Private Packagist vs pypiserver
Private Packagist
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| Figure | Private Packagist | pypiserver |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | €15.58/mo | Free |
| Free plan | — | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | — |
| Windows | — | Yes |
| macOS | — | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 3 | 1 |
| Spec score · Package Registries | 7.9 (#15) | 8.3 (#11) |
| Spec score · Artifact repository software | 7.8 (#40) | 8.4 (#16) |
| Integrations | Organization synchronization is available for GitHub, Bitbucket, and GitLab, including synchronization of teams, members, permissions, and repositories. | The documentation shows integration with pip, easy_install, setuptools, twine, Docker, and reverse proxies including Nginx and Traefik. |
| Intended users | The company describes Private Packagist as providing businesses with functionality tailored to their requirements and offers solutions for agencies and vendors. | The project describes itself as a self-hosted package index for users who want to serve their own Python packages. |
| Purpose | Private Packagist makes private PHP repositories available through Composer and provides a controlled repository for package installs. | pypiserver is a minimal PyPI-compatible server for uploading and downloading Python packages with pip or easy_install. |
| Support | Cloud plans include email and chat support, and the pricing FAQ says messages sent by email or website chat receive a guaranteed next-business-day response. | The maintainers direct users to GitHub Discussions and a Zulip community chat, and direct bug reports to GitHub’s bug tracker. |
Plans
Private Packagist
- Private Packagist Cloud€187 a year
- Private Packagist Self-Hosted — Kubernetes, Helm Chart€3,900 a year
- Private Packagist Self-Hosted — Kubernetes, Kots€5,900 a year
In their own words
Private Packagist
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pypiserver
pypiserver is a minimal, self-hosted package index for uploading and downloading Python packages with tools such as pip and easy_install. It serves packages from regular directories, including wheels, bdists, eggs and PGP signatures, and scans those directories recursively. Packages can be uploaded with pip, setuptools, twine or pypi-uploader, or copied to the server with scp. Upload access can be protected with an Apache htpasswd file; API users can configure custom authentication callables. The maintainers advise password protection for uploads, and the documentation recommends a reverse proxy to provide HTTPS. pypiserver can run as a WSGI application, with documented integrations for Docker, nginx, Apache, gunicorn and Paste. It provides a health endpoint that returns HTTP 200 when the service is running, with an option to configure the endpoint. The current version supports Python 3.10+ and PyPy3. It is free at free and is listed for Linux, macOS, Windows, API and self-hosted use. Its API covers the operations needed by common package tools rather than the full PyPI API; documentation uploads are accepted but not saved to disk.