Conan vs PDM
Conan
conan.io
PDM
pdm-project.orgSide by side
| Figure | Conan | PDM |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | — |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| iOS | Yes | — |
| Android | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 2 | 0 |
| Spec score · Package Managers | 9.0 (#3) | 7.8 (#44) |
| Dependency resolution | Yes | PDM provides a dependency resolver described as simple and fast, particularly for large binary distributions. |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Lockfile support | Yes | Yes |
| Offline installation | Yes | Yes |
| Package formats | Conan recipes and binary packages | wheel,sdist |
| Private registry auth | Yes | Yes |
| Operating Systems | Works with Windows, Linux, OSX, FreeBSD, and other operating systems. | PDM works on Windows, Linux and macOS. |
| Supported platforms | Linux,Windows,macOS,Android,iOS,embedded and bare-metal targets | Windows,Linux,macOS,Python 3.10+ |
| Workspace support | Yes | Yes |
Plans
In their own words
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.