# Page 2 | Anaconda Reviews 2026. Verified Reviews, Pros & Cons | Capterra > Page 2 - Is Anaconda the right Machine Learning solution for you? Explore 86 verified user reviews from people in industries like yours to make a confident choice. Source: https://www.capterra.com/p/191760/Anaconda/reviews --- Anaconda 4.6 (86) [View alternatives](https://www.capterra.com/p/191760/Anaconda/alternatives/) Provider data verified by our Software Research team, and reviews moderated by our Reviews Verification team. [Learn more](https://www.capterra.com/our-story/) * * * Last updated March 13th, 2026 # Page 2 - Reviews of Anaconda ## Showing most helpful reviews Showing 26-50 of 86 Reviews Sort by: Most Helpful Rating Company Size Reviewer's Role Length of Use Frequency of Use VS Vikash S. Assistant professor Education Management Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Coding and Executing" August 1, 2024 5.0 Its easy to use ..and have multiple library functions pre installed in it Pros We can do multi-tasking , like its all in one for coding we can do Machine Learning, Data science and many more Cons It is mostly only for the data science field not for web development Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Analytics Consultant Consumer Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Anaconda Enterprise - Single Platform for Data Analysis and Modelling" October 28, 2021 5.0 Anaconda Enterprise is a virtual environment manager which is one of the most widely used tool in the world today for data science. Many of its competitors have either lacked the variability and customer support (example R) or are still in its initial stage of capturing the worldwide market (example Dataiku - potential competitor). Anaconda supports python programming language but also integrates RStudio seamlessly. It also integrates MS SQL Server and Oracle databases, thus making it easier to execute SQL queries. Anaconda supports multiple data science/machine learning libraries such as Pandas, NumPy, Scikit-learn, Matplotlib, etc. to perform various tasks such as statistical analysis, data mining, data exploration, feature engineering, and modelling. Pros Anaconda is a free and open source software which is extremely easy to install and carry out developer and analytics tasks. The Anaconda GUI is very user-friendly, whether it is the Spyder IDE, RStudio or the Jupyter Notebooks. Also, Anaconda integrates easily with other tools such as RStudio, Blue Prism RPA tool, etc. It has a vast network of supporting websites such as geeksforgeeks.com and stackoverflow.com that provides solutions to various complex issues in python/data science. Cons The major concern related to Anaconda is that it cannot handle large volumes of data. It takes a long time to upload large-sized datasets and computations consume too much RAM. Also, Anaconda does not provide the option to modify the processing speeds i.e. choosing GPU/TPU based on the runtime required for processing. Review Source Omar H. Machine learning engineer - Intern Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "An absolutely Brilliant piece of software !! " September 19, 2021 5.0 I have used anaconda throughout my degree and I still use it in my work today. It has been a pleasant experience I was able to hit the ground running relatively quickly and use it for my professional needs. Pros As a Machine learning engineer I use all the time in my work for performing various tasks. I love the fact that I get to use all software in a single centralized unit. In it I can find my all the different IDEs and tools such as Spyder, Jupyter Notebook, Jupyter lab, R Studio.....etc. I find this extremely convenient. Aside from that it allows me to create multiple virtual environments with very minimal effort through its fantastic UI (user interface) which keeps the whole process relatively simple. I would absolutely recommend this product to any Machine learning engineer or Data scientist. Cons I dislike the idea that it has slow start-up time. It is noteworthy to say that it is not a major issue but never the less. It is slow to start-up. Other than that there is no major issue. Review Source MM Moustafa M. AI Researcher Biotechnology Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Anaconda Review " July 14, 2023 4.0 My overall experience with Anaconda is really very good for developing AI models and do some analytics. 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. Review Source Austin M. Software Analyst Pharmaceuticals Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Anaconda, the virtual environment MASTER" September 29, 2023 5.0 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. 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. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Freelancer Computer Software Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Anaconda - a program that helped me very much." April 15, 2022 5.0 Since my beginnings in university I have been using it, and it is very difficult to do without it, because in most of your projects you will need it. Pros One of the most important features that anyone who will download Anaconda will talk about, is that several widely used applications are installed, One of the most important features that anyone who downloads Anaconda will talk about is that many widely used applications are installed, such as NumPy, Dusk , Pandas ,Matplotlib, and others. Anaconda is open source, also for programming languages such as Python, R, which are widely used in data science and big data analysis. Cons I think it's a bit slow when dealing with, unlike other programs I've dealt with. At first, your understanding of the software will be difficult, and then it will become very easy. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer AI Engineer Automotive Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Makes the Environment Management Efficiently" February 20, 2020 5.0 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 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 Review Source Divyang S. Web Developer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Preloaded Development Tool" July 21, 2020 4.0 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. 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. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Data Scientist Information Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Perfect platform for Data Science" October 6, 2021 4.0 Pros Anaconda is a great platform as it has everything one needs to do Data Science and Machine Learning. It gives one access to Jupyter Notebook, R Studio, Orange, etc via the interface where you can choose what you need to install. Spyder is a good IDE which is included with the package. The individual edition is fee of cost while there are other paid SaaS versions for the enterprise. It also has all the important Python open-source tools one needs such as NumPy, Matplotlib and Panda, along with all the libraries you need to do your work. They also provide access to documentation for the various services in case you are stuck somewhere. Cons Sometimes there are issues if you need to do something and it doesn't work with the current version of Python and this causes some frustration. On rare occasions, there is a bit of a lag. Some of the services consume a lot of resources randomly. Review Source Edson H. Student Education Management Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Best ide for learning python" October 26, 2020 5.0 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 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 Switched from [PyCharm](https://www.capterra.com/p/186625/PyCharm/) It lacked some features that l needed Review Source Michael M. Member Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Best IDE for Python Programming" May 10, 2020 5.0 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. 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. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Associate Banking Used the software for: 2+ years ### "La mejor distribución de python" December 4, 2022 5.0 Maravilloso, lo uso a diario para programar en el trabajo y no puedo estar más contento Pros Su fácil instalación, posibilidad de diferentes espacios según lo que estes haciendo, muy fácil instalar paquetes nuevos pero ya incluye la mayoría por defecto Cons Puede ser un poco lioso obtener permisos de administrador en tu empresa para instalarlo Review Source Özge K. Social Worker Non-Profit Organization Management Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Very easy to use!" September 15, 2022 4.0 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. Review Source aM abir M. Trainer Professional Training & Coaching Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Python distribution " March 15, 2024 3.0 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" Review Source MT Meliksah T. Engineer Consumer Electronics Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Toolkit for Data Science 101" September 6, 2019 5.0 I use Anaconda for 2 years with great satisfaction. It lacks some packages but that's still fine, it has so much credit already. 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. Review Source Dr Shafi S. Assistant professor Education Management Used the software for: 2+ years ### "About Anaconda" August 4, 2022 5.0 Thats really amazing tool, for me working on python is very easy over this tool. 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. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Powertrain electric control integrator Automotive Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "The best Python IDE " February 4, 2020 4.0 Overall I would recommend all programmers that code in the python language to use Anaconda. Pros The ease of use and the layout of the IDE. Other IDE are not programmer friendly but anaconda is. I especially love the documentation help that the IDE provides. It makes programming a lot easier. Cons The least I like about this software is nothing at all. I believe this is the best IDE out there for python. It also supports other programming languages too. It would be great if it could compile C++ too. Review Source Ali Qammar R. T24 Technical Analyst Banking Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "One of the promising IDEs to learn R language and performing Data analyses" June 17, 2021 5.0 Overall experience is good. There are countless libraries that you can install and work with them to perform tasks related to your business domain. 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. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer RnD engineer Computer Software Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Anaconda review" September 29, 2023 4.0 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 Review Source JJ Jibin J. Automation Engineer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Now python , Machine learning projects can be developed and implemented easily." September 23, 2022 3.0 One of the main problem we were facing Early is that, we need downloaded and install many tools separately, that may consume much memory space. But now all the things are available in a single platform. Now things are much easy to work with. Anaconda provides all the basic features that are necessary for developers. Pros Anaconda provides a complete package for scripting, The main and important thing is that Everything for developing projects are available at a single place. Jupiter notebook, spider, etc. are some helpful and useful tools available in Anaconda. The tool itself is faster and more efficient than others. Cons I didn't find anything to dislike, But sometimes the tool crashes in between working and reloading takes much time. Anyway, the customer support is good that they reply to our queries faster without any delay. Review Source Jimmy I. data analysit Computer Software Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "large package distributor " June 20, 2021 4.0 The interactivity has been very good, especially for the data science field as many packages for this industry are there, which allows for easy management of data. Pros anaconda is a very intuitive package management system, easy to handle, with very important visual qualities, it also has a very simple download formed, allows the creation of very easy programming environments as well as its management, Cons The new updates do not allow you to create programming environments with very old versions of Python, which is sometimes difficult, since the previous versions of the software had this functionality. Review Source shushant P. Data Scientist Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Review of Anaconda" February 16, 2021 4.0 Good overall experience with Anaconda. Pros Managing virtual environments is very easy and effective with Anaconda. We can also specify the version of python to use while creating a new virtual environment. Cons There are no such features I do not like about this software. Review Source FM Felipe M. Reserarcher Education Management Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Great platform for analysi tools" May 9, 2023 4.0 Overall it is a highly recommended tool for data analysis and development. Must have tool. Pros This is a great tool for data scientists and developers. Anaconda platform includes system that includes popular programming languages, libraries, and tools such as Jupyter Notebook, R, and Orange. It is easy to install and manage environments, and it allows for seamless collaboration across teams. Cons One downside is that it can take up a lot of space on your computer. Review Source Gioacchino T. Studente Universitario Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Come facilitare Python" July 11, 2023 5.0 Essendo studente di Ingegneria Informatica ho installato Anaconda per semplificare di molto la mia esperienza con Python su ambiente Linux. Ottima esperienza e consiglio vivamente l'utilizzo di questa distribuzione. Pros Semplicità nell'implementazione e gestione dei pacchetti Cons Se non sei del campo non sai minimamente a cosa serve Review Source HAHF Haleemath Ath Hara F. Student Computer Software Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Great environment for developers" March 1, 2021 4.0 Anaconda is one of my favorite tools for starting a new coding project. I usually use Jupyter and Spyder notebooks, and they've been easy enough for me to learn even as a beginner, and to extend my code using library support. The premium version has many alluring features, but it can be a tad bit expensive for students and hobby-coders like me. Pros It has a great user interface with support for running multiple environments for your development. The Jupyter and Spyder notebooks are my usual go-tos, and they work really well. Code auto-correction is a lifesaver. I also love the debugging tool, which makes it very easy to find out the bugs in your code. Preloaded libraries, support for multiple languages and environments, support for extended libraries, and simple integration of various tools, makes it a must have for coders. Cons It can be a bit bulky sometimes, slowing down and lagging while you're working on your code. Especially when you are on a low-end system. But everything is saved automatically, so it doesn't ruin your effort, although I'd still love it to be a bit more agile. Review Source Similar Products Featured