVER, cuSPARSE, cuFFT, cuDNN and NCCL to make full use of the GPU architecture.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Python
    • Mac
    • BSD
     
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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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Rust
     
  10. Crates.io icon
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    Instantly publish your crates and install them. Use the API to interact and find out more information about available crates. Become a contributor and enhance the site with your work.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Rust
    • Online
     
  11. Pipenv icon
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    Pipenv is a production-ready tool that aims to bring the best of all packaging worlds to the Python world. It harnesses Pipfile, pip, and virtualenv into one single command.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Python
    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
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