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 PyPI or Conda. Other great apps like Miniconda are NumPy, Polars, pandas and Pyodide.

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Miniconda is a free minimal installer for conda. It is a small bootstrap version of Anaconda that includes only conda,...

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Miniconda alternatives page was last updated Jun 19, 2025
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  1. pip

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    The PyPA recommended tool for installing Python packages.

    13 pip alternatives

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Python
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  2. Portable Python icon

    Portable 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.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows

    Portable Python Features

    1.  Portable

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  4. iD3 icon

    iD3

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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.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
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    Discontinued

    The official website is unavailable, and the last update was in September 2017.

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  5. Package Control

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

    License model

    • Free • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Sublime Text

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    Enthought

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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...

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    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

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    • Enthought is the most popular commercial alternative to Miniconda.

    • Enthought is Paid and ProprietaryMiniconda is Free and Open Source
  7. Mamba icon

    Mamba

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

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    Creating an environment from a file

    Mamba Features

    1.  Command line interface
    2.  Ad-free
    3.  Portable

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  9. PDM - Python Dependency Manager icon

    PDM - Python Dependency Manager

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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...

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Mac
    • BSD

    PDM - Python Dependency Manager Features

    1.  Workflow

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  10. CuPy icon

    CuPy

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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.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • JP flagJapan

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Python
    • Mac
    • BSD

    CuPy Features

    1.  Ad-free
    2.  Python-based

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    Rust Cargo

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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.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Rust

    Rust Cargo Features

    1.  Rust

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    Pipenv

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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.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Country of Origin

    • International

    Platforms

    • Python
    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD

    Pipenv Features

    1.  Supports Python
    2.  Python-based

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