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Chocolatey vs Conan

Chocolatey

chocolatey.org

Conan

conan.io

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FigureChocolateyConan
Price from$1.50/moFree
Free planYesYes
Free trial——
Open source——
WindowsYesYes
macOSYesYes
LinuxYesYes
iOS—Yes
Android—Yes
Plans published42
Spec score · Package Managers9.1 (#2)9.0 (#3)
Dependency resolutionYesYes
Free planYesYes
Lockfile supportYesYes
Offline installationYesYes
Package formatsnupkg,nuspec,packages.configConan recipes and binary packages
Private registry authYesYes
Supported platformsWindows; Linux; macOSLinux,Windows,macOS,Android,iOS,embedded and bare-metal targets

Plans

Chocolatey

  • Open SourceFree
  • Pro$96 a year
  • Business (C4B)$18 a year
  • Chocolatey for Business PerpetualPriced on request

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Conan

  • ConanFree
  • Artifactory Community EditionFree

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Chocolatey

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Conan

Conan is a free, open-source package manager for C and C++ projects. It manages dependencies and binary packages through Conan recipes, with dependency resolution, lockfiles, workspaces, private registry authentication and offline installation. Binary configurations can vary by architecture, compiler and version, runtime, and C++ standard library. If a matching binary is unavailable, Conan can build from source on demand. It supports Windows, Linux, macOS, Android, iOS, embedded and bare-metal targets, as well as desktop, server and mobile platforms. Build integrations include CMake, MSBuild, Makefiles, Meson and SCons; other integrations include Docker, MinGW, WSL and JFrog Artifactory. Teams can share and reuse native binaries. Artifactory Community Edition offers self-hosted private package hosting, with a WebUI, authentication and permissions. Conan is released under the MIT License. The listed plan describes the package manager as free and open source; no price is stated for either plan.

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