Anaconda Legal
Welcome to Anaconda’s Legal Page. Here, you can access our standard agreements, policies, and terms governing the use of our Platform and Offerings, as well as our Privacy Center and Trust Center.
For the full text of the Anaconda Platform Terms of Service, click here.
Information about the legal agreements governing your use of Anaconda software products, including rights, restrictions, and obligations.
Details about eligibility requirements and special considerations for educational institutions using Anaconda for teaching and research.
Details about eligibility requirements for free use and special considerations for Research & Non-Profit Organizations using Anaconda.
Information about our data collection practices, your privacy rights, and how we protect your information in compliance with global regulations.
Overview of our security frameworks, compliance certifications, and risk management procedures that safeguard your data and applications.
A complete collection of Anaconda’s legal documents, usage guidelines, and compliance requirements for all platform users.
Frequently Asked Questions
We update our Terms of Service and policies from time to time to make sure they align with how we do business and to keep things clear for our customers. We also took to heart our community’s feedback and rewrote the terms with specific goals of clarity, accessibility, and transparency in mind. This update is focused on making it easier to understand who our terms apply to—specifically those purchasing online or accessing our different Offerings. We also clarified our legal language to be customer-friendly and more accessible, so our users know exactly what their legal obligations are when they are using our Platform and Offerings.
The Terms of Service will either explicitly mention where a product or service (an “Offering”) is subject to different terms, or it will be explained in more detail on our legal website. Rule of thumb: if a product or service has an “Offering Description,” it is subject to the Terms of Service. Our legal website is the best place to check for what products and services are subject to completely separate terms outside of the Terms of Service. Additionally, we are introducing a new conda-anaconda-tos plugin that provides clear notifications to you at the command line when you’re about to access Anaconda channels or packages that are covered by our Terms of Service. This plugin will be live in our installers on July 15, 2025.
Review the criteria in Section 2.1 of our Academic Policy. If you have questions about your eligibility after reviewing these criteria, please contact Anaconda Support for guidance.
Review the criteria in Section 2.1 of our Non-Profit and Research Policy. If you have questions about your eligibility after reviewing these criteria, please contact Anaconda Support for guidance.
No worries—your current order will remain subject to the terms that were in place when you made the purchase. Please note that while your order and terms aren’t currently changing, policies that have been recently updated, like our Acceptable Use Policy, will apply. If your future renewal or additional orders are subject to the new Terms of Service, it will be written on your order form with us. If you have any concerns, contact us, and we’ll make sure you have all the information you need.
You may have the ability to access Anaconda for free under our new Academic Policy. If your organization is eligible for free use but you currently have a paid plan and no longer want access to those paid features, please reach out to our Support Team for assistance. Please note, we are not able to offer refunds of previously paid subscription fees at this time.
Please refer to Section 5 (Users) of our Terms of Service for the full text relating to how we define Users. In summary, Users are both automated systems (such as AI agents) or humans that are accessing or using our Platform or Offerings. For purposes of determining how many Users your organization has, the count is affected by whether a User is “identified” (meaning that the User has a registered account with Anaconda or has enabled user identification) or “unidentified” (meaning that the User does not have a registered account with Anaconda nor has user identification enabled). Identified Users are counted as one User regardless of the number of devices the User is accessing from or their frequency of use of our Platform or Offerings. Unidentified Users are counted based on each instance of download or use of our Platform or Offerings. For more information relating to system scanning and counting your Users, please contact [email protected].
All versions of the Anaconda Distribution Installer downloaded prior to March 31, 2024 do not require a commercial license. Those installers are free to use by anyone. However, continued package updates and pulls from our current package Repository into the Anaconda Distribution Installer do require a commercial license. Any packages downloaded from the Repository prior to April 30, 2020 do not require a commercial license for continued use. Any updates to those downloaded packages, however, do require a commercial license if your organization is not eligible for free use of our Platform and Offerings.
No. Payment requirements in our Terms of Service do not apply to the user-uploaded packages and channels at anaconda.org, which includes the conda-forge channel. Anaconda does not build these packages. We host them as a free service to the community – something we’ve done for over 10 years. While commercial fees don’t apply, our Terms of Service do still apply to conda-forge, as they do for any third-party content we host, which is typically the case when an internet service provider hosts third-party content. For example, by using anaconda.org, users agree not to share content that is illegal, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, offensive, invades another’s privacy, or promotes bigotry, racism, hatred or harm against any individual or group. Please note, payment requirements do apply if you access the Anaconda-provided channels on anaconda.org.
Miniconda does not require a commercial license for organizations over 200 employees/contractors until it is used to gain access to package updates. Please note that Miniconda points to Anaconda’s Basic Repository to pull and update packages by default. Effective July 15, 2025, Users who download and use the newest release of Miniconda will be prompted with a notice that accessing the Anaconda Repositories requires acceptance of our Terms of Service via the command line.
No, it does not. Both Miniforge and Mambaforge are not provided by Anaconda, and both installers include conda package manager, which is separate from Anaconda’s Distribution Installer (Anaconda’s proprietary package manager). In addition, Miniforge and Mambaforge are configured out-of-the-box to connect to conda-forge, which is a channel in Anaconda.org that is not subject to our Terms of Service payment requirements.
No. conda (as detailed in this blog post) itself does not require a license. The Anaconda Distribution Installer is a separate piece of software and does require a commercial license for organizations over 200 employees/contractors.
Our Terms of Service changed to a commercial model on April 30, 2020 (blog post announcement linked). Downloading packages from the Repository after April 30, 2020 requires a commercial license for organizations over 200 employees/contractors (including Affiliates in this count), unless your organization is eligible for free use as detailed in our Terms of Service.