What is Bower?
A package manager for web development that handles frameworks, libraries, and assets, using a flat dependency model to avoid duplication and optimize page load performance.
Bower pricing
We don't have Bower's full plan breakdown yet (its pricing page resisted automated reading). Here's what we could confirm. Always check live pricing for exact numbers.
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- CLI
- Windows
Integrations (20)
Independently observed- Grunt
- RequireJS
- Yeoman
- Gulp
- Rails
- CodeKit
- Telerik AppBuilder
- WebStorm
- NetBeans
- Visual Studio
- Alfred
- Brackets
- Pyramid
- CakePHP
- Symfony
- Django
- Flask
- GitHub
- Java
- Less
Security & compliance
Known vulnerabilities: 0 (0 in the last 12 months) sourcea count reflects scale & disclosure, not quality
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The Vioscale score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Bower, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price level | 100 | 0.05 | 5.2 | ✓ |
| Release cadence | 95 | 0.05 | 4.9 | ✓ |
| Dependent projects | 71 | 0.06 | 4.4 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 38 | 0.09 | 3.6 | ✓ |
| Pricing transparency | 25 | 0.08 | 2.1 | ✓ |
| Stars | 79 | 0.03 | 2.0 | ✓ |
| Security score | 39 | 0.04 | 1.6 | ✓ |
| Reliability | 0 | 0.07 | 0.0 | - |
| Capabilities | 0 | 0.08 | 0.0 | - |
| Development activity | 0 | 0.09 | 0.0 | - |
| Security posture | 0 | 0.07 | 0.0 | - |
| Package downloads | 0 | 0.14 | 0.0 | - |
| Developer Q&A activity | 0 | 0.06 | 0.0 | - |
Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.
All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.