Miniconda

Miniconda is a free minimal installer for conda. It is a small, bootstrap version of Anaconda that includes only conda, Python, the packages they depend on, and a small number of other useful packages, including pip, zlib and a few others. Use the conda install command to install 720+ additional conda packages from the Anaconda repository.

See if Miniconda is right for you.

System requirements

  • License: Free use and redistribution under the terms of the EULA for Miniconda.
  • Operating system: Windows 8 or newer, 64-bit macOS 10.13+, or Linux, including Ubuntu, RedHat, CentOS 7+, and others.
  • If your operating system is older than what is currently supported, you can find older versions of the Miniconda installers in our archive that might work for you.
  • System architecture: Windows- 64-bit x86, 32-bit x86; macOS- 64-bit x86 & Apple M1 (ARM64); Linux- 64-bit x86, 64-bit aarch64 (AWS Graviton2 / ARM64), 64-bit IBM Power8/Power9, s390x (Linux on IBM Z & LinuxONE).
  • The linux-aarch64 Miniconda installer requires glibc >=2.26 and thus will not work with CentOS 7, Ubuntu 16.04, or Debian 9 (“stretch”).
  • Minimum 400 MB disk space to download and install.

On Windows, macOS, and Linux, it is best to install Miniconda for the local user, which does not require administrator permissions and is the most robust type of installation. However, if you need to, you can install Miniconda system wide, which does require administrator permissions.

Windows installers

Windows
Python version Name Size SHA256 hash
Python 3.9 Miniconda3 Windows 64-bit 58.1 MiB b33797064593ab2229a0135dc69001bea05cb56a20c2f243b1231213642e260a
Python 3.8 Miniconda3 Windows 64-bit 57.3 MiB 8940cdd621557bc55743d6bb4518c6d343a4587127e76de808fb07e51df03fea
Python 3.7 Miniconda3 Windows 64-bit 55.8 MiB 9c031506bfcb0428a0ac46c9152f9bdd48d5bdaa83046691bf8e0a4480663c05
Python 3.9 Miniconda3 Windows 32-bit 55.3 MiB 24f438e57ff2ef1ce1e93050d4e9d13f5050955f759f448d84a4018d3cd12d6b
Python 3.8 Miniconda3 Windows 32-bit 54.5 MiB f81c165384c18d1986e2ba2f86cef384bc62266c46b34cd3d274e751ff5d91ed
Python 3.7 Miniconda3 Windows 32-bit 55.3 MiB a1bb8338be12ee09dbd4cab9dcc2fbdc99f65d99281dd2c07d24ad0f23dd1f7c

macOS installers

macOS
Python version Name Size SHA256 hash
Python 3.9 Miniconda3 macOS 64-bit bash 42.3 MiB 786de9721f43e2c7d2803144c635f5f6e4823483536dc141ccd82dbb927cd508
  Miniconda3 macOS 64-bit pkg 49.9 MiB 8fa371ae97218c3c005cd5f04b1f40156d1506a9bd1d5c078f89d563fd416816
Python 3.8 Miniconda3 macOS 64-bit bash 53.3 MiB 93e514e01142866629175f5a9e2e1d0bac8bc705f61d1ed1da3c010b7225683a
  Miniconda3 macOS 64-bit pkg 60.8 MiB faab44cd21b4b09f5c032aa49a8a23d3c53ef629dc9322411348ce413e41df35
  Miniconda3 macOS Apple M1 ARM 64-bit bash 44.9 MiB 4ce4047065f32e991edddbb63b3c7108e7f4534cfc1efafc332454a414deab58
Python 3.7 Miniconda3 macOS 64-bit bash 50.6 MiB ca7492d456c319d15682b2d3845112a631365f293d38d1f62872c33a2e57e430
  Miniconda3 macOS 64-bit pkg 58.1 MiB c3710f25748884741ef8d97777ebb3541c992d51130298830b5b9ad449dbbf1e

Linux installers

Linux
Python version Name Size SHA256 hash
Python 3.9 Miniconda3 Linux 64-bit 63.6 MiB 1ea2f885b4dbc3098662845560bc64271eb17085387a70c2ba3f29fff6f8d52f
  Miniconda3 Linux-aarch64 64-bit 62.6 MiB 4879820a10718743f945d88ef142c3a4b30dfc8e448d1ca08e019586374b773f
  Miniconda3 Linux-ppc64le 64-bit 60.6 MiB fa92ee4773611f58ed9333f977d32bbb64769292f605d518732183be1f3321fa
  Miniconda3 Linux-s390x 64-bit 57.1 MiB 1faed9abecf4a4ddd4e0d8891fc2cdaa3394c51e877af14ad6b9d4aadb4e90d8
Python 3.8 Miniconda3 Linux 64-bit 98.8 MiB 935d72deb16e42739d69644977290395561b7a6db059b316958d97939e9bdf3d
  Miniconda3 Linux-aarch64 64-bit 94.8 MiB 19584b4fb5c0656e0cf9de72aaa0b0a7991fbd6f1254d12e2119048c9a47e5cc
  Miniconda3 Linux-ppc64le 64-bit 93.3 MiB c1ac79540cb77b2e0ca5b9f78b3bc367567d810118500a167dea4a0bcab5d063
  Miniconda3 Linux-s390x 64-bit 89.0 MiB 55f514110a50e98549a68912cbb03e43a36193940a1889e1c8beb30009b4da19
Python 3.7 Miniconda3 Linux 64-bit 84.9 MiB a1a7285dea0edc430b2bc7951d89bb30a2a1b32026d2a7b02aacaaa95cf69c7c
  Miniconda3 Linux-aarch64 64-bit 89.2 MiB 65f400a906e3132ddbba35a38d619478be77d32210a2acab05133d92ba08f111
  Miniconda3 Linux-ppc64le 64-bit 88.1 MiB e4f8b4a5eb8da1badf0b0c91fd7ee25e39120d4d77443e7a1ef3661fd439a997
  Miniconda3 Linux-s390x 64-bit 84.1 MiB 7ab9f813dd84cb0951a2d755cd84708263ce4e03c656e65e2fa79ed0f024f0f7

Other resources

These Miniconda installers contain the conda package manager and Python. Once Miniconda is installed, you can use the conda command to install any other packages and create environments, etc. For example:

$ conda install numpy
...
$ conda create -n py3k anaconda python=3
...

There are two variants of the installer: Miniconda is Python 2 based and Miniconda3 is Python 3 based. Note that the choice of which Miniconda is installed only affects the root environment. Regardless of which version of Miniconda you install, you can still install both Python 2.x and Python 3.x environments.

The other difference is that the Python 3 version of Miniconda will default to Python 3 when creating new environments and building packages. So for instance, the behavior of:

$ conda create -n myenv python

will be to install Python 2.7 with the Python 2 Miniconda and to install Python 3.8 with the Python 3 Miniconda. You can override the default by explicitly setting python=2 or python=3. It also determines the default value of CONDA_PY when using conda build.

Note

If you already have Miniconda or Anaconda installed, and you just want to upgrade, you should not use the installer. Just use conda update.

For instance:

$ conda update conda

will update conda.