--- title: "Anaconda Reviews, Pros and Cons - 2026 Software Advice" description: "Reviews of Anaconda. Learn how real users rate this software's ease-of-use, functionality, overall quality and customer support. Talk to our advisors to see if Anaconda is a good fit for you!" source_url: "https://www.softwareadvice.com/machine-learning/anaconda-profile/reviews/" page_type: "reviews" language: "en" --- 1 million+ businesses helped. Get advice Get Free Advice [Home](https://www.softwareadvice.com/) / [Dashboard Software](https://www.softwareadvice.com/bi/dashboard-comparison/) / [Anaconda](https://www.softwareadvice.com/machine-learning/anaconda-profile/) / Anaconda Reviews Software Advice offers objective insights based on verified user reviews and independent product and market research. When our advisors match you to a software provider, we may earn a referral fee. [Overview](https://www.softwareadvice.com/machine-learning/anaconda-profile/) Reviews [Alternatives](https://www.softwareadvice.com/machine-learning/anaconda-profile/alternatives/) # Anaconda User Reviews ## Reviews summary - Overall rating: 4.6/5 - Total reviews: 87 ### Secondary ratings - Ease of use: 4.4/5 - Customer support: 4.0/5 - Value for money: 4.6/5 - Functionality: 4.6/5 ### Rating distribution - 5 stars: 58 reviews (67%) - 4 stars: 25 reviews (29%) - 3 stars: 4 reviews (5%) - 2 stars: 0 reviews (0%) - 1 star: 0 reviews (0%) ### Most mentioned pros - It saves time, reduces setup issues, and lets me focus more on learning and building projects rather than fixing environment problems. - The free version offers a lot, especially for students and individual users, which makes it very cost-effective. - As a data scientist, we all know and have use anaconda because it provide every element needed to help us develop our projet. ### Most mentioned cons - It is to slowly for oldest computers and take a lot of resources like memory or CPU - The GUI runs a little slow on my basic personal computer. - Although it supports multiple applications it can be bulky, which in turn can make your code execution slow if you have a low end system ## Anaconda customer reviews Showing reviews 1-25 of 87 (page 1). ### Still a Great Tool! - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Essence W. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Education Management - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 6 months - Reviewed: March 2026 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I enjoy using Ananconda when practicing code in Python and R and sharing notebooks with others. Especially as someone who uses machine learning often its quite helpful #### Cons It is a definitely a learning curve and now that I often use databricks I don't often use it as much. --- ### Excellente to start coding! - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Alejandro A. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Higher Education - Company size: 201-500 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months - Reviewed: March 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Is great! Using multiple softwares in one is the best feature, because some libraries are for r and another for python. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros The interfase is great! You can adapt your screen as you like, and use more features than most of softwares, like python and r. #### Cons There is so much to learn about it that it take time to learn everything. #### Reasons for switching to Anaconda Anaconda integrate rstudio in its libraries and can be more intuitive. --- ### Python distribution - Overall rating: 3/5 - Reviewer: abir m. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Professional Training & Coaching - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: March 2024 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros It contains almost all the python IDE. Once we download Anaconda all the most needed libraries are already installed. #### Cons When I installed Numpy and Pandas libraries they weren't working on "Pycharm" even when they were working in "VS Code" --- ### Anaconda, the virtual environment MASTER - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Austin M. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Pharmaceuticals - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: September 2023 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered The best thing about Anaconda is that if you break something in an environment, it doesn't replicate to the rest of them, so you can rest assured that you can test things in a safe environment. That feature alone enables you and your team to be even more productive. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I think the most impactful thing about Anaconda is the freedom to choose what do you want to install on your virtual environments, each and every one is separated like a capsule, providing excellent support on each of those individually. #### Cons I think the first installation of Anaconda could be more user-friendly, sometimes when you first start it could cost to implement but when you start using it, it becomes amazingly powerful. --- ### Preloaded Development Tool - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Divyang S. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 201-500 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 12 months - Reviewed: July 2020 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Industry which recruits new comers more or starting new branch in data science especially, this tool can be boon to them. Very easy for beginners to get along and all-in-one package which is also compact in size. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Most of the tools like PyCharm or Eclipse etc. requires to download packages when you need during development like numpy, panda more if you need, and many new trainees face problem while setting up the dependencies. Anaconda isnsaviour for them. With already loaded packages that are frequently used and it also helps to set up dependencies in future. Setting up Anaconda and its components like Jupiter Notebook are quite easy with many tutorials available online, but even without that installation is easy. Along with Python, it supports many other popular language like R. Community support is great. #### Cons Heavy load on memory and cpu on start up. Hence, specifications need to be above average if you are using for personal use. Many functionalities are provided for free but other complex functionalities specially in the field of data science and analyticsy, it require to purchase premium services. If your code get about few hundreds of lines, it might be difficult to navigate to specific module. Need some changes like Sublime to see the text zoomed out so it would be easy to find the part in a code. --- ### Best ide for learning python - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Edson H. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Education Management - Company size: 1001-5000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months - Reviewed: October 2020 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. When l first started learning python l didn't know what l would like to learn either basic python, data science, machine learning hence all l needed was a software which can cater for any needs since l have limited internet access to download and this software seemed to be all l needed #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros It has all ide for learning and programming with python hence a single download will cover all your python needs. It has both free and paid versions to cater for both enterprises and students who are interested in using python. Small file size Can run on low end systems without hindering quality #### Cons There is nothing that l least like about this software #### Reasons for switching to Anaconda It lacked some features that l needed --- ### Best IDE for Python Programming - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Michael M. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: May 2020 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Anaconda gives me so much flexibility and I don't know what I would do without it. It is my preferred software when it comes to programming Softwares. I have used it for a while now and I am very much pleased with its functionality. The fact that is is actively supported and updated is another plus for me. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I have used Anaconda base application for all my Python programming as it offers me all the plugins that I need for coding. It gives an interface to install all the plugins in a user-friendly way. The ability to use anaconda with many other IDE is another thing that has drawn me to Anaconda. I could use it with PyCharm or Spyder. #### Cons Nothing that I can think of in terms of what I like least. --- ### Very easy to use! - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Özge K. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Non-Profit Organization Management - Company size: 201-500 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months - Reviewed: September 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros It is the software that has the icon that I use the most with it responding to multiple needs. Saved my life with jupyter notebook. I also love the color screen. For me, who has just started learning software, the fact that it looked good in the first place motivated me. I'm using it on maCos, it came installed with all the tools. This has been pretty easy for me. #### Cons I think the minus aspect is that there are a lot of programs/libraries that will not be used in it. Unnecessary space on the computer may result in removing unused packages. --- ### About Anaconda - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Dr Shafi S. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Education Management - Company size: 10000+ employees - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: August 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Thats really amazing tool, for me working on python is very easy over this tool. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros It is best tool for implementation of the Machine learning and Data science. I use this for Python development. #### Cons This software isn't good for slow machines. --- ### One of the promising IDEs to learn R language and performing Data analyses - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Ali Qammar R. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Banking - Company size: 501-1000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months - Reviewed: June 2021 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Overall experience is good. There are countless libraries that you can install and work with them to perform tasks related to your business domain. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros We used Anaconda in one of the largest banks in Pakistan. We used R language to perform data analyses including data cleansing, data analyses and future predictions. It is very easy to use and you can install it in your personal computer without any hurdles. It also has a lot of libraries that you can install without any issues. #### Cons it has some errors while installing new packages like PyViz packages. Also if you open the Jupyter Lab in chrome browser, You will get error while downloading the files. --- ### Cohesive and Practical - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Leslie H. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: November 2024 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Easy to create environments and coordinate packages. #### Cons The GUI runs a little slow on my basic personal computer. --- ### Anaconda Review - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Moustafa M. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Biotechnology - Company size: 10000+ employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: July 2023 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered My overall experience with Anaconda is really very good for developing AI models and do some analytics. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros I like that Anaconda provides the Anaconda prompt tool which enables me to install the packages and libraries I want using the terminal. I like that I can create an endless number of virtual environments on Anaconda where each one of them is related to a certain project. Also, I like that Anaconda is offering some learning tutorial for beginners on how to use it efficiently. #### Cons It takes very long time when switching between 2 environments inside Anaconda. There is no cloud or sync option to help me if I am using Anaconda on multiple devices. Also, I do not like the interface of Anaconda navigator and that I cannot switch to dark mode. --- ### Makes the Environment Management Efficiently - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Automotive - Company size: 10000+ employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: February 2020 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. I use Anaconda daily for my software projects to organize the environments efficiently for more than 2 years. It comes with many popular tools (e.g. glueviz, orange) for data science projects/tasks. It's very stable in general however it may lead some crashes time to time #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Organizes different environments (for example tensorflow environment for our computer vision projects) for different project and different tasks easily and efficiently Once you update or set an environment, related updates are done Comes with very popular and efficient programs #### Cons Sometimes it crashes without any warning or notification. If this is the case, I would very very like to know why that crash happened. Deleting an environment may lead some problems --- ### Toolkit for Data Science 101 - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Meliksah T. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Consumer Electronics - Company size: 5001-10000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: September 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. I use Anaconda for 2 years with great satisfaction. It lacks some packages but that's still fine, it has so much credit already. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros It comes with fundamental Python libraries for Data Science and Machine Learning such as Pandas for data manipulation, NumPy for linear algebra, Sci-kit Learn for machine learning algorithms, SciPy for statistics tools. This is simply the starter kid. It eases the burden of newbies, removing the effort to install all these manually. Not to mention it comes with the most important data science tool Jupyter Notebook. #### Cons It does not contain some packages such as XGBoost, CatBoost, LightGBM, Imbalanced-Learn, MLXtend, etc. These are maybe not Data Science 101 but 201 packages that are needed for more advanced needs. --- ### Anaconda review - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: 10000+ employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: September 2023 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Very good interface to use other computer software and library such as spyder #### Cons It could be more user friendly in terms of user interface --- ### The best Python package manager ever - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Youssef A. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: 201-500 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: August 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. I use anaconda for years and I highly recommend the product for your data science and python projects. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Thanks to Anaconda I can handle multiple python environments and projects easily. Also, it has many extensions such as jupyter notebook, jupyter lab, vscode and R support. #### Cons I am very satisfied with the product and I don't see any limitations. --- ### Create and manage virtual environment - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Barış T. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: E-Learning - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months - Reviewed: June 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered I can work with any IDE I want from within the application. I usually used Pycharm, if you want you can use spyder, Jupyternotebook or something. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros The application is very easy to use. The interface is user-friendly and simple. It contains documents and instructional videos, which are very useful. #### Cons There is no downside to the app. It can be used especially for python. #### Reasons for switching to Anaconda I wanted to use it for testing purposes. --- ### Anaconda review - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Civic & Social Organization - Company size: 501-1000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months - Reviewed: September 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. The application's access to other applications reveals a strong and integrated working system. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros The app does an overall good job of predictive modeling. #### Cons The application is integrated with other applications, but data on recent versions is scarce --- ### Great Product for Python Users - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Insurance - Company size: 1001-5000 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: August 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Used it to develop models in Python #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Great distribution, with installation and package management tools and a lot of packages to make developing much easier. #### Cons It takes some getting used to to navigate the environment. --- ### Great platform to use for coding - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Philippe M. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Financial Services - Company size: 501-1000 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: May 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Mostly using Anaconda for python coding in order to create data visualization that would not be possible on Excel. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros First off, Anaconda is extremely easy to use for all your potential coding needs without downloading a lot of different software. Secondly, it's a strong platform to used for any python coding necessary for work. #### Cons None, I have had zero issues with this software since I started using it. --- ### Amazing possibilites for all-levels users - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Kajetan W. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Marketing and Advertising - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months - Reviewed: May 2021 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Great platform for me as a beginner to play with all the amazing Python tools. It looks like a great choice for pros too but I can't tell for sure. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I like the fact I can have all the libraries and modes I need to be installed quickly and as an all-in-one tool. I'm a beginner with Python and I didn't know how to deal with it and Anaconda turned out to be a great solution. #### Cons It was not so obvious to install and I'm still not sure about all the functionalities. The tutorial materials could be more broad but on the other hand I use the free version for learning purposes so I shouldn't expect too much. #### Reasons for choosing Anaconda It seemed like the easiest solution and it was widely recommended all over the web. --- ### Beginner journey with Anaconda - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: saisri a. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Chemicals - Company size: 501-1000 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 12 months - Reviewed: March 2023 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Being a beginner enjoying doing my data science projects with help of Anaconda #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros All data science project required libraries are available in anaconda , being beginner can use it very ease #### Cons As of now i like its a great platform, will update the same in future --- ### Anaconda Review - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Riazuddin N. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Biotechnology - Company size: 10000+ employees - Product usage: Used monthly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: March 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros The best feature of this tool is its ease of implementation and install without any hassles. The other best thing is we can integrate R studio apart from the Python's Jupyter notebook so that we can actually work and code in R programming language #### Cons One thing I don't like is the dependencies to install few libraries and packages. The developers should make it more simple rather than complex so that even a non-IT guy can quickly grasp --- ### Great Software - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Christopher G. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Insurance - Company size: 1001-5000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months - Reviewed: June 2021 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Its a software where you can program in several languages, Anaconda has a lot of programs suchs like R Studio, Python, Orange and Jupyter Notebook. Its easy to use because has the opportunity to choose the enviroment, version and a lot of other setting that are very useful for everyone. #### Cons I dont consider that exist issues with this program, I only think the loading time would be better in some times and maybe would be more intuitive. --- ### Amazing software. - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Alessandro Alvise V. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 12 months - Reviewed: May 2021 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Great software, I have it saved in my tool bar and I use it often. Recommended. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Very nice and functional. I use it for python and the jupyter notebook works very well. It's my go-to software. #### Cons No issues identified. Through anaconda you have access to multiple softwares, if you already know you're not going to use some of them, it would be nice to remove them maybe. ## More reviews [Next reviews](https://www.softwareadvice.com/machine-learning/anaconda-profile/reviews/?page=2) --- Anaconda Reviews, Pros and Cons - 2026 Software Advice