What is Anaconda?

Anaconda helps millions of data scientists, engineers, and researchers go from idea to result faster. Whether you’re training models, exploring datasets, automating pipelines, or teaching a class, Anaconda gives you a trusted foundation of curated packages, reproducible environments, and tools that work together out of the box. At the core of Anaconda is conda, an open-source package and environment manager. Conda handles installing software, resolving dependencies, and keeping your projects isolated from each other so that updating one project never breaks another.

Is Anaconda free for me?

For details on Anaconda Distribution, Miniconda, and Anaconda’s Terms of Service, see our Terms of Service.

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Anaconda installers

Anaconda provides two installers. Both include conda and full access to the Anaconda package repository.

• Anaconda Distribution installs conda, Python, Anaconda Navigator, and hundreds of popular data science and machine learning packages in a pre-built base environment. It is designed for users who want a complete, ready-to-use environment on day one.
• Miniconda installs only conda, Python, and their dependencies in a minimal base environment. It is designed for users who know what they need and prefer to keep their installation minimal.

For a detailed comparison, see Anaconda Distribution vs. Miniconda.